FLORA OF Mt:NAJ5S ISLAND, HALIFAX, N. S. BARUOUK. 5(39 



AiKitlier iii^^tance: I was passing some bunches or iris leaves, 

 the ^•eills of which are usually purplish iu colour. Close to, iu 

 fact touching, them was a stump of what looked to be the 

 remains of another bunch of leaves. I knocked it with my foot 

 and foimd it was the stipe and partially unopened cap of a 

 toadstool. The purple of the latter was exactly the same as the 

 former. 



So have I seen orange-yellow coloured ones growing close 

 to the yellow loosestrife, brioht red ones amono- the red bunch- 

 berries, perfectly white ones near the Indian ]npe, and so alike 

 were they that they could not be distinguished till you were 

 right upon them. Little, tiny white specks of toadstools among 

 the moss, near Avhere other little white flowers abound; 

 variegated near where variation in many colours abound. 



Of course many occur in situations quite independent of 

 such conditions, but a certain number do find their habitat 

 according to the above, and many other instances I have not 

 noted. 



Pkoc. & Traxs. X. S. IxsT. Sci., Vol. XL Trans. LL. 



