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SESSION MYCOLOGIQUE OF PARIS. 
panied by a coloured drawing and sections, and one or two of the 
mounted specimens were also coloured up in body colour to a re- 
semblance of life. One species only was mounted on each sheet, 
and this was sometimes represented by twenty specimens in dif- 
ferent stages of growth. Several plates contained the dried fungi 
sold in the markets in different parts of France, strings of Mor- 
chella deliciosa from near Geneva, absolutely identical not only in 
the species, but also in the method of drying and stringing them 
witli those we have received from Cashmere. Of course there were 
strings of the Chantarelle, and other species dried in fragments 
which could not be satisfactorily identified. In the evening at 8 
o’clock Dr. M. Cornu gave an admirable popular lecture on the 
study of Fungi, in another room. 
Monday, October 22, — The exhibition was again open from 10 
to 5, after which it was closed, and the specimens and drawings 
returned to their owners. About twenty gentlemen met at the 
railway station after dejeuner^ and proceeded on an excursion to the 
Forest of St. Germain. 
In the evening, at 8 o’clock, a meeting was held at the rooms of 
the Society, with M. Duchartre in the chair, when a paper describ- 
ing some new species of fungi was read by M. Boudier ; also one 
of a similar character by Dr. Quelet, one by Dr. M. C. Cooke on 
some allied species of ^cidiacei, and finally a general conversation 
on the relations between the larger fungi and cold weather. Dr. 
Quelet thought that cold was not so injurious as generally sup- 
posed, as he had noticed some species revive after frost, especially 
the Hygrophori, and he instanced Hygrophorus hypothejus as not 
appearing until frosty weather. M. Cornu then reported the 
names of the species encountered during the excursion of the day. 
Tuesday, October 23. — Excursionists were stirring early to leave 
the station of the Northern Railway by 8 o’clock, for a ride of 
nearly two hours to the Forest of Villers-Cotterets. This is a 
large crescent-shaped forest, of 32 miles in length, still inhabited 
in some parts by wild boars. After a hurried scramble to the 
station, which is in a remote corner of Paris, and a ride of two 
hours, breakfast was highly appreciated, and indulged in so leisurely 
that it was noon before the party were on their way to the forest. 
It was dark when the party returned to the hotel at 6 o’clock to 
dine. During this meal some large dried Polypoid from the Vosges 
were on the table, and the conversation was very mycological. Dr. 
Quelet declared that Hydnwn gelatinosum was an excellent fungus 
to eat raw, wdth sugar, like jelly, and of this he spoke from expe- 
rience. Some Truffles collected during the day were pronounced 
to be Tuber mesentericum, sold usually at five or six francs per kilo- 
gramme, or about half the price of Tuber brumale. Before the 
dinner party made their way to the railway station. Dr. Cornu 
undertook the operation of slicing up a large specimen of Poly- 
porus resinosus, which had been collected during the day, and was 
carried by one of the party mounted on the tip of his umbrella and 
