A HISTORY OF STAFFORDSHIRE 



X. CEDOGONIACE^ Nostoc commune, Vauch. 



Bulbochaete setigera, Ag. csruleum, Lyng. 



verrucosum. Vauch. 

 XL ULOTRICHE^E 



Schizogonium murale, Kdtz XVI. LYNGBY^E 



XII. CHROOLEPIDE^E Oscillaria tenuis, Ag. 



Chroolepus aureus (L.), KUtz ~ 1'mosa, Ag. 



nigra, Vauch. 

 XIII. CH^TOPHORACE^: Lyngbia ochracea, Thur. 



Stigeoclonium nanum (Dillw.), Kdtz 



Draparnaldia glomerata, Ag. XVIII. CALOTRICHE^ 



- plumosa (Vauch.), Ag. Gloiotrichia natans, Thur. 



Chastophora pisirormis, Ag. 



BATRACHOSPERME ^ 



aendivxfolia, Ag. Batrachospermum moniliforme, Roth. 



CLASS II. PHYCOCHROMOPHYCE^: 

 Ord. II. NEMATOGENEJE 



XV. NOSTOCE^ XXII. LEMANEACE^E 



Nostoc muscorum, Ag. Lemanea fluviatilis, Ag. 



THE FUNGI 



The following list of the fungi of Staffordshire is in no way a 

 complete one ; the county has not been exhaustively examined from 

 a botanical point of view. Many of the districts, such as the extensive 

 woodlands about Trentham, Swinnerton and Maer, have yielded a rich 

 fungus flora, among others Polyporus hispidus, P. abietinus^ P. frondosa y 

 P. annosus, the esculent Boletus edulis and Fistulina bepatica, and in 

 some of these woods Boletus subtomentosus and B. Jfavus are abundant, 

 and in places where the soil has been burnt and on the dried twigs 

 abundance of the singular Hydnum membranaceum has been seen. The 

 esculent Cantbarellus cibarius is sometimes abundant in the woods, on 

 the heathy lands the beautiful C. aurantiacus, and in boggy places near 

 Betley C. lobatus. In many of these woodlands the beautiful but fetid 

 Phallus impudicus is frequent, and in those of Swinnerton the rarer and 

 less fetid Cyanophallus caninus has been found. In the district around 

 Blymhill many rare species have been recorded in the long past, as 

 Cortinarius vio/aceus, C. gentilis, Lactarius torminosus and the edible L. 

 deliciosus, and frequently throughout the county the fairy ring fungus 

 (Marasmius oreades], is abundant. In the limestone districts of the Wetton 

 valley some of the rarer species of Peziza are found, the common 

 morel (Morcbella esculenta), Helvetia crispa, 'Thelepbora canina and Boletus 

 asper ; but to localize even a tithe of the more interesting species would 

 occupy too much space ; all at present known to the writer are recorded 

 below. 



The nomenclature is that of Fries' Hymenomycete JLuropcea^ and 

 Berkley's Outlines of British Fungology ; the authorities quoted are Garner's 

 Natural History of 'Staffordshire ; The Reports and Transactions of the North 

 Staffordshire and Archaological Society and the writer. 



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