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not damp the pleasure of its discovery. Ptziaa cupuluris, L., and the rare 

 Te-.iza succosa, Berk. , were also f onnd in Vennwood on the same day. 



Another find, and of a species altogether new, was Hygrophorus Hovigh- 

 tmii, Berk. This plant was first found this autumn by the Rev. William 

 Houghton, M.A., on the Wrekin, and named after its discoverer by Mr. 

 Berkeley. This agaric has also appeared suddenly in several places at the 

 same time, viz., in North Wales, on the Bloreijge at Abergavenny, and also 

 on Dinedor Common, near Hereford. 



There is still one other addition that Herefordshire makes this year to the 

 British Flora, and that is Ag. (Pholiota) Aureus, Ft., and it is the grandest of 

 aU. As Cortinarius cinnabarinus is the most brilliant, so Ag. Aureus is cer- 

 tainly the most noble plant. It was found by Mr. Renny in a fir- wood near 

 the Roman Catholic Church at Clehonger, near Hereford, gi-owing in two grand 

 groups, each consisting of four or five plants. The largest agaric was nearly 

 a foot high, and measured 11 inches across the pileus. Its colour was a golden 

 buff with a soft rich tone over it. The ring was large, mealy, and striated, 

 enveloping a very thick and beautifully granulated and tuberculated stem. 

 The groups were growing in long grass on a stiff clay soil in a hollow space 

 left by the removal of a tree, and near some fine young Deodar cedars. This 

 plant is 80 distinct from the continental varieties of Aureus that it has been 

 named var Hcrefordensis. 



Close by and almost imderneath these fine plants was also found the very 

 interesting agaric, Ag. (Collybia) cirrhatus, Schum. This delicate little 

 fungus is also very rare, and with the exception of Mr. Berkeley and Mr. 

 Worthington G. Smith, none of our English fungologists have met with it. 

 It is similar in habit to Ag. (CoUybia) tuherosus already named, and like it, 

 grows from a selerotium. They are, however, very distinct plants. Tuberosus 

 is more umbonate and altogether more graceful in form, more firm in texture, 

 and springs from a narrow oblong tuber, which has a thick dark brown cuticle. 

 The pileus of CirrJiatus is more fragile, striate, and umbUicate when fuUy 

 expanded. It springs from a tuber more irregular in shape, nodvdar, rounded, 

 and pale yellow in colour. These, too, were buried nearly half an inch in 

 the stiff clay soil. The stem of Cirrhatus, too, throws out strong fibrous 

 rootlets on all sides, which is not the case with tuberosus. 



There are some other agarics that might also be mentioned, as the rare 

 sessile Marasmins spodoleiicus, B. and Br., foiuid in some abundance on a 

 lifeless pollard Ash in Rotherwas Wood ; Ag. (Pholiota) LevciUiamts, D. and 

 M., found by Mr. Renny on Chiwcb HiU, Leintwardine ; but enougli has 

 been said to prove that the following list is an interesting one, and that 

 the Woolhope Forays of 1873, if made under difficulties, were yet singularly 

 successful. 



Amanita. Ag. phalloides, Fr. 



Ag. vaginatus, BuU. „ muscarius, L. 



,, Ceriliifj B. d- Pr. ,, rubesceus, /". 



