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I foimcl one specimen in an unexpamle.l condition. At first sicdit 1 
ook It for a specimen of some Scleroderma, as it ^vas scaly amrvery 
l.ard; upon more careful examination, however, the fallacy was 
dispelled Now, this unexpanded specimen was attached to the 
grotim )y a root-like process, and, upon a careful examination of 
0 ler specimens, traces of the same structure were observable- 
ovvuig tothe habit the plant has of vaulting itself upwanls by a 
retraction of the rays, this peculiarity often escajics observation. 
uiing I 10 time which elap.scd between my seeing the first 
S| ecimcns and visiting the spot, one other very fine specimen was 
oum jy Mr. Ilebgin ; thi.s, at the re<piest of Lady Ffolkes, has 
icon sent to the Jh.yal Herbarium at Kew. Thi.s fungus was 
found at Gillingham and Ear.<ham by Mr. Woodward about 17<J0, 
and also ne.ar Norwich (Sowerby) about the same time. It ha.s not 
>oen found in Norfolk since, until the present specimens appeared. 
It has been tound in England by Mr. \Vollaston, about forty years 
ago, in Kent, and by him once since.— C. E. Plowright. 
Notk on thk occurrexce of Spakassis crispa, Fr., at 
0.4SM. I his remarkable fungus is but a comparatively recent 
addition to the fungus flora of Great IJritain. Its first occurrence 
was at Didlington, near Prandon, in 1864-5, when Admiral 
littord sent three fine specimens of “this noble addition to 
Kev naughton met with it in Shropshire, and brought specimens 
0 the hunpis boray of the Woolhope Club at Hereford. It ha.s 
been found in South-east Berkshire, and near Tunbridge Wells 
Lately it has been recorded from three localities in Scotland 
Classed by Fries with the Clavarel, it strikes the most casual 
observer as being very unlike at first sight the other members 
ot this oruer. Ihe ramulic are compressed, sinuous, and very 
intiicate. It usually ,s found under or near Fir-trees, and in 
the Cossey specimen I notice a Fir-needle which would seem to 
iiulicate that it forms no exception to the general rule. The 
Cossey woods have an almost classical celebrity to the mvcologist, 
rom the fiict that Sowerby found so many of his rare and 
noteworthy fungi in them; for, in his work on ‘EnMish 
lungi, over and over again do we find the words- "“In 
bir ^\ Ilham Jerningham’s plantations at Cossev, near Norwich ” 
