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The following are the botanical characters of this fungus : — 



CORTINAEItrS (PHIiEGMACIUM) ETTSSTTS. Fr. 



(See Frontispiece. J 



Pileus— Fleshy, convex, then flattened, obtuse, viscid, glabrous at the 

 disc, fibrous at the margin, brittle, uniformly red. Veil— temlei, fugacious. 



(?t7?s— Obtusely adnate, scarcely perceptably rounded, or with a slight 

 decurrent tooth, crowded, veined, of a red peroxide of iron coloor, similar to the 

 pUeus. 



Stem — Stuffed, then hollow, not bulbous, often curvato-ascending, soft 

 streaked with fine sUky fibres, somewhat pruinose at the apex. Flavour, not 

 bitter but nauseous. 



Spores— Brown, •00032' x -0002.' 



Explanation of Plate (the Frontispiece). — Fig. 1 and 2, Cortinariiis 

 (Phhgmacium) russus. Fig. 3, section of ditto. Fig. 4, spores x 700 diameters. 



It grows solitarily or in patches in Herefordshire woods, and has been 

 gathered several times in Hey wood Forest and Dinedor "Wood, near Heieford. 



The President then introduced the question of the formation of a museum 

 in connection -nith the Club, and after a long discussion, in which many members 

 joined, the following resolution was passed — "That the "Woolhope Naturalists' 

 Field Club deems it expedient that a committee be appointed to inquire into 

 the practicability of establishing a museum j" and tlie following gentlemen were 

 unanimously appointed to it :— Eev. H. Coop.T Key, president, Sii George H, 

 Comewall, Bart., James Bankia, Esq., Dr. M'Cullough, Arthur Armitage, Esq., 

 the Kev, C, J, Bobinson, and James Davies, Esq. 



The first paper presented to the meeting was — 



