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R. oehroleuea Fr. (Gr., yellow and white). 



Pileus yellow ; gills white ; common in woods. 

 Plantation S. of Daggon's Road Station. Furze 

 Common Copse. Great Down Copse.' 

 R. foetens Fr. (Lat., stinking). 



Reputed poisonous ; said to be common. 

 Seen only in Furze Common Copse. 

 R. emetica Fr. (Lat., making sick). 



In woods, chiefly beech ; poisonous ; said 

 to be frequent. Belt on E. side of St. Giles' 

 Park. Holt Wood. 

 R. fragilis Fr. (Lat., easily broken). 



In woods, common ; like the last, but smaller, 

 more fragile ; poisonous. Castle Hill Wood. 

 Great Down Copse. Sutton Holms. Var. 

 violacea Ruelet. Pileus bright violet, with a 

 whitish margin. Castle Hill Wood Ferndown. 

 Witchampton. 



Genus 15. CANTHARELLUS Adans. (Gr. kantharos, a 

 sort of drinking-cup, from the shape of some species). 

 Gills decurrent, narrow, forking, margin thick. 

 C. cibarius Fr. (Lat., fit for food). 



Reported as common in woods ; egg yellow 

 in colour ; edible. Birches Copse. Furze 

 Common Copse and one or two other woods in 

 Edmondsham. 

 C. aurantiacus Fr. (Lat., of orange colour). 



Under fir-trees in woods ; bright orange : 

 reputed poisonous ; common. Branksome Park. 

 Broadstone. Colehill. Plantation S. of Daggon's 

 Road Station. Furze Common Copse. 

 C. tubaeformis Fr. (Lat., trumpet-shaped). 



In woods on the ground and on rotten wood ; 

 yellowish-brown above, gills smoky-yellow ; not 

 very common. Castle Hill Wood. Plantation 

 S. of Daggon's Road Station. 



