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MEMORABILIA. 
Plate 625 should be Ag. phcilenarum with the appendiculate veil, 
and 
Plate 626 should be Ag. fimiputris with the annular zone on the 
stem. 
Subscribers and purchasers will please note the correction. 
FUNGUS FORAYS IN 1891. 
On all hands we have received intimation that the fleshy fungi 
have been more plentiful this year than for three or four seasons 
past ; indeed, they could not well have been worse than in 1889 
and 1890. Doubt and uncertainty prevailed so late into the year 
that the enthusiasm for Fungus Forays cooled down, and the 
most celebrated and ancient of all Fungus Forays, that of the 
week with the Woolhope Club at Hereford, was represented by a 
single day. The customary tivo days of the Essex Field Club 
diminished to one , which latter had to be abandoned, on account of 
the death of the proprietor of the property on which the hunt was 
to have taken place. The Hampshire Society only arranged for a 
half-day trip, but that proved to be a successful and enjoyable one, 
as the weather was fine. The Hackney Society held no Fungus 
meeting, but the Hertfordshire Society held their usual Saturday, 
which proved a success as far as regards the fungi. The Crypto- 
gamic Society of Scotland was undaunted, and kept the “ even 
tenor of its way,” but, on the whole, it will be seen that Forays 
were not in the ascendant. 
We have heard of no extraordinary appearances and no remark- 
able new species, except those recorded in another page of this 
Journal as new to Britain. Mr. Massee has reported that 
Tremellodon gelatinosum was so plentiful in the New Forest that it 
might have been collected by the hundredweight, and yet we had 
always considered this rather a rare species with us. A singular 
incident occurred in September, when a large cluster of Agaricus 
(. Psalliota ) Elvensis came up under a pear tree in our own garden, 
so that for a week or more our table was continuously supplied. 
It is one of the best of edible species, and some of the specimens 
had a pileus of six inches in diameter. How, and why, did it 
select our garden ? We had only known of it at Neasden, miles 
away, in previous years, whence we had many a delicious morsel. 
The only probability we can think of is that old specimens, 
showing trace of maggots, had been cast away two or three years 
ago, and that, in course of time, the spores germinated. It is a 
habit with us to fling all fungus debris into the garden, so as to 
give them a chance if so disposed. If the present species is liable 
to propagate itself in that manner it will be a valuable species for 
domestic purposes. We shall be curious to see if it continues to 
flourish in the same spot another year. 
