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in Kotherwas wood ; Tricholoma sejunctus, sulfurens, and resplendens were 

 found at Whitfield and Vennwood, the last fungus new this year to Britain, 

 but fovmd also in Essex, in Middlesex, and Berkshire, Theloijhora Sowerbei, 

 Mycena rosellus, and SLstotrema confluens, all very rate plants, were 

 gathered for the first time in Herefordshire last year. Mrs. Key had brought 

 to the e.\hibition Gomphidius maculatus from the lawTi of Strettin Sugwas. 

 So far as is recorded, it was the first time it had been found in Britain ; for, 

 although it is figured in Berkeley's " Outlines," it was figured by mistake for 

 gracilis. Another fungus, and one altogether new to science, was the Hy- 

 grophorus Houghtoni, discovered by Mr. Houghton on the Wrekin just after 

 our meeting, and then found in a meadow below Dinedor, and on the 

 Blorenge, at Abergavenny. Mr. Berkeley having convinced himself that it 

 had never yet been described, named it after the discoverer. The next plant, 

 tew to England, and the most brilliant novelty of the year, was Cortinarius 

 cinnabarinus, discovered by our friend Mr. Eenny, on the Downton Slope. 

 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 — indeed, the 

 most luminous scarlet vermillion pales before it. The plant was exhibited here 

 last year. There is still one other addition that Herefordshire made last year 

 to the British flora, and that was Agaricus aureus, and one of the most noble 

 plants of the order. It was found by Mr. Eenny growing in twogrand clusters in 

 the fir plantation near the Roman Catholic Chiirch at Belmont. There were 

 four or five plants in each group, the largest nearly a foot high, and measuring 

 eleven inches across the pileus. Its colour was a golden buff, with a soft rich 

 tone over it quite peculiar to itself. Thus Herefordshire, thanks to Mr. 

 Kenny, made the two most striking additions of the year to the British flora. 

 [Water-coloiu-ed sketches of these several funguses were sent round the tables 

 for examination, and were much admired.] And what shall we do this year, 

 you ask ? Good work, I have no doubt, though such great prizes must not 

 always be looked for. He had an inkling of some new things, but all he 

 would tell them was that if they came to the conversazione to which Mr. 

 Cam had so kindly invited them that evening, they should see plants that few 

 eyes had before looked upon, for if they had ever been found before they 

 had never been recorded. The next subject he had to mention to them was 

 a suggestion which had been made to him by Mr. Edvrin Lees, the President 

 of the Malvern Naturalists' Field Club. He had written to him when he 

 thought that he could not be here himself, and thus he would read it to 

 them : " It is very remarkable," says Mr. Lees, " that every autumn there 

 are accounts of deaths from eating poisonous funguses taken for mushrooms, 

 or else mushrooms ia a bad state. This wants looking into in a more popular 

 way than has yet been done. I mean by a cheap pamphlet, with wood-cut 

 illustrations, that members of Naturalists' Clubs might distribute among 

 rural folk or the poor in towns, for it is generally some of the lower classes 

 that get ill or poisoned by eating funguses and not getting relief in time. 



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