A HISTORY OF BEDFORDSHIRE 
years after his time Mr. J. Hamson took up the subject. His records 
were confirmed in the first instance by Mr. Worthington G. Smith and 
afterwards for several seasons by Mr. W. B. Grove of Birmingham, who 
also revised Abbot’s list of fungi in terms of modern nomenclature. At 
that time the modern list was of almost equal length with that of Abbot’s, 
allowance being made for microscopic forms which Mr. Hamson did 
not collect. Mr. E. M. Langley of Bedford has also been a collector of 
fungi for several years ; the initials ‘E.M.L.’ indicate that the specimens 
were found by Mr. Langley and examined by Mr. Hamson. The initials 
‘W.B.G.’ and ‘ W.G.S.’ signify that the specimens were seen and named 
by Mr. Grove and Mr. Worthington Smith respectively. Those to 
which no initials are attached or are followed by such remarks as ‘com- 
mon’ are on the authority of Mr. Hamson alone. A list of the recent 
finds was revised by Mr. W. B. Grove, read by him before the Birming- 
ham Natural History and Philosophical Society, 10 April 1894, and 
published in the ‘fourna/ of that society, vol. i. No. 13. The fairly 
well established records number about 266 so far, but many others have 
been found though doubtfully recorded, and some which have the repu- 
tation of growing in the county have not been seen by the author. 
Mr. Grove’s notes on Abbot’s Fungus Flora are set out at length in 
the Midland Naturalist, xvi. (1893), 212, 235. It will be sufficient to 
state here that according to the identifications, which Mr. Grove has 
very carefully traced, thirty-eight species of Agaricus found by Abbot 
have been rediscovered, together with seventy-eight fresh records ; but 
sixteen of Abbot’s species have not been since met with or only doubt- 
fully. Abbot gives five Coprini, and they have all been found again. 
He gives Bo/bitius titubans, but the modern record is B. hydrophilus. Of 
his four species of Cortinarius only one, Ainnuleus, is in the modern 
record. Gomphidius viscidus survives from Abbot’s time, as does Paxillus 
involutus ; but, singular to say, P. atrotomentosus, so common in recent 
years, is not in his list. Of Hygrophorus he gives five species, all re- 
discovered with seven additions. He records Lactarius torminosus and 
piperatus. ‘The latter is not in the modern list, which contains eleven in 
all. Herecords only Russula nigricans of that genus ; Cantharellus cibarius 
and C. retirugus, but not aurantiacus, which is very common ; and seven 
species of Marasmius, of which the first five constitute the modern records, 
but M. Hudsoni and M. epiphyllus have not been confirmed. Lentinus 
tigrinus and /epideus are now frequent, but Abbot found only L. cochleatus. 
His two species of Panus have not since been noticed, but Lenzites flac- 
cida is known at Ampthill together with L. betulina. Abbot gives only 
four Boleti, of which piperatus is not in the modern list. Out of eleven 
Polyport three, viz. varius, lucidus and intybaceus have not been since met 
with. He gives a much longer list of the Pezize than that below. 
The comparison might be pursued further with regard to many of the 
other families and genera ; but most of the common forms mentioned by 
Abbot have been rediscovered. A considerable number of his records 
can however be only doubtfully recognized. It is interesting to note 
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