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autumn, in sandy soil, on the side of a road about three miles from 

 Kelso. The Club, on a visit to the station, found several speci- 

 mens. 



In the economy of Nature the Hymenomycetes serve to nourish 

 a host of insects and of snails : — " Fungi," saith Linnseus, " magis 

 conveniunt alendis muscis, quam hominibus." But their main pur- 

 pose seems to be the hastening of the decomposition of the organic 

 substances which supply the office of matrix to them, and with which 

 they unite in forming humus or vegetable soil. Ann. N. Hist. ix. 

 p. 293. In the performance of this useful office one species — the 

 Merulius lachrymaus or J3ri)?3tlot — steps often aside to do great dis- 

 service to man. I need not indicate the extent of its destruction in 

 the wood-work of many of our houses and buildings ; but it is seldom 

 that we see the Fungus in its full development, when it is really a 

 beautiful object. 



DiSCOMYCETES. 



Terrene Species. 



Geoglossum hirsutum. 



viride. (1) 



Morchella esculenta. 

 Helvella crispa. 



lacunosa. 



elastica. 



Leotia lubrica. 

 Peziza cochleata. 



acetabulum. (2) 



vesiculosa. 



umbrosa. 



rudis. (3) 



macropus. 



leucoloma. 



humosa. 



hemisphserica. 



Sham-bom Species. 

 Peziza granulata. 



stercorea. 



Lignicolous. 

 Peziza aurantia. 



coccinea. 



scutellata. 



virginea. 



calycina. 



cerinea. 



albo-violascens. 



Schumacheri. 



villosa. 



anomala. (4) 



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Peziza rosse. 

 fusarioides. 



fusca. 



Johnstoni. 



firma. 



fructigena. 



inflexa. 



— — Persoonii. 



campanula. 



aeruginosa. 



citrina. 



pallescens. 



atrata. 



punctata. 



Bulgaria iilquinans. 



sarcoides. 



Tubercularia vulgaris. 



confluens. 



granulata. 



Cenangium ferrugineum . 



quercinum. 



Hysterium pulicare. 



elongatum, ft. 



fraxini. 



conigenum. 



rubi. 



pinastri. 



ft. juniperi. 



culmigenum. 



scirpium. 



Leptostroma vulgare. 



spireeee. 



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