FUNGUS FORAYS IN 1883. 5 
were planned for the four succeeding days. A detailed account 
was published in the Gardeners’ Chronicle for October 13th. The 
general impression was certainly that in the neighbourhood of Here- 
ford, as well as in some other localities in Britain, the present was 
by no means a prolific year for fungi. From the North it has been 
reported that at one time the quantity observed was quite equal, if 
not above the average. In the New Forest this also seemed to be 
the case ; whilst in Cornwall the number was declared to be less 
than had been known for many years, and in many parts of the 
Eastern counties the same complaints were made. In Warwick- 
shire, as far as we could judge, the number both of species and 
individuals was unusually small. In Epping Forest we have seen 
during the past Autumn fewer fungi than we have observed for 
many years. Hence we infer that though the general character of 
the year in England was unfavourable to the production of a good 
crop of fungi, there were in a few localities as many as are usually 
to be found in an excellent year. Fungi would seem to obey no 
law, or if they do, some law which is at present inexplicable to us, 
since in one place they have been scarce, and in another plentiful, 
at the same time. 
The character of the Fungus flora around Hereford seemed to 
be rather marked by the occurrence of numerous species of Cordz- 
narius, and at the same time Epping Forest, which usually furnishes 
several species in considerable numbers, yielded this year only here 
and there a solitary specimen. 
Of the specimens found around Hereford, the following is an 
approximate list :— 
Cortinarius ete) . triumphans, 77. 
Cort. +, clarieolor,) 77 
Corks. ; : . sebaceus, /7. 
Gorka |i, ‘ : “varius, 772 
Cork). : . . cyanopus, /7. 
Corts! : : . anfractus, 77. 
Cont) : ; . multiformis, 7” 
Corts. ; 3 . glaucopus, 7” 
Cont &; . : . calochrous, 7. 
Cores . d : . fulgens, #7 
Cort. . fulmineus, 2”. 
Cortinarius (Myx). . elatior, J”. 
Core =. . mucifluus, 77. 
Gores . Riederi, /7. 
Cortinarius (Ino. ie . albo-violaceus, 77. 
Contr 2 s . 2) bullardy 7 
Cor. . pholideus, 47. 
Cortinarius (Derm.) . ochroleucus, 7. 
Wort. : : . caninus, /7. 
