LIST OF PLATES 
The coloured ones are marked by an asterisk. Excepting ivhere otherwise 
indicated, the plates are from drawings by Miss M. K. Spittal. 
PLATE FACING PAGE 
I. * Common Winter Species - Frontispiece 
II. Development in Gasteromycetes [E. W. S.] - - 9 
III. Rapidity of Growth in the Phalloidaceae [C. G. Lloyd] - n 
IV. Development in Hymenomycetes [E. W. S.] - - 13 
V. Development in Ascomycetes [E. W. S.] - - . 15 
VI. Dispersal of Spores [E. W. S.] - - - 19 
VII. ^Common in Fir Woods - - - 23 
VIII. ^Common in Beech Woods - - - 23 
IX. ^Common in Open Pastures - - - 23 
X. Small Agarics occurring on Dead Leaves, etc. - • 23 
XI. Large Fungi Parasitic on others - - - 25 
XII. A destructive Fir-Wood Parasite ( Fomes annosus) - - 28 
XIII. Destructive to Living Trees - - - 30 
XIV. Parasites on Living Leaves, etc. - - - 32 
XV. *Some Edible Species - - • - - 35 
XVI. Diagrams Explanatory of some Terms [E. W. S.] - 55 
XVII. Truffles and False Truffles - - - - 58 
XVIII. Common Earth-balls [C. G. Lloyd] - - 60 
XIX. Birds’-nest Fungi (Nidulariaceae) - - - 62 
XX. Two Common Puff-balls [C. G. Lloyd] - - 65 
XXL Some Typical Puff-balls [C. G. Lloyd] - - 66 
XXII. Some Rare Earth-stars [C. G. Lloyd] - - 68 
XXIII. Earth-stars (Geastrae) [C. G. Lloyd] - - -70 
XXIV. Stinkhorn Fungi (Phalloidaceae) [C. G. Lloyd] - - 72 
XXV. Common Stinkhorn ( Phallus impudicus ) [C. G. Lloyd] - 72 
