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Russula purpurea, Gillet Hymen., ser. xi, pi. x. 
Rather mild. Pileus viscid ; cuticle separable ; stem stuffed, 
striate ; margin even ; gills free, white, unchangeable ; a few of 
them furcate. 
Under trees. Pleasure Grounds, Kew, Sept., 1885. 
We have seen no description of this species, but our specimens 
agree exactly with Gillet’s figures. 
Boletus rubinus, Smith, Journ. JBot., 1868. Fr. Hym. Fur., 504. 
This pretty little species has been rather plentiful, during the 
early part of August, in the pleasure grounds at Kew. The 
peculiar rosy-red of the hymenium is very characteristic. 
Boletus cxuentus, Vent. Mic., t. 43, /. 3, 4. Fr Hym. Fur., 507. 
Pileus convex then plane, smooth, at length rugulose, gilvous ; 
stem thick, rather bulbous, attenuated downwards into a rooting 
base, and upwards into the pileus ; flesh yellowish, turning blood- 
red, especially about the top of the stem when cut ; pileus also 
stained red where touched or .bruised. Tubes adnate, pores small, 
simple, yellow. Odour foetid. 
Under beech. Kew Gardens (G. M.), August, 1886. 
Pileus about three inches broad, stem four inches long, one 
inch thick, yellowish, clad with small tomentose scales, not unlike 
B. duriusculus . Although the pileus is at first rather velvety, it 
becomes nearly smooth, and despite its foetid odour, which is not 
mentioned by Venturi, we consider this a form of his species. 
.Xcidium Glaucis, Dozy, fy Molh. Tidschr. v. Hat. Gesch., xii, p. 16. 
Rabh. Krypt. Flora (Winter), i., 262. Kunze Fungi Fxs., No. 51. Rabh. 
Fung. Fur., 1599. Thumen Mycoth., 1021. 
Spores polygonal, colourless, 16-24 p X 14-20 p. 
On Glaux maritima. Pauli, near Hull. July, 1886 (E. A. Peak). 
Annual Forays. — We are informed, that the Cryptogamic 
Society of Scotland will hold its annual meeting this year at 
Aberdeen, under the presidency of Professor J. W. H. Trail, on 
the 1st of September ; that the Leeds Naturalist Society will 
devote a week to Fungus excursions during the last week in Sep- 
tember, ending on Saturday, October the 2nd; the Hackney Natural 
History Society taking a day in Epping Forest about the 25th 
of September. The Woolhope Club has arranged for the Hereford 
meeting in the week commencing on Monday, Oct. 4th, the Foray 
day and annual dinner being fixed for Thursday, Oct. 7th. As at 
present informed we anticipate that the Essex Field Club will 
devote two days to excursions in Epping Forest after the close of 
the Hereford meeting. Suggestions have been made for similar 
meetings in connection with a Society at Tunbridge Wells and 
the Hertfordshire Natural History Society, but no dates have 
transpired. Although the French Cryptogamists have made no 
announcement for this year, it has been intimated that they pur- 
pose inviting English Mycologists to a series of excursions to be 
held in some week during the autumn of 1887. 
