by gathering a few small specimens of Helvella in/iila, a fungus 
which had never before been found in Great Britain. This was 
in the month of September. After my return homo I visited 
Brandon, in November, and there found numerous magnillcent 
specimens of the Helvella ; some of them were eight or ten inches 
in height. Separated as those two localities are by some six 
hundred miles from each other, it is very remarkable that they 
should simultaneously produce two such rare species. Upon 
inrpiiry it appears that when the Eastern Counties Railway was 
first constructed, a ship load of fir wood was brought to Lynn 
from the Forest of Kothiemurchus, and used principally for 
sleepers. The probability i.s, that the mycelium of these fungi 
was thus imported into the county. Our knowledge of the life 
liistory of the larger fungi is very meagre, but it is a matter of 
common observation amongst mycologists that while the commoner 
species of Agarics recur annually in e.^actly the same spot, yet 
with many of the rarer species tliis annual recurrence does not 
take place. In our country fungologists are now by no means 
Aveak in point of numbers, and, moreover, they are all entluisiasts, 
more or less. Yet nowhere else have these two fungi — Avhich are 
exceptionally large in size, and otherwise such striking plants, as 
not easy to be OA'erlooked — been f|)und except at the tAvo places 
above mentioned. It is Avorth reniarking further, that Avhen they 
first appeared they Avere very abundant in point of numbers, but 
that after recurring two or three years they became each year less 
numerous, and finally disappeared. Doubtless they Avill reappear, 
either hero or elsewhere. "What becomes of them in the meantime 
is a cpiestion Avhich can be more easily speculated upon than 
solved. The appearance of rare fungi at long interwils is further 
illustrated by the magnificent Gender coli/ormis, Avhich, after nearly 
a century’s absence from the county, Avas refound at Grimstone in 
1880. Verpa dUjitali/ormis occurred at North Wootton in 1871, 
and although I visited the spot annually for several years, I Avas 
never able to meet Avith it again. In 1875, hoAvever, it occurred 
in great abundance at Terrington St. Clement’s ; but, although I 
have rigorously examined this habitat year after year, it has never, 
up to the present time, reappeared. That exceedingly rare Fungu.s, 
Conhjeep-s capitata, that SoAverby had sent to him from near Holt, 
toAvards the end of the last century, AAdiich groAvs parasitically 
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