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more or less infected in the spring of tlie year; 

 and at lengthy if we persevere^ the anemone 

 cluster-cup {j^ciduim leucospermum) will be our 

 reward (plate I. figs. 4 — 6). The specific name 

 will suggest one point of difference between the 

 two fungi^ as in this instance the spores are white^ 

 and somewhat elliptic. Probably this species is 

 not common^ as we have found it but seldom^ 

 though often in search of it. A nearly allied 

 species has been found on Anemones in gardens, 

 having but few large teeth about the orifice,, though 

 not constantly four_, as the name would indicate 

 (^. qiiadrifidimn) . 



A vfalk through almost any wood^ in the spring 

 of the year, will reward the mycologist with 

 another cluster-cup {Mcidium), in which the 

 peridia are scattered over the whole surface of 

 the leaf. This will be found on the wood spurge, 

 giving a sickly yellowish appearance to the leaves, 

 on the under-surface of which it is found. By 

 experience one may soon learn to suspect the 

 occurrence of parasites of this nature on leaves, 

 from the peculiar exhausted and unhealthy appear- 

 ance which they assume as the spores ripen, and 

 which will spare the labour of turning over the 

 leaves when there are no distinct spots on the 

 upper surface. ^. Euphorhice is found on several 

 species of Ijiijiliorhium or spurge, but we have 

 always found it most abundantly on the wood 

 spurge in the Kentish woods between Dartford 



