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POLVPORUS UMBELLATL S Fr. Europe and North America. On decaying- 

 stumps. Edible. 



RussuLA ALL TACPIA Fr. Europe, North America, and Kashmir. Edible, 



fresh plants having- the best flavour. 

 RussuLA DECOLORANS Fr. Europe and North America. Pine woods. 



Edible. 



RussLLA HETEROPHVLLA Fr. Europe and North America. In woods. 

 Edible. 



Rlssi LA LACTEA Fr. Europe and North America. In Beech and mixed 

 woods. Edible. 



Russula lepida Fr. Europe and North America. In Beech woods. 

 Edible. 



Russula ochrophylla Pk. North America. Under Oak trees, etc. Edible. 

 Russula roseipes Bres. Europe and North America. Pine woods. 

 Russula vesca Fr. Europe and North America. In woods. Edible. 



Said to be one of the best of the Riissiilas. 

 Russula virescens Fr. Europe and North America. In woods. Edible. 

 Trametes cinnabarina Fr. Europe and Siberia. On Birch, Beech, Oak 



trunks, etc. Retinic acid has been extracted. (' Bot. Microtechnique,' 



Zimmerman, 1893.) 

 Tremella esculenta Mass. China. Worth from 8 to 24 taels a cutty 



(is. 3d. per lb.) A g-reat delicacy at a Chinese dinner. 

 Tremellodon gelatinosum Pers. North America. On trunks of Fir, 



etc. The only g-elatinous spiny fung-us. Bears a great resemblance to 



Hyduiim, which generic name it once bore. Edible. 

 Tricholoma albellum Fr. Europe and North America. On ground. 



Edible. 



Tricholoma brevipes (Bull.) Fr. Europe and North America. In 



plantations. Edible. \'ery good eating. 

 Tricholoma portentosum Fr. Europe, Siberia, and North America. Pine 



woods. Edible. 



Tricholoma Russula Trat. Europe and North America. Woods. Edible. 

 Tricholoma terreum (Scha^ff. ) Sow. var. fragrans (Pk.). North 



America. In open Pine woods and on ground under trees. Edible. 

 Tuber magnatum Pico. 'French Truffle.' France, Germany, and Italy. 



Underground. Edible. 

 Tuber mesentericum Vitt. Germany, Italy, France, etc. In woods. 



Edible. Sold for about half the price of Tuber bnimale. 



LEPIDOPTERA. 



Early Appearance of Larentia multistrigaria. — I have 

 been taking Larentia multistrigaria since 25th January. Is not 

 this exceptionally early? — R. T. Cassal, Brook Villa, Ballatigh, 

 Isle of Man, 22nd February 1905. 



[We have never seen L. multistrigaria on the wing- before 

 February, which we regfarded as unusually early, as the 

 ordinary time in West Yorkshire for it to be fully out appears 

 to be about the first week in April. But the very mild weather 

 in January this year broug-ht out the spring moths, and w e hear 

 of Phigalia pilosaria being- common in the South b}' the end ot 

 the month.— G. T. P.] 



1905 April I. 



