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the generic names are. Unfortunately for the two genera, certain species belong- 

 ing to one or other, are also so much alike in character and habit that it is almost 

 impossible to refer them with certainty to one or the other ; and, to make matters 

 worse, the Craterellus of one book is often the Cantherellus of another. Mr. 

 English, of Epping, .sent Sistotrema confluens, Telephora multizonata cristata and 

 sebacea ; on the table we noticed Lenzites sepiaria, Polyporus nummularius, P. 

 Schweinitzii, P. ribes, P. sanguineus from South America (Mr. Percival), Cyno- 

 phallus caninus, Peziza auricolor, P. corium, a large, handsome jet-black plant, 

 brought from King's Lynn, by Mr. Plowright ; Agaricus ])hlebophorus, A. inaniie- 

 nus, Lycoperdon saccatum, Telephora caryophyllea, and many others. As regards 

 hybridian and cross species in fungi, it is worthy of note that a plant was exhibited 

 exactly intermediate between Helvella laconosa and H. crispa ; the plant in 

 question had the black and somewhat plain pileus of the former, and the larger 

 growth, and snow-white, deeply-ribbed, and hollow stem of the latter. As regards 

 the fungus of the jwtato disease, Mr. Broome stated that he had repeated his 

 experiment this year, with potato leaves infected by the Peronospora, by placing 

 them in water ; in a week's time the leaves were again completely filled with 

 resting-spores. Mr. Bicknell mentioned a curious fact in regard to Boletus scaber. 

 He stated that he had recently seen about 10,000 specimens, growing in groups or 

 masses, all within a quarter of a square mile, on Gray Common, near Chiselhurst. 

 It is usual to see the plant in single specimens only. There was an exhibition of 

 apples and pears at the same time with the fungi, and the specimens were so 

 numerous that they filled a second room downstairs, and some were even placed 

 upon the floor. There were more than 3,000 specimens exhibited. 



All the fungus men met at Dr. Bull's house for the last time on Friday 

 evening, October 5th, when M. Maxime Cornu exhibited a series of drawings 

 and plates (at present unpublished), illustrative of the life history of the Phyllox- 

 era and its ravages upon the Vine. M. Cornu explained the illustrations in detail, 

 and all present agreed that the drawings were the most highly finished, elaborate, 

 and exhaustive illustrations they had ever .seen. Dr. Cooke exhibited drawings 

 of Agarics, and some of larger fungi ; Mrs. Chapman showed a series of boldly 

 executed and richly coloured drawings of fungi, many having been made in France 

 and Switzerland ; and the writer showed a drawing of Agaricus campestris, with 

 traces of a volva. 



FAREWELL ! 



The French visitors and some others left Hereford by an early train on 

 Saturday, several Woolhopeans being on the platform to see them off, and by 

 mid-day all the fungus visitors had left the place. The 1877 meeting was the 

 tenth, and though funguses had been uncommonly scarce in number all through 

 the autumn, yet the 1877 meeting will always be remembered as in every way the 

 most pleasant and successful of the entire series, on account of the additions made 

 to the flora, the importance and newness of the papers read, and the thoroughly 

 enjoyable naturejof the excursions and meetings. — W. G. Smith, in the Gardeners' 

 Chronicle. 



