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the species collected, closing its meeting by a feast, the principal feature of 
which was the edible i which were the spoil of the day’s “foray.” An 
excursion so singular and so deserving of imitation by similar aT: de- 
serves more lengthened notice than we are in the habit of introducing into our 
pages. Such excursions will certainly bring into notice many species of a 
tribe of plants which are not only extremely fugacious, but also very enigma- 
tical in their appearance. This is evident from the list of species elsewhere 
published. They will also overcome popular prejudices against a wholesome 
and nutritious source of food almost entirely overlooked, and introduce addi- 
tional valuable species to those who already have found out their virtues, as 
will appear from the report of the dinner which follows, and for nes as well 
as that of the excursion, we are indebted to the kindness of Dr. 
The members met at the Mitre Hotel, at 9 o’clock, Friday, hare 9, 1868, 
Holme Lacy Park, accompanied by Mr. Edwin Lees, F.L.S., and Mr. W. G 
Smith, F.L.S. Leaving their conveyance, and entering the grounds of Sir E. 
L. S. S. Stanhope, a beautiful group of the maned Agaric, Coprinus comatus, 
attracted attention. It took almost the form of a circle, though not one of 
those that usually do so. It is ro common and as interesting and handsome 
in appearance as it is good to e t, if people did but know it. The pretty 
crested Agaric, A. cristatus, also a. and A. (Mycena) vulgaris, were next 
gathered, and on a bank under Scoteh fir-trees several specimens of the not 
bunches of the common poisonous A. fascicularis. A flower-bed in the garden 
" a ne erop of Agaricus infundibuliformis in it, and a cluster of Boletus 
was gathered below the terrace walk. This Boletus was also 
seen many times during the da, : 
The Club had a part of their dinner to procure in the park—not in the 
shape of venison from the deer,—but as vegetable beef-steaks from the trees. 
M of Fistulina hepatica, the “liver fun s," or * vegetable 
a as it has been called, were met with—one nearly two feet in dia- 
r, and weighing ten or twelve pounds—on nine t , and had 
eattered about in proper hunting order the bas climbed the hill. 
as “ not found since the days of Bol ^ 
delicate Agaricus prunulus, or ase g s sweetbread,” as it has been 
ed, was met with, together with A. campestris, A. arvensis, and its smaller 
and more delicate variety A. cretaceus, all, of course, edible; and also the 
small puff-ball Lycoperdon gemmatum, the large rough-stemmed Boletus scaber, 
the buff gilled Russula alutacea, the less e 
Agaric, A. procerus. Some others were co 
diigotur. There was the button of an e yn was thought to be a 
brown variety of the Fly Agaric, 4. verruco s, B 
Lactarius subdulcis, A. fumosus, oe sas ae, p baccatus, A. lacrymabundus, 
