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brown. The lacunose sterile base not projecting- into the gleba 

 as a columella. 



On the ground among hazel bushes. 



Distribution. — Germany, France, United States. 



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Lycoperdon cruciatum, ttost. 



The left-hand fig. shows the outer peridium intact. In the 

 two remaining figs, only fragments of the outer peridium 

 remain. Natural size. 



tiebeloma subsaponaceum Karst. — On the ground in strip 

 of mixed woodland, AUerthorpe Common, near Pocklington, 

 Y.N.U. Excursion, Aug., 1905. First British record. Diff"ers 

 from allied species in the strong soapy smell, dry pileus, adnate 

 gills, and smaller spores 6-9 x 4-6 /x. 



Cantharellus hypnorum Brond., Rev. Myc, 1892, p. 65 ; 

 Sacc, Syll. 11, p. 32, 1895. — ^Pileus campanulato-convex then 

 expanded and slightly depressed, margin incurved, minutely 

 downy, the down sometimes collected into little fascicles, pale 

 primrose yellow, sometimes verging on pale ochre, i-i^^ in. 

 diameter ; flesh thin, whitish ; gills thin, edge acute, somewhat 

 crowded, branched, decurrent, yellow ; spores hyaline, smooth, 

 oblong with a minute oblique apiculus, 7x41".; stem about 

 I in. long, slender, often slightly flexuous, almost glabrous, 

 yellow, sometimes darker than the pileus towards the base. 



Collected by E. Snelgrove, on Ferrymoor, near Cudworth, 

 Y.N.U. Excursion, Sept. 9th, 1905. First British record. 

 Previously recorded for France only. 



A very distinct species, allied to C. aurantiacus, from which 

 it differs in the less tomentose pileus, absence of orange colour, 

 and smaller spores. C. aiiranfiacus is considered by some 



1906 January i. 



