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SESSION MYCOLOGIQUE OF PARIS. 
Fontainebleau raised some of ns from our beds at 5.o’clock, in order 
to catch the 7 o’clock train at the other extremity of Paris. After 
a ride of 37 miles breakfast was welcome, but before it could be 
partaken of an outlying portion of the forest had to be explored, 
so that the hotel was not reached until 12 o’clock. Justice to the 
viands being fully rendered, the exploration was again undertaken, 
chiefly under the coniferous trees, this being the only spot around 
Paris where Fir trees are grown to a sufficient extent to produce 
the characteristic fungi. Tlie shades of evening closed around the 
excursionists before they again reached the hotel for dinner, and at 
8 o’clock the train was due to start for Paris. Dinner having been 
disposed of, compliments became general, and amongst tlie toasts 
which were duly honoured were “ The Strangers,” “ The President” 
(M. de Seynes), whose unavoidable absence was universally re- 
gretted ; “The Veteran Fries,” ‘‘The Woolhope Club and Dr. 
Bull,” “ The Author of the Handbook of British Fungi,'" “ Messrs. 
Quelet, Boudier, and Cornu,” and “The Mycologists of France,” 
the last two being proposed by the English visitors. Thus closed 
the Session Mycologique of 1877. 
Necessarily this is only a brief outline of the work of the week. 
Amongst the species found which were of most interest to us were 
those either not yet found in Britain or very rarely, such as an old 
dilapidated pileus of Strobilomyces, found near I’aris for the first 
time by Dr. Quelet ; numerous specimens of the very character- 
istic Eussula Queletii, first identified in Britain this year during 
the Woolhope foray ; Lactarius helvus, not at all uncommon around 
Paris; Cortinarius scutellatus, delibutus, isabellinus, and paleaceus ; 
Irpex paradoxus, Coprinus lagopus and picaceus, Phlebia radiata, 
Hydnuni. argutum, fuscoatrum, and molle ; Hygrophorus discoideus, 
Grandinia mucida, a curious Marasmius resembling J/. 7-o?w/a,with 
lateral branches bearing abortive pilei, found in some quantity at 
Montmorency ; Elapliomyces Leveillei, muricatus, cyanosporus, 
echinatus and asperulus, and many other of the larger fungi, which 
will be recorded in the Bulletin of the Society. Amongst the 
minute species, Peziza umbrata, Fr., for the first time definitely 
recorded in France; Peziza trachycarpa, Curr. Also for the first 
time, Peziza maurilabrce, C., a species almost simultaneously found 
in Britain, and which may thus be described : — 
Peziza maurilabrae. Cooke. (J^ection Humaida.) 
Sessilis, carnosa. Cupulis concavis, demum margine crispatis, 
crenulatis, extus atro-brunneis ; hymenio carneo-rubricente vel 
subaurantiacis, 5 mm. diam. ; sporidiis ellipticis, binucleatis, -017- 
•02 X '008 mm. ; paraphysibus clavatis, aurantiacis, hinc illic 
furcatis. 
On the ground. 
This somewhat resembles P. melaloma, A. & S.,but the external 
cells and margin are distinctly different. 
In addition to these, Saccobolus neglectus, Bond., Helotium sero- 
tinum, Fr., Helotium pallescens, Fr., Helotium phascoides, Fr., in 
