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LICHENOLOGICAL MEMORABILIA. 
spores. This I possess amongst the Arctic American Lichens of 
Sir John Kichardson, and it has also been found on old willow 
stumps at Hencote Pool, near Shrewsbury, and in Gloucestershire. 
V'erxucazia pertenuis. Leight. — Differing from V. chlorotica 
in the attenuated acicular 3-septate colourless spores. 
Verrucaxia fumosaxia. Leight. — Parasitic on Lecidea fuseo- 
atra, i. fumosa. Pen Cow. 
Vexxucaxia neottizans. Leight. — Parasitic on 
Llanachar Bridge. 
WOOLHOPE ANNUAL. 
The annual Fungus Foray of the Woolhope Club has taken 
place, under circumstances the most unfavourable, but with results 
little inferior to the best of former occasions. The weather so 
unpropitious for outdoor work, reduced the show of fungi to much 
smaller dimensions than usual, but the attendance at the meetings, 
and the interest in the proceedings was unabated. The entire week 
from September the 25th to the SOth was devoted, under the 
spirited guidance of Dr. Bull, to mycological pursuits. A detailed 
account, from the vigorous pen of Mr. Worthington Smith, in the 
“ Gardeners’ Chronicle,” renders it unnecessary to repeat the par- 
ticulars here, therefore we shall restrict our own observations to the 
purely scientific aspect of the week. The study of the Cortinarii 
was selected as the most special object of the meeting, but the 
unfavourable weather prevented any considerable effort being made, 
to collect illustrations of this difficult group. Of the additions 
made to the British Flora, the most important is that of Cortina- 
rius saginus, Fr., which, though not collected at the Club Excur- 
sions, was found before and after, by the indefatigable Dr. Bull. 
Drawings of this elegant species were sent to Upsal for the opinion 
of Professor Fries, and were determined by him as the species 
above named. A sketch was also exhibited at the show of an 
interesting little Cortinarius, which Fries pronounces a form of 
C. dilutuSy but very different in aspect from the general character 
of that species, and hereafter it may probably take rank as distinct. 
A cluster of Pholiota, found at Dinmore, became the subject of 
some diversity of opinion, which Fries has decided by describing 
it as a new species in the current number of this journal. 
Among the rarities may be mentioned Agaricus autochtliomis, 
B. & Br., Agaricus cyphellceformis, B., Agaricus balaninus, P., and 
Agaricus togularis, Fr., the latter brought by Mr. C. B. Plowright, 
from Kings Lynn. 
The microscopic species, which are rather collateral than promi- 
nent objects of interest with the Woolhope Club, were augmented 
