t)f the. neighbourliood of Bristol. 251 



No. 1. In woods, glueing fallen leaves together in masses. 

 Stercoris humani olet. 



Clavana pistillaris, Linn. Very rare. Nightingale Valley. 



CI. amethystina, Bull. In a copse opposite the Black Horse on the 

 road to Aust Passage. A very large specimen. 



Geoglossum glahrum, Pers. This present autumn. Dardham Down. 



Helvetia crispa and lacunosa. Stapleton Grove. 



H. elastica. Bull, Under trees. Stapleton, autumn. 



Peziza reticulata, Grev. On the ground in various woods about 

 Bristol ; by no means rare with us. It is one of the earliest 

 fungi, appearing in February. The odour resembles that of 

 chlorine. Before Mr. Berkeley's invaluable portion of the 

 * English Flora' was published I had considered this to be a non- 

 descript species ; subsequently I have seen Dr. Greville's figure, 

 than which nothing can be more excellent, 



Fez. acetabulum, Linn. On a clay bank, Stapleton, May. 



Fez. vesiculosa. Bull. There is what I consider to be a form of this 

 plant grows on the naked soil in woods ; it is much smaller, of 

 a more regular figure and less juicy consistency than the dung- 

 hill plants, otherwise I do not know how to distinguish it. 



Fez. macropus, Pers. Under beech trees, Stapleton, September, 

 Growing in company with Helvetia elasti<:a. Mr. Berkeley 

 remarks that some forms of these plants resemble each other, 

 which they do very strongly, and Fries seems to consider them 

 as identical, an opinion which I presume to doubt. 



Fez. hvrriosa, Fr. On the naked soil, Leigh Wood, Sept. 4, 1839. 

 Colour deep blood red internally, externally with greenish cast, 

 when wounded bleeding a whey-like juice. 



Fez. scutellata, Linn. On clay in wet ditch banks, Stapleton. 

 Densely gregarious, the largest plants were the size of six- 

 pences. The usual habitat for Fez. scutellata appears to be rot- 

 ten wood. Perhaps my plant is Fez. umbrosa, as Mr. Berkeley 

 suspects, but the latter plant is not mentioned in the Mycolog. 

 Eur. 



Fez. calycina and Laricis. Abundant on larch sticks in the spring. 

 Stapleton. 



Tremella fimbriata, Pers. On stumps, Redland. It immediately 

 gives a dark tincture to water. 



Spheerobotus stellatus, Tode. On sticks, Stapleton Wood. 



Sph. entomorrhiza, Dicks. I am aware how unwarrantable it is to 

 alter a well-known specific name, especially when imposed by 

 such a revered botanist as Dickson, but this specific name has 



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