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corresponding measurements above in brackets for comparison. It 
was exliibited at Tombland Fair, where I saw it. — T. S. 
IjOletus suLPriuREU.s AND IIelvella infula at Brandon. 
Tn 1874 tlio Tlev. James Keith of Forre.®, Scotland, found at 
Kotliiemurchus that magnificent fungus Buletus sulphureus, Fr., on 
a lieap of sawdust. This fungus was found at Brandon, in 
Isovember, 1870, and, although Great Britain can now boast of 
([uitc an army of mycologists, this rare species lias been recorded 
irom no other localitie.s. Its large size, peculiar habitat, and the 
tiec development ot its golden yellow mycelium, render it a 2 )lant 
not easily to bo overlooked, and when found readily recognisable. 
In Soiitombor of this year I had the pleasure of visiting 
Kothiomurchus, but as 1 had learned from I^Ir. Keith the Bolcfus 
had di.sappoarcd, I was not disappointed in not seeing it. Upon 
an enoimous heap of sawdust, however, I found several si)ccimcns 
of lleliella infula, Schajft., a fungus wdiich had not jireviously been 
found in Gieat Britain, although it is not uncommon upon the 
continent of Euroiio and also in Korth America, from both of which 
places I have received specimens. It, like the Boletus, is a large 
lungus, 8 or 0 inches in height, and perhaiis 3 to 4 in diameter, 
totally unlike any of our British ITehellw. On visiting the 
Brandon woodyard on the 27th of October, 1879, I Avas greatly 
pleased to meet with an abundance of fine, well-developed 
specimens. It is remarkable that these two fungi should have 
hitherto only boon found in two such distant habitats as 
Kothiemurchiis in Inverness-shire, and Brandon in Korfolk, so 
much so that one is almost tonii)ted to believe some connexion 
must exist between them. Mr. D. C. Burlingham informs me 
that many years ago, when the E:xst Anglian Bailway was being 
constructed, a ship eanie to Lynn from Scotland; her name was the 
‘ Bothiemurchus,’ and she had a cargo of railway-sleepers, or, at 
any rate, of fir wood, whieh eauio from the old forest of 
Bothiemurchus. It seems highly probable to suppose that this 
forms the connecting link between the two stations. Xot that any 
of the wood originally brought by this ship is necessarily now in 
existence, nor that upon its remains grew either or both these 
lungi. It the wood in the lii*st instance only contained the 
mycelium, it is easy enough to see how it might have infected wood 
