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It may be noticed generally, as the effect of a very dry season up to three 
or four weeks ago, that many tribes of funguses, such as the Boleti, were almost 
absent. Still B. Laricinus, only known within the last few years, was very 
abundant. B. elegans and B. fragrans, too, were beginning to appear. The very 
common 4g. fascicularis was scarcely to be seen, though its intimate relation, 
sublateritius, was frequent enough. Waucoria cucumis was very common, as also, 
even more, was the curious Hygrophorus cossus. In many places visited during 
the week this was noticeable with its odd and goatlike smell, amongst others in 
an orchard at Stoke Edith, near the station, where a ring of it was found some 
eight feet in diameter. Then, again, the great scarcity of all the tree polypores 
was remarkable, so much so, as, with the other absences we have referred to, to 
demonstrate the unusual unproductiveness of the season, in a mycological point 
of view, arising out of the impossibility of mycelium growth taking place in 
such very dry weather. 
Some such train of thought was passing through at least one mind, out of 
the thirteen or fourteen that visited Garnstone Park, when a summons to return 
to the mansion interrupted it. Here a handsome lunch-dinner had been provided, 
to which, after they had inspected some admirable photographs executed by 
Major Peploe, the mycologists did thorough justice. It need not be said that 
they left Garnstone, between five and six p.m., with thanks on their lips and 
good will in their hearts towards their courteous host, who had done everything 
in his power to make the remembrance of their visit a pleasant one. As the coach 
drove off in one direction towards Hereford, with a lighter freight, yet not with 
lightened cheer, the President and Mr. Worthington Smith took their way, in the 
carriage of the former. towards Moor Court, the best friends finding it a neces- 
sity to part sooner or later. This necessity was felt more widely on the morrow, 
when the Woolhopians and their guests mostly dispersed for their respective 
homes. 
(Saturday Review. ) 
A Day with THE Funeus Hvunters.—Another fungus feast, and no 
casualties! Once more have the mycologists, indigenous and other, hunted and. 
harried the woods, fir-grooves and pastures of Herefordshire in pursuit of game, 
which squires do not care to preserve, and to which farmers do not raise the 
faintest objection. Once more have they returned towards dusk to the ‘‘ faithful 
city,” bearing bags and baskets filled with spoil destined to give variety to more 
than one cuisine. So far as the adoption of the study of mycology, as a special 
feature of the Woolhope Field Club transactions, tended in six years to 
‘‘ Ttalianize ” the tastes of diners-out in the matter of fungi, that we believe the 
excellence of a “‘ Lycoperdon” fritter might be avouched by the highest ecclesi- 
astical dignitaries; and, unless our eyes deceived us, the High Sheriff of the 
county of Hereford could certify the goodness of ‘‘Comatus” soup. It is not of 
course contended that among the results of the forays which made the woods of 
