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viewed at different angles, various shades of pale cinnamon. 

 In a dried specimen the colour of the pileus is not so bright 

 and the pores are whitish. 



The most distinctive feature, and the one very properly- 

 employed by the great Swedish mycologist for the specific 

 name which he bestowed upon the plant, is the nodosities 

 of the hymenium, which spreads over the interspaces between 

 the pilei. 



The woods on the South Downs near Heyshott (four miles 

 from Mid.hurst, Sussex) had not, to my knowledge, been 

 investigated by mycologists prior to my visit in the autumn 

 of 1905. Since then I have made several excursions to 

 them, and succeeded in finding many rare and interesting 

 species. Notes upon some of these were given in the last 

 month's issue of the Museum Gazette. The beech woods clothe 

 both the north and south slopes of the Downs. Speaking 

 generally, those on the north side are poor in fungi but rich 

 in mollusca ; from the tree trunks in spring and late autumn 

 may be gathered Clausilia laminata, C. bidentata, and Ena 

 obscura, whilst beneath them, in restricted areas, may be found 

 the three very rare and interesting shells, Helicodonta obvoluta, 

 C. rolfihii, and E. montana. On the south side the conditions 

 are reversed, molluscs are comparatively scarce but fungi 

 abound. It was on this side that I found P. nodulosis, and 

 excepting Inocybe echimta, all the Heyshott species commented 

 upon in the notes on the Haslemere Exhibition of Fungi. 



E. W. S WANTON, 



