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Prosser, Esq., a foray was made in the beautiful 'grounds of Belmont, 

 where Licea applanata, Peziza succosa, Hydrum alutaeeum, Geoglossum 

 \'iscosum, and Typhula erythropus, met the quick eyes in search of them, 

 though the chief prize of this foray ("give us your hand old fellow") was 

 made by Mr. Plowright ; to wit, the rare and local Marasmius Hudson?, 

 growing on faUen hoUy leaves. It is an elegant little agaric studded all 

 over with delicate purple spines. On their retiu-n to Hereford the guests 

 of the Club were hospitably entertained by Dr. Bull. 



On Thursday— the general field-day of the Club — though the weather 

 was unpromising, a fair number of town and country Woolhopians gathered 

 to Barr's Court Station at 9.45 a.m., and took train with the President and 

 the guests of the Club for Holm Lacy Station. The railway authorities had 

 made the excursion cheap and convenient ; and Mr. H. Scudamore Stanhope 

 had left nothing undone to make it a rare treat to the lovers of horticulture 

 and arboriculture, as well as of mycology. Though himself unavoidably 

 absent, Mr. Stanhope had placed his head gardener at the service of the 

 Clnb, to show them the diverse beauties of the trimly-kept gardens and 

 grounds, of which — to say nothing of many curious deciduous and evergreen 

 trees — the clean-clipt yew hedges are a conspicuous feature. It was too late 

 In the year to see the effect of the tasteful arrangement of the flowers, to 

 harmonise with and not ignore and disown these old-world topiary triumphs, 

 as also to realise the success of a cordon pear-waU, of which the abundant 

 fi-uit had been gathered. But within the precincts of these charming gardens 

 every lawn and slope was rich with dainty fungological treasures. Here Mr. 

 Berkeley quickly found Geoglossum glabrum, G. Olivacenm, and G. difforme. 

 Mr. Brooke gathered Clavaria curta under the yew trees — the elegant little 

 Agaricus (Mycena) flavo-albus ; ag. (Pleurotus) tremulus and applicatus ; ag. 

 cunifolius ; ag. corticolor ; Anthrna flammea ; Pistillaria quisquillaris, &c, 

 Mr. Vyse detected Puccinia strioli gi'owing on Carex ; and there were many 

 other discoveries. The mycological successes of the day, however, was a 

 species of Nolanea and Hygrophorus fornicatus, both new to Britain. The 

 Hygrophorus grew also on the Moccas Park lawn. There should have been 

 a general hand-shaking here, but a shower of rain, though it lessened not the 

 joy and enthusiasm at finding these treasures, dispersed the naturalists rather 

 summarily. Not, however, before a goodly number of them had inspected 

 the magnificent oaks of the Park, the gigantic denizens of Price's Walk, 

 and the Holm Lacy WeUingtonia described by the Woolhope Commissioner 

 in the Transactions of 1870. Several arboricultural curiosities — among them 

 an American scarlet oak — were noticed by the club, despite the rain, which 

 somewhat interfered with leisurely contemplation ; but no member of the 

 IDarty deemed his outing a failure when, at 2.40, the express stopped abnor- 

 mally at the Holm Lacy Station, and took the Club back to Hereford. 



Here, while the general company examined and discussed the exhibition 

 of fungi in the Green Dragon Assembly room, the Committee of the Wool 



