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Field Notes. 
Visiting the place again on the 19th, I found there were 
many new growths, but the great majority had been destroyed 
by cattle trampling over them, and a great number had rotted, 
leaving the grass as if it had been sprinkled with ink. — R. 
Fortune. 
Abundance of Coprinus comatus at Lockwood. — This 
fungus has been unusually abundant on an old site at Lockwood 
this year. There were a good few from the middle of August 
into September, after which I was unable to visit the place 
for a few weeks. When I again went on October 5th, the 
ground for a small area was literally covered with them, a 
great quantity of which had matured and decayed into the 
characteristic black mass. Beside these there were innumerable 
sound ones and I gathered seventeen pounds weight in a very 
few minutes. The crop continued very prolific during the 
succeeding days, for between the 5th and the 12th I gathered 
thirty pounds, although only picking the ‘ best ’ ; of the 
overgrown ones and very tiny buttons there still remained 
large quantities. This fungus is a delicacy worthy a place on 
any table. — Charles Mosley, Lockwood. 
Coprinus comatus. — In Dr. M C. Cooke’s book on ‘ Fdible 
and Poisonous Mushrooms,' reviewed in The Naturalist, 
March, 1895, page 81, this is said to be one of the best of 
edible species, and common especially on waste ground, building 
plots, etc., in and near towms. It generally grows in clusters 
with a long whitish shaggy cap, the cap and stem being 
occasionally eight or nine inches high, not uncommonly five or 
six. It is tender and delicious cooked in any way, and cannot 
be mistaken for anything else, but should be cooked while 
young and quite white and sound. It has long been known 
around Huddersfield, and about Hebden Bridge and Halifax 
for its edible qualities ; sometimes called ‘ com-eat-us ’ among 
the Halifax botanists. It prefers ‘ made ’ ground, town tips 
especially, and comes up occasionally in newly laid lawns. — C. C. 
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‘ Charles Waterfall. Plants from the County of Chester in his Collection, 
1910-14.’ 8vo, 10 pages. During his residence in the city of Chester 
(1910-14), Mr. Charles Waterfall, F.L.S., has not been idle so far as the 
observation of the flora of Cheshire is concerned. Twenty-six localities 
have been visited and a florula of each is given in the pamphlet. One is 
pleased to see that in highly cultivated Cheshire are still be to found such 
species as Ranunculus Lenormandi Schultz, R. Lingua Linn., Euphorbia 
portlandica Linn., J uncus maritimus Linn., Butonius umbellatus, Senecio 
sarracenicus Linn., Stratiotes Aloides Linn., Drosera anglica Huds., 
Andromeda polifolia Linn., Acorns Calamus Linn., Cochlearia anglica 
Linn., and Lastrcga Thelypteris Bory. The lists give confirmation of many 
previous records, notably those for Delamere Forest. Mr. Waterfall 
deserves congratulation on his continued powers to tramp about the 
countryside. A few printers’ errors have been overlooked in the cor- 
rection of the sheets, but for all that, there is evidence that good work 
has been done of late bv our veteran botanist. 
Naturalist, 
