486 THE NATURAL HISTORY 



P. betulinus (Birch Polyporus). 



P. fraxineus (Ash Polyporus). 



P. ferruginosus (Rusty Polyporus). 



Sterenm. 



Cortidum. 



Clavaria coralloides (White Coral Clavaria). 



C. oristata (Crested Clavaria). 



C.fastigiata (Fastigiate Clavaria). 



C. vermiculata (White-tufted Clavaria). 



Tremella mesenterica (Orange Tremella). 



T. albida (Whitish Tremella). 



Phallus impudicus. 



We now venture on a little digression. At that 

 indefinite period so frequently and conveniently re- 

 ferred to in many veracious histories, as " once upon a 

 time," a middle aged gentlemen, a bachelor of some- 

 what humorous proclivities, occupied a neat little 

 cottage not a hundred miles from Harting. His 

 establishment, including himself (!) a couple of ser- 

 vant-maids, a boy and a man of all work, was mildly 

 governed by a placid little housekeeper, on whom her 

 sponsors, some fifty or sixty years before she came 

 under our notice, had conferred the classical name of 

 Penelope, euphemized by her master into " Pen." 

 This lady was often heard to declare, that she could 

 never understand why her master should be so excep- 

 tional as he was, in his notions of order and cleanliness 

 within his limited domain. His " study," which was 

 crowded with books, papers, fossils, shells and sundry 

 other natural productions, in most admired disorder, 

 was strictly tabooed to Pen and her handmaidens, 

 while every other part of the cottage was expected by 

 him to be scrupulously neat and clean. It must be 

 confessed, however, that this expectation frequently 

 fell short of realization, one stair closet, in particular, 

 crammed with shavings, chips of wood, bits of paper, 

 old slippers, fragments of crockery and almost every 



