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A(f. {C<A\.yh\x) (Uraiu», Fr., in companionship with CanthjartUus radkosv.s. 

 B. and Br., has been found for two seasons in the charking places in Merry- 

 hill copse. Though very distinct, they yet singularly resemble each other in 

 general aspect — a fungological parallel to those more frequent resemblances in 

 insect life between some different species of Dipterae and Hjrmenoptera;. 



Ag. (Collybia) tuberomis, BulL an elegant little agaric, with a regularity 

 of contour and fineness of giH-engra\dng almost imique. It was found in con- 

 siderable abundance in Brockhall copse. Its curious mode of growth from a 

 tuber or selerotium, as it is called, gives it a peculiar interest. These tubers 

 are supposed to consist of a concretion of mycelium, formed when the sjiores 

 fall on a decaying fungus. Russula, Lactarius, &c., in a previous season. Their 

 life history seems to call for further study. 



Ay. (Mycena) rosellus, Fr., a small but especially beautiful agaric, was 

 found this year in Dinedor fir wood for the first time. It must be rare, or it 

 would be more frequently found, .since its clear rose colour at once attracts 

 attention. Another Dinedor plant which seems to like a damp season was 

 Ag. (Pholiota) radicosus, Fr., for it was much more abundant this year than 

 last. 



Ag. (Naucoria) cucumis. P., a very local plant, was found on the railway 

 bank in Rotherwas Wood. Its odour here is certainly strong, but it resem- 

 bles rather train oil, rancid fish, or the smell of a blown-out tallow candle, 

 than the pleasant refreshing odour of cucumber, from which it has received 

 its specific name. 



Herefordshire has also produced tliis season a most striking novelty in 

 Cortinarius cinnaharinus, Fr., wliich was found by Mr. Renny growing very 

 freely at Downton. It is a small agaric growing singly, or in crowded 

 clusters, but its tint is so gorgeous and refulgent as to defy water-colours to 

 reproduce — the most luminous scarlet-vermillion pales before it. It is beyond 

 question the most brilliant addition of the year to the British Mycological 

 Flora. 



Thelcpliora Sojowiei, Berk., a plant which has not been found for some 

 quarter of a century, has appeared this year in two distant parts of the 

 county — at Vennwood and at Whitfield. It was sent to the South Kensing- 

 ton Exhibition, and created much interest there. 



Gomphidius maculatus, Fr., is also a new addition to the British Flora 

 from Herefordshire. It was foimd by Mrs. Cooper Key on the lawn at the 

 Rectory, Stretton Sugwas, near Hereford. It is curious that this graceful 

 plant was figured in Mr. Berkeley's " Outlines of British Fungi " by mistake, as 

 he afterwards found out, and therefore its discovery at Stretton for the first 

 time makes it undoubtedly British. 



Sistotrema covfluens, Fr., a plant so rare that few British botanists have 

 seen it in a fre.«h condition, was found at Vennwood. It is perhaps more in 

 be valued for its rarity than for its Ijcauty, and all the rain that fell could 



