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marginate, smooth beneath, at length bullate ; hymenium purple 
flesh colour, then fuscous, pruinose ; spores 6x4^. 
On pine bark. 
Stexeum fxustulosum, Fries Hym. Fur. p. 643. Mass. Mon. Thel. 
p. 199. Stev. B. F. II., 270. 
Woody, resupinate, tuberculose, crowded and somewhat con- 
fluent, then apparently broken into frustules, beneath and 
obsoletely marginate circumference smooth, bay brown, turning 
blackish; hymenium convex, cinnamon, growing pale, pruinose; 
spores ellipsoid, rather acute at the ends, 4-5 X 3-3^ p. 
On wood and bark. 
Stexeum acexinum, Fries Hym. Fur. p. 645. Mass. Mon. Thel. p. 
202. CooTce Handb. No. 915. Stev. B. F. ii., 271. 
Crustaceous, adnate, even, smooth, snowy white ; often sterile ; 
spores ellipsoid, 6 x 3-4 p. 
On living bark of Acer campestris, etc. 
Stexeum stxatosum, BerTc. <$• Br. Ann. Nat. Hist. ser. v., vol. xn., 
(1883), p. 574. Mass. Mon. Thel. p. 203. Stev. B. F. II., 271. 
Effused, bright ochraceous-white, smooth, becoming yellowish, 
here and there rugose ; substance pallid, stratose, the strata at 
length separating. 
On bark (?). Penzance. 
CONFESSIONS OF A MYCOPHAGIST. 
A disinterested spectator at one of the Fungus Forays, now 
habitually organized by local Natural History Societies, will 
recognize three distinct classes of individuals which make up the 
marauding band. They all start with the single object in their 
minds of having a social day in the hunting field. It is to be a 
hunt, on a small scale, a sort of travestie of the bigger hunts of 
more aristocratical renown, but much of the old spirit of the chase 
gives life to the Foray. There is a dash of enthusiasm and excite- 
ment, a hope and a struggle to be “ in at the death.” The most 
interested of the three parties is generally the smallest one, com- 
posed for the most part of steady-going old fogies, with books in 
their pockets, and a basket on their arms, directing a keen restless 
gaze in all directions, quiet and reserved in their demeanour, but 
evidently meaning business. This is the scientific section, each 
individual of which is on the hunt for something new or rare, 
anything, ever so minute, which is capable of bearing a long name 
never heard in that locality before. Little regard is paid to the 
