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wet season has greatly favoured this scction of plant-life, thus 
standing in strong contrast with recent dry autumns. There 
was a good muster of members and their friends, eighteen in all, 
taking the walk through the beautiful woods which form the 
upper part of Addington Park, permission to visit the park 
having been kindly given by the present proprietor, F. A. 
English, Esq. Starting from the lodge entrance on Shirley 
Church Road, we first worked eastwards to the obelisk, by the 
Cedar of Lebanon planted in commemoration of the Jubilee of 
George III. Thence we traversed the undulating ground towards 
the western entrance on the Shirley Hills. The woods are 
mainly of birch, with areas of Scotch firs and other conifers, 
fine beeches, mountain ash, sweet chestnut, and oak. The last 
was not largely represented. Everywhere was a thick under- 
growth of bracken. The party was fortunate in obtaining 
thirty-nine species in all, the names of which are appended, as 
identified by Dr. Parsons. to whom they were submitted. The 
four which are starred are less common species and new additions 
to the local series. On the pasture land above the house very 
few were found of any kinds, it being hardly late enough in the 
season for the majority of the pasture-frequenting species, and 
not a single mushroom was seen. But the woodlands made full 
compensation, giving an abundance of specimens, as well as 
species such as one seldom sees. In one part the ground beneath 
the bracken was thick with the handsome yellow edible chanterelle, 
many specimens being of unusual proportions. ‘This latter point 
was true also of several other species, as Boletus edulis and Poly- 
porus betulinus, the latter of which was plentiful on birch trees. 
Fungi found at Addington Park, September 12th, 1903 :— 
Agaricus (Amanita) rubescens, A. (Amanita) phalloides, A. 
(Amanita) vaginatus, *A. (Amanita) pantherinus, A. (Tricholoma) 
terreus, A. (Clitocybe) laccatus, *A.(Collybia) maculatus, A. (Mycena) 
galericulatus, A. (Stropharia) eruginosus, A. (Hypholoma) fascicu- 
laris, A. (Psilocybe) semilanceatus, A. (Psilocybe) spadiceus, Cortt- 
narius elatior, Hygrophorus psittacinus, Cantharellus cibarius, - 
Lactarius turpis, L. subdulcis, L. pyrogalus, L. rufus, L. vellereus, 
Russula emetica, R. virescens, Marasmius peronatus, *“Lentinus 
cochleatus, Boletus edulis, B. flavus, *B. fellews, Polyporus betulinus, 
P. annosus, P. versicolor, P. vaporarius, Thelephora laciniata, 
Stereum hirsutum, Corticiwm leve, Clavaria inequalis, Calocera vis- 
cosa, Phallus impudicus, Scleroderma vulgare, Lycoperdon pusillum. 
Eventnc MEEtiInGs. 
March 17th.—Reading of Meteorological and Botanical Com- 
mittees’ Reports. 
April 21st.—Mr. L. N. G. Filon, M.A,, D.Sc., on ‘* Comets.’’ 
(See Trans., Art. 1.) 
