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patches which are easily rubbed off, 3 to 4 inches across ; gills 

 crowded, clear white ; stem white, short, cylindrical, with a 

 torn ring or frill, base bulbous, having the remains of the 

 sheath or volva attached to its upper margin. 



It occurs on the ground in woods during autumn. 



It has a strong, unpleasant smell, and is very poisonous. 



Warted Agaric (Amanita pantherina. Fig. 19,) 



The cap is convex, becoming almost or quite flat, edge 

 grooved, dusky brown or reddish-yellow, flesh persistently 

 white, 3 to 4 inches across; gills white, unchangeable; stem 

 elongated, whitish, ring present, base bulbous, volva attached 

 to the bulb, its margin only free. 



It is found in woods and in pastures under trees in autumn. 



The sheathed agaric differs in the absence of a ring or frill 

 on the stem, and in the base of the stem not being bulbous. 

 The Warty caps (Amanita rubescens, Fig. 6 — see Journal, 

 March, 1910) is readily separated from this species by the 

 flesh of the cap and stem becoming tinged reddish-brown 

 when cut. 



The Board of Agriculture and Fisheries have published the 

 Report of the Small Holdings Commissioners on the pro- 

 ceedings of the Board during 1909 



^SL^sand 1 Under the Sma11 Holdin £ s and Allot ~ 



AVtme S nts nd ments Acts * Part L of the Re P ort 

 [Cd. 5180, price iojd.] deals with small 



holdings, and Part II. [Cd. 5188, price gd.] with allotments, 

 and with certain others Acts administered in the Land Divi- 

 sion. 



Considerable progress has been made during the past year 

 in satisfying the demand for small holdings, and the position 

 on the 31st December last was that 60,889 acres had been 

 actually acquired or agreed to be acquired for small holdings 

 by County Councils in England and Wales, of which 

 34,234 acres had been purchased for ,£1,107,215, and 

 26,655 acres leased for rents amounting to ^33,611. Of 

 this land vacant possession had been obtained of 38,126 acres, 

 and 36,845 acres had been actually let to 2,793 individual 

 small holders, and 28 acres sold to two small holders. In 

 addition 2,674 acres had been let or arranged to be let to 

 17 Co-operative Small Holdings Associations, who had sub- 



