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Polyporus salignus. At foot of an old Apple-tree in my own garden, 
where, after being cut away, it reappears in a year or two. 
Polyporus fracineus. Growing up the foot of a post, in the lane 
beyond Dunspits Farm. 
Peziza (Sarcoscypha) radiculata. Barrow-well Lane, on the bare 
earth, in December. 
Amongst the numerous species which the neighbourhood affords, I 
may specify, as found at other times :— 
Agaricus (Clitocybe) opacus. 
A. (Clitocybe) inversus. 
A. (Pleurotus) euosmus. 
A. (Coprinus) Hendersonii. This I have only seen once, on horse- 
dung, in Crackley Wood. 
Hygrophorus calyptraformis. 
Lactarius glyciosmus. 
Russula rosacea. 
Craterellus cornucopioides. Found by a friend in Crackley Wood. 
On seeing Mr. W. G. Smith's figure of Morchella crassipes in the 
January number, my delight was great at the clearing up of what has 
long been a great puzzle to me, viz. the discrepancy between most of 
the figures of Morchella esculenta that have come under my notice 
(especially the one in Mr. Berkeley’s ‘ Outlines of British Fungology ’) 
and the specimens of that species, as I supposed, gathered by me at 
different times in the damp, mossy shrubbery of Wick House, between 
Bristol and Brislington. I felt certain that my plant must be Mr. 
Smith's M. crassipes. The figure is precisely it, only I never found 
any specimen quite so large as the one which he has drawn. 
Anna RUSSELL. 
Clarendon Villa, Kenilworth, February 6th, 1868. 
HENNA IN CHINA. 
Lawsonia alba is a common shrub of cultivation in Kwangtung, 
