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breadth, leaving the lower portion of the stem projecting from the bed. This 

 afternoon he was surprised to find a peculiar double mushroom on the spot. 

 It is formed of two mushrooms attached by their upper surfaces ; the smaller 

 one being placed in the inverted position on the upper one, and the cuticle of 

 the two being continuous. The stem of the upper one was continuous with 

 that of the large one which was cut off. The annexed sketch will give some 

 idea of the nature of this curious monstrosity. The part above the dotted line 

 represents the one cut off a few weeks ago ; the part below is the double 

 mushroom at present in my possession. — C. A." 



While my attention was fixed on interesting morphological 

 peculiarities like the above, a package of Hypolysus Montagnei, 

 recently collected in Trinidad by Mrs. Britton, Miss Coker, and 



Fig. 2. Double mushroom in section, natural size 



Mr. Rowland, was handed me for determination and I found that 

 many of the small, .goblet-shaped hymenophores had budded at 

 the margin and produced from one to three secondary hymeno- 

 phores with stalks and caps similar to the primary ones both in 

 shape and size. 



One frequently sees "buds" on the pilei of gill-fungi, usually 

 bearing lamellae on their upper surface, but no trace of a stipe 

 is ever present. In a pretty little specimen of Marasmius col- 



