266 
only on tlie hinder half ; it is not uncommon on Scotch Fir in the 
spring. I have hitherto had no opportunity of searching for 
G. abietls myself, hut it appears to occur in fallen cones of Spruce- 
lir in winter and spring. It has been recorded from Worcester- 
shire ; Forres, Morayshire; and, in cones of Abies Doiujlasi, 
Pitlochry, Perthshire. — James Edwards. 
Geaster coliformis (Dickson). The reappearance of this rare 
fungus in Norfolk, after a lapse of nearly eiglity years, is very 
remarkable; and a few particulars connected with it may be 
interesting to the Society. 
On the 25th September, 1880, I had brought to my house four 
specimens, which had been found a few days before by Mr. Philip 
Hibgin, at Hillington. One specimen was in magnificent 
condition ; it measured six inches across the rays, which were ten 
in number. The inner peridium was nearly globose, and had no 
less than forty-six ostiola upon it ; some of these openings were 
large and patent, others mere papules. The colour of the inner 
peridium was peculiar, and, unlike any other British Geaster, 
looking as if it were covered by an extremely thin coating of silver 
loaf. It measured two inches across and was minutely tuberculated. 
As far as I can make out it is supported upon seventeen pedicels, 
some perfect, some incomplete, and others, obviously the result of 
the fusion of two or more pedicels laterally. The other specimens 
were not in so good condition. In the largest the inner peridium 
was torn across, exposing to view the capillitium ; this consists 
of numerous coarse fiat fibres, branched at tlieir extremities, which 
are the continuations of the pedicels. On the 14th October I 
visited the spot from which these specimens were gathered; I 
found several additional ones, but all more or less withered. They 
were growing upon a hedge bank in a green lane (called the 
Swaflfham Eoad) amongst a large clump of hiettles ; there was also 
growing with them four specimens of Geaster timbatus. It has 
been suggested that Geaster coliformis is only the result of the 
fusion of several individuals of some other member of this genus ; 
but Ave have in Britain no other Geaster with a silvery, tuberculated, 
inner peridium; and the mere accidental occurrence of Geaster 
limbatus, Avhich is destitute of those characters, in the vicinity of 
Geaster coliformis, cannot bo much support to the above assumption. 
