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HEREFORDSHIRE FLORA. 
Flora, with 367 pages devoted to the Phanerogamia, then 75 pages 
of mosses, 70 pages of catalogue of the Fungi, and some few pages 
of supplementary matter, and the Indices. 
It is neither our province, nor our intention, to express any 
opinion on the portion devoted to the Phanerogamia, in which 903 
species are recorded, inclusive of the Ferns. The mosses, to the 
number of 283 species, doubtless came under the fatherly care of 
the Rev. Augustin Ley, and there is little room for doubt that this 
portion of the work is thoroughly trustworthy. The Fungi, rather 
a speciality with the Woolhope Club, attain to some 1,097 species, 
contrasting favourably with the 445 species recorded in the “ Flora 
of Leicestershire” (1886), and the 987 of the “Flora of West 
Yorkshire” (1888). In this portion the Hymenomycetes were 
catalogued by M. C. Cooke, from lists and drawings left by the 
late Dr. Bull, and from notes and drawings made by himself 
during the period of the various annual forays. The list of Dis- 
comycetes was furnished by W. Phillips, F.L.S., whilst C. B. 
Plowright lent his ready assistance with the Uredines and the 
Pyrenomycetes. Only one of these sections makes any reasonable 
approach to completeness, viz., that of the Hymenomycetes. The 
minute fungi have been only casually recorded, and nothing like a 
systematic attempt has ever been made to investigate the micros- 
copic fungi of Herefordshire ; consequently, with the exception of 
the Discomycetes, the lists are most imperfect and incomplete. At 
the annual forays and exhibitions all the interest has centred in 
the larger fungi, and this portion may be taken to represent fairly 
well what has been found and recorded in the county. It may be 
of interest to compare the number of species of the Hymenomy- 
cetes recorded for Herefordshire, namely, 636, with the 499 species 
recorded for the same order in the “ Flora of West Yorkshire,” 
and 299 recorded in the “Flora of Leicestershire.” These numbers 
cannot be compared with those of Epping and Essex generally, 
since the Essex lists are so far behindhand in publication, notwith- 
standing that the Field Club has a monthly journal of its own. 
We fancy it may be taken for granted that Herefordshire stands 
at the head of all English Counties in the number of species of 
Agarics which have been found within its borders. It is not 
surprising that some of these should still remain so identified with 
the county that they have not been observed elsewhere in the British 
Isles. Such, for instance, as Lactarius lilacinus, found at Sunny 
Gutter, on one occasion rather freely ; Hygrophorus erubescens , 
from Downton ; Cortinarius triumphans , from Dinmore ; Agaricus 
( Pholiota ) Cookei, described by Fries from specimens collected at 
Dinmore ; Agaricus {Inocybe') hcemactus, B. & C., only found, as 
yet, at Credinhill; Agaricus ( Naucoria ) rubricatus , Berk., known 
only from Holme Lacy; Agaricus ( Hypholoma ) cedipus , C., dis- 
covered at Clelianger ; not forgetting Agaricus (. Pholiota ) aureus 
var. Herefordiensis ; and last, but not least, the redoubtable Strobi- 
lomyces strobiliaceus , so often found within the county. 
