130 ON SOME OF THE LARGER AND RARER 
in succession in exactly the same place in a meadow near London, and 
we have remarked Helvella crispa in a lane near Dunstable, appearing 
in the early autumn of every year; with the greatest regularity it 
steadily advances up the lane, further and further each year, after the 
manner of Marasmius oreades and other fungi, the mycelium evidently 
exhausting the soil annually; it grows in a manner analogous to the 
fairy-rings of our downs and meadows. 
During the past year, we have paid more than usual attention to the 
larger fungi, their occurrence, their habitats, and their seasons, and 
with the assistance of at least two very kind friends interested in these 
plants, Mrs. Gulson, of Eastcliff, near Teignmouth, Devon, and Miss 
Lott, of Barton Hall, Kingskerswell, near Newton Abbot, also in Devon, 
we are enabled to give a very interesting list of the principal species 
gathered and noted during 1865. Without doubt the plant that 
should take the first place in this list is Agaricus (Tricholoma) albellus, 
a single specimen only of which we found at the base of a Beech-tree 
in an avenue of old Beeches in Thorsby Park, near Ollerton, Notts, in 
the beginning of September. This is the first and only record of its 
appearance in this country since the time of Sowerby, who considered 
it rare, and only found it twice, it is figured in one of his volumes 
devoted to British fungi, plate cxxii. In Mr. Cooke’s ‘Index Fun- 
gorum Britannicorum,’ it is given as a doubtful or extinct species. 
Its general appearance would certainly warrant one in first imagining 
it to be merely an abnormal growth of some other plant belonging 
to the group Tricholoma. Our specimen, given in Plate XLVI. 
Fig. 4, appears to be altogether more robust and characteristic than ` 
Sowerby's, and parts indefinite or indicated only in the latter, are in 
this specimen fully and boldly brought out. In addition to the 
description given by the Rev. M. J. Berkeley, in his ‘ Outlines of 
British Fungology,’ we may say the stem in the fresh plant has a 
slight inclination to be silky outside, becoming ultimately stuffed or 
inclined to hollow, whilst the word ** mottled " would give a better idea 
of the pileus than “ spotted after the fashion of scales; this part of 
the plant, as may be seen in Fig. 5, is very conical and fleshy. 
The most interesting plant after Agaricus albellus is Boletus cyanes- 
cens, a single specimen of which was found by Miss Lott, at Kings- 
kerswell, in the middle of September; this solitary specimen agreed in 
the most minute et ee Oe 
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