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fir wood species often found amongst heather at the margins of fir 
woods. Sometimes one can trace the attachment of the base of the 
stem to last year’s dead stumps of Pteris aquilina stems but not 
always. In colour it is one of the red brown group resembling L 
quietus, subdulcis, serifluus, etc. It differs mainly, however, in 
having when young a suggestion of liver colour, in the gills being 
rather distant and the margin of the pileus crenulate. It is very 
hygrophanous becoming when dry pale brown. ‘The great character 
is in the milk, which is white and which remains white for some 
considerable time but it eventually becomes pale sulphur yellow. 
Here again I am indebted to my esteemed friend M. Boudier. ‘The 
figures quoted by Fries as being those of L. theiogalus, namely— 
Bolton, t. 9, Krombholz t. 1 f. 23 and 24, and Bulliard t. 567 f. 2, 
may be of anything. M. Boudier, however, thinks the figures of 
Bulliard are L. chrysorrheus. The best figure of L. chrysorrheus is 
in Cooke’s “Illustrations” pl. 984. 
Lactarius heluus Fr. A common species commonly mistaken for 
an old L. torminosus. 1am informed by his son that Fries attached 
no special meaning to the word he/vus beyond yellow. Cooke’s Ill. 
pl. 974 is typical L. he/vus, but pl. 9g4 certainly is not. 
Marasmius urens Fr. Cooke Il. pl. 1,116 is far too dark on the 
pileus the real plant being more the hue of M. oreades. “Berk. 
Outlines” t. 14 f. 3 is a much better figure. It is an uncommon 
plant. I never have met withit but once and that was at Mattishall, — 
Norfolk, the former residence of the Rev. Canon Du Port. 
Marasmius cauticinalis With. is a_ beautiful yellow fungus | 
which for a few years grew abundantly on Merryhill Common near 
Hereford, under some Scotch fir trees. I have never seen it before 
nor since. The figure in the Ill. pl. 1,134 is much too dark on @ 
the pileus. 
It is, however, high time to stop, when one has devoted upwards 
of thirty years to the study of any particular subject and gets a | 
chance of talking about it he is apt to become wearisome. 
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