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rather to the upper part of the County — than the south. 
Clitocybe zygophylla may be added, with Schulzerta Eyrei, the latter 
very unusual, so few of this genus being as ie known throughout 
the world—the spores are bluish-green—a figure may be found in 
the last number issued of “Grevillea;”? both of these only occur in 
the neighbourhood of the Grange Park. 
Cortinarius orichalceus is a peculiarity of the New Forest, Dr. Cooke 
pointed it out on the green near Emery Down, in front of the Swan 
Inn. Lactarius cyathula, under birches, on rising ground east of the 
Kennels, near Minstead, is another, the only places where these are 
known to grow. Boletus duriusculus is a third, though found sparingly 
in other places, but in Hampshire only in the Forest. 
The partiality of certain Fungi for places such as rotten wood is 
well known; but I would like to suggest the desirability of the 
quality of the soil (where possible) have a more prominent place in 
our descriptive notes. Flowering plants are located pretty definitely 
owing to the invention of the Watsonian provinces and their sub- 
divisions, but this is geographical. A geological enumeration 
would add still further information to the objects of our special study. 
Not much has yet been done in either direction; something of this 
kind might be of advantage in the future. May I illustrate my 
meaning, from what I have observed of certain species in my own 
district compared with the Forest; in the north of the County there 
is a large portion consisting of bare chalk, another of clay or chalk 
marl, and some Fungi year after year cling to the one district, 
irrespective of what goes on in the adjoining part. Particular species 
seem to keep very close to their own selections. 
On the chalk we find Amanita strobiliformis, Entolona Bloxami, 
Stropharia inuncta, Cortinarius dolabratus and rigens, also Clitocybe 
nebularis. Amanita strobiliformis, thought very generally to be among 
the rarer kinds, is with us in the months of August and early in 
September extremely abundant, so much so that scores may be seen 
destroyed by the labourer’s boot as he returns over the downs at 
the close of his day’s work ; indeed, we value this species next to the 
mushroom as one of the best for culinary purposes, cooked slowly in 
milk after being cut into pieces it makes no bad imitation of scolloped 
oysters. On one particular bank we can generally secure Boletus satanas; 
these half-dozen or so we may class as definitely preferring the chalk 
—Tricholoma Spermaticum, Russula vesca, Lactarius scrobiculatus and 
controversus, Psilocybe semilanceata, C litocybe zygophylla with Cantharellus 
cibarius—have a distinctive love for the clay or chalk marl. Our 
clay is not of the tenacious, glue like quality of some districts, but it 
seems to sufficiently influence the growth of the above species. 
As to the New Forest, with more sand in the composition of the 
soil, we have Tricholoma sejunctum, Lactarius cyathula, Clitocybe clavipes, 
Cortinarius orichalceus and sanguineus, Boletus duriusculus. None of 
