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growing on the underside of a half buried piece of rotten 

 pine. 



*92. Lycogala flavofuscum Rost. On the southern side of an 

 immense elm tree, among the little shoots at the base, the pale 

 pink Plasmodium of this species could be seen oozing out, 

 during the third week of September in spite of nine months 

 of phenomenal drought. It later matured into five large healthy 

 aethalia, very inconspicuous against the silver grey bark of the 

 tree. The following year, almost day for day, another group 

 appeared, no longer on the living bole but inside an old hollow 

 stump full of touch wood. 



93. L. epidendrum Fr. A very common and attractive species 

 and one of the earliest to be found. If the weather be not too 

 dry it may be seen any time between March and October on 

 decayed wood of lime, poplar, pine, chestnut, alder, etc. 



*94. Trichia verrucosa Berk, has only twice been obtained in 

 Surrey ; at Oxshott in October 1904 and at Weybridge in March 

 192 1. In each case it was on fir wood; the March specimens 

 consisted of some thirty sessile sporangia, closely clustered and 

 very suggestive of T. favoginea; but the granular deposits on 

 the sporangial wall, the slender elaters and smaller meshes of 

 the spore net, put the identification beyond a doubt. 



95. T. affinis de Bary though common all the year round, is 

 more plentiful in early spring and autumn on lime and poplar 

 wood. " Hemitrichia " forms, collected after the first frosts had 

 started in November, showed considerable variety in spore and 

 capillitium. One had a denser network and thick-walled elaters, 

 another extremely thick-walled elaters with a more constant 

 series of spiral bands. The thicker elater was darker and browner 

 than the thinner one. The reticulation of the spore though 

 typical was traced out by very slender and shallow bands. 



96. T. persimilis Karst. is more common even than the 

 last. Some years it has been so abundant that one could be sure 

 of finding it on every lime log one examined. 



97. T. scabra Rost. This is more of a winter species and is 

 of frequent occurrence throughout the county from October 

 to March, especially on the wood of lime, poplar and oak. 



98. T. varia Pers. In keeping with the specific name of this 

 most common species one occasionally comes across some very 

 strange forms. Not unfrequently the elaters have a double 

 point at the end. I have seen some that branched acutely like 

 a clothes peg, others with two prongs at right angles or again 

 with a rounded end and two little growths like ears. In one 

 case even some of the spores had wing-like appendages. 



99. T. contorta Rost. has been found at Reigate and Wey- 

 bridge on the bark of an overturned white poplar. It is not so 



