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a luxurious king to the inventor of a new pleasure. It is a pity that 
king is dead,—he lived so long ago, that he might just as well have lived 
a little longer,--for if he were living now we fungus-hunters might rejoice 
in a portion of his imperial wealth, and enhance our pleasure by teaching 
him a scientific appreciation of ‘ Fungi as food.’ ” 
Want of time unfortunately prevented the paper standing in Professor 
Boulger’s name (“ On Rhizocarpe® ”) from being read, albeit he had 
prepared a large number of diagrams and fresh and dried specimens to 
illustrate it. A few questions were asked on the several papers, and 
replied to by the writers, but there was no time for an extended discus¬ 
sion of any. Cordial votes of thanks were passed to the authors, and to 
those who had acted as Directors, and a most successful and interesting 
meeting was brought to a close by an inspection of the Fungi gathered 
during the day under the guidance of the botanists present. 
[On Saturday, October 21st, the Hackney Microscopical Society held a 
meeting in the Cliingford portion of Epping Forest for the examination 
and determination of Fungi, under the guidance of Dr. Cooke, Mr. 
Worthington Smith, and Mr. English. As this portion of the Forest has 
not yet been explored by the Club it may be interesting to quote a few 
remarks on the species observed kindly furnished by Mr. Smith :— 
“ The heavy downpour of rain, the driving wind, the scudding leaves, 
and the deep tenacious mud made botanising rather difficult. Two 
interesting species of 'the subgenus Flammula were speedily met with in 
Agaricus flavidus and spumosus. Some fin e specimens of Agaricus 
dry inns were gathered from the trees. Another tree produced several 
specimens of the beautiful, and by no means common, Agaricus adiposus, 
with a bright sulphury top covered with thick adipous gluten. The 
grassy places were thickly dotted with different species of Hygrophorus 
and the yellow Clavaria incequalis. Many specimens of Coprinus were 
met with, and Agaricus stercoriarius and A. appendiculatus . The Beech 
trees produced the beautiful A. mucidus and Polyporus cuticularis, and 
the old Oaks exhibited the vegetable beefsteak, Fistulina hepatica. The 
vegetable oyster, Agaricus ostreatus, was met with in several places. 
Amongst interesting species growing on the ground was Polyporus 
rufescens and many examples of the uncommon fungus named Agaricus 
worthingtonii by Professor Fries. An example or two of the edible 
A. procerus were found, with a large number of common species.”] 
Saturday, September 30th, 1882. —Ordinary Meeting. 
The thirty-first Ordinary Meeting of the Club (being the first meeting 
of the Winter Session) was held at the Head-quarters at seven o’clock, 
the President in the chair. 
Contributions to the Library were announced from Miss Saul (20 vols.), 
Professor Boulger, Mr. J. E. Harting, Mr. Andrew Johnston, Mr. 
Meldola, and Mr. Fisher Unwin. Miss Marian Ridley presented to the 
Museum an almost complete collection of British Ferns, neatly mounted, 
