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of the lovely Peziza Aurantia (84 inches across)—sent from Shobdon by Lord 
Bateman. Mr. Houghton exhibited from the fir plantations of Chetwynd Park, 
where he has found them year after year—failing last year only—a good specimen 
of Sparussis crispa. Dr. Chapman contributed from the pastures about Hereford 
a magnificent group of Ag. (Volvaria) Gloiocepholus, each agaric being ten inches 
high, with pilea 17 or 18 inches in circumference. The odour of them is not nice. 
Near these also was Agaricus Junonius. Mr. Berkeley had sent Leotia circinans, 
received by him from Scotland; and from Abergavenny Dr. Mc.Cullough had 
brought Lactarius controversus, on which he alighted the next day growing, ab- 
normally we should say, under a Lombardy poplar. Radulum Fagineum, Lac- 
tarius Vitellinus—which Mr. Worthington Smith declines to recommend as edible, 
however fond of veal some non-Woolhopians may be—and one or two other some- 
what rare plants excited and satisfied curiosity. Amongst exceptional contribu- 
tions to the Fungus Exhibition were a fresh water sponge from the River Teme, 
sent by the Messrs. Fortey, and some gigantic rhizomes of the water lily, brought 
by Mr. William Phillips. Amidst this class—had it not miscarried—would have 
been exhibited a splendid box of the choicest pears of English growth, sent to the 
President by Mr. Richard Doddridge Blackmore, M.A., of Exeter College, 
Oxford, poet, novelist, and market gardener. They might have taught the 
visitors to the Green Dragon to discriminate between the Beurries and the Doy- 
ennes, Louise Bonnes and Marie Louise—and distracted the lovers of fungus forms 
by the weightier claims of pomology. But, though sent to Reading, carriage 
paid, on the 28th of September, they did not reach the President’s post town, 
Kington, till the 6th of October, so that they never reached the show, and the 
President bids us say that all who would discuss their merits must come to Moor 
Court, and be quick about it, as they are inclining to that condition which gives 
its name to the Pyriodorus, above mentioned. The feast, and the soirée which 
followed it, were as successful and cheery as their predecessors ; and what, between 
the presence of ladies and the festive board, an unanimous delight in the un- 
feigned surprise of Mr. Worthington Smith at the recognition of his constant 
services, a pleasant memory will long invest the evening of the 1st of October, 
1874, 
