^P FEND IX. 



THE FORAY AMONG THE FUNGUSES. 

 T0ESDAY, October lOth, 1871. 



The last Field Meeting of the year was held on Tuesday last. The attendance- 

 waa numerous, the weather was beautiful, the scenery of the district selected 

 for the hunt was very fine, yet, above and beyond all for the object of the 

 day's excursion, Funguses were abundant. 



The sun shone brilliantly as the visitors left the Dinmore Station to wend 

 their way up the hUl to the tower on the top, but the admiration of the varied 

 foliage tints was quickly exchanged for that of the forms and colouration of the 

 Funguses met with. The scarlet tints of Hygrophorus coccineus, Peziza aurantia, 

 and Ag, (Ammonita) muscarius ; the amythist and purpl« variety of Ag. laccatus ; 

 the large white Lactarius velUreus, the delicate Hygrophorus cossus, and Clavaria 

 vermiculata ; the yellow wax-Hie Hygrophorus ceraceus ; and hundreds of others 

 in shades of yellow, brown, and black, mixed by Nature's art, with many a vari«d 

 grace of form and texture. 



Meantime the way led on, and whether it was due to the many attentions the 

 Funguses offered, or to that old sad habit of keeping too long to the broad and 

 easy path, the visitors found themselves oh the turnpike-road to Leominster, 

 without a sight of the tower. Away through the wood, side tracks were taken, 

 and the baskets meanwhile were getting rapidly filled with the spolia of the day. 

 In the hunt for the tower, which conceals itself wonderfiilly well in the woods of 

 this wide-backed undulating hUl, some found it, and some didn't, and the presi- 

 dent was amongst the unfortunate ; and so it came to pass that the business 

 of the Club was transacted under the beech trees at the far side. 



The following gentlemen were elected unanimously as the office bearers for the 

 year 1872 :— 



President: Elmes Y. Steel, Esq., Abergavenny. 



Vice-Presidents: Dr. McCullough, Abergavenny; J. GriflSth Morris, Esq., 

 Hereford; James Kankin, Esq., M.A., Bryngwyn, Hereford; the Kev. T. 

 Thistlethwaite Smith, Thruxton, Hereford, 



