60 LETTERS TO MERRETT. 



bags is not in yr. catalogue I have founde fit to grow- 

 wild at [Golston crossed out] Golston by Yarmouth, & 

 transplanted it to other places.* 



[MS. SLOANE 1830. FOL. 39-4O.J 



No. II. 

 Fol. 39.J 



" My second letter to Dr Meret Aug xiiii 1668." 



Honord Sr I receiued your courteous letter & am 

 sorry some diuersions have so long delayed this my 

 second vnto you. You are very exact in the account 

 of the fungi. I have met with two/"" which I have not 

 found in any Author, of which I have sent you a rude 

 draught inclosed. The iirst an elegant fungus Ligneus 

 found in an hollow sallowe I haue one of them by mee 

 butt without a very good opportunitie dare not send it 

 fearing it should bee broken vnto some it seemed to 

 resemble some noble or princely ornament of the head 

 & so might bee called fungus Regius vnto others a 



* This letter, evidently a copy as shown by the heading " My father to 

 Dr. Meret," is in the writing of Dr. Edwd. Browne. 



Yarmouth ") reported it as still found under old walls at Gorleston, " but 

 rarer than formerly,'' and it is only in recent years that it has been 

 exterminated, owing to building operations in that locality. 



106 j)j._ piowright informs me that " it is impossible to say with certainty 

 what the first named Fungus is ; the description suggests some form of 

 Polyporus perhaps, P. varius, which is a ligneous species and occurs 

 frequently on willows in Norfolk. The second is the abortive form of 

 Polyporus squamosus, which is well figured by many of the older botanists^ 

 for instance under the name of Boletus rangiferinus, by Bolton, t. 138, 

 and Boletus squamosus, var. rangiferinus, by Hooker, ' Flora Lon- 

 dinensis,' new series. In many cases no pileus at all is formed and it used 

 then to be referred to Clavaria. " The Phalloides is Phallus impudicus, L. , 3 

 very common species in this county and even occurring in some of the city 

 gardens where its exceedingly offensive odour renders it very undesirable. 

 Fungus rotundus is the well-known Lycoperdon giganteum, Fr., which 

 sometimes reaches a very large size. 



