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4. Ag. {Inocyhe) lacerus Fr. — Bowmont Forest; Oct. 1890. 

 Not very common. 



5. Ag. {Psaliota) h(emorrhoidaritjs Kalchbr. — One specimen 

 found in Bowmont Forest, Oct. 1890, under a spruce fir. This 

 is a rare fungus : Dr Keith of Forres, who has been observing 

 fungi for many years, and to whom I submitted my specimen, 

 informs me he has found it only once. The flesh, where broken, 

 immediately turns blood-red. 



6. Ag. {Hypholoma) Storea. — Bowmont Forest; Oct. 1890. 

 This is the plant which for many years has been received by 

 British Mycologists as Ag. storea of Fries, but it is now admitted 

 that the identification is at the least quite uncertain. What 

 Fries' storea was is unknown. It was evidently a very rare 

 fungus, for he found it only twice in his long life of constant 

 observation — once in 1816 on a beech trunk, and again, 17 years 

 later, on the same spot. No figure of it is known to exist, and 

 we have nothing but his description to guide us in identification, 

 and with that description our fungus does not agree. Not to 

 mention other points, Fries' plant is noted as being soUtarius, 

 while ours is always very csespitose. Dr 0. B. Plowright in 

 1884 proposed that it should be regarded as a new species, 

 under the name hypoxanthus, and this is the view which Dr M. 

 C. Cooke, to whom mycologists owe so much, now provisionally 

 takes (see his address to the Woolhope Club at Hereford, Sept. 

 30, 1890.) Dr Keith of Forres, and, I believe, now also Dr 

 Plowright, regard it as the true lacrymabundus of Fries, and, it 

 is said, this is the view taken in Sweden by those who know 

 Fries' species best. I submitted my specimens to Dr Keith, and 

 they agreed exactly with Dr Cooke's fig. No. 543. Further 

 study of the plant will determine its position. 



7. CoRTiNARius HEMiTRiOHUs Fr. — On a mossy bank at Fal- 

 donside ; Oct. 1890. Uncommon. 



8. EussuLA ruROATA -?V. — Sunlaws ; Sept. 1890. Common. 



9. Cantharellus retirugus Fr. — On a moss at Newton Don; 

 March 1890. 



10. Polyporus applanatus Fr. — Sept. 1889, 90 ; Sunlaws. 

 I have not found it elsewhere. 



11. DcEDALiA coNFRAGOSA Pers. — Sent to me in Sept. 1890, 

 by Mr J. B. Boyd, from Cherrytrees, where it was growing at 

 the foot of an ash. Uncommon. 



12. Clavaria in.^bqxjali8 Fl. Dan. — Sunlaws; October 1890. 

 Common. 



