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soft, somewhat flattened, sooty brown inside ; endoperidium globose 
a olobose-depressed sessile, umbilical centre orbicular, depressed, 
marginate; peristome conical, plicate-striate, fimbriate at the apex and 
twisted ; capilitium brown; spores globose, 3°5-4u diam., umber- 
oe ike ground, Hereford, November, 1870. W. G. Sm. Jour. 
Bot. XLI. (1903), p. 387. 
Sphaerobolus dentatus (With). W.Sm. Jour. Bot. XLI. (1903), p. 280. 
Peridium finely pilose with erect hairs, springing from scanty 
brownish mycelium, opening above in a 4-7 stellate manner, the rays 
clad with long white hairs, which at first converge over the opening ; 
outside pale livid-buff to vinous brownish, pale brown, or brown ; 
inside white, ivory, white-greyish, or faint olive-ivory ; ejecting a 
reddish-brown peridiolum. gin. diam., scattered. 
Dead elder, Failand, Somerset, R. Baker, August, 1888. 
The following Members have joined the British Mycological 
Society during the year 1903. 

Adams, Mr. Alfred, M.A., M.B., Bridgend House, West Looe, 
Cornwall. 
Amphlett, Mrs. Eliza A., Dalehurst, 7, Bardwell Road, Oxford. 
Clarke, Mr. James, Chapel House, Paisley. 
Claridge, Miss M., 8, Park Terrace, Oxford. 
Grafton, Miss May, Stoke Prior. 
Grant, Mr. Angus, Drumalan, Drumnadrochit. 
Lister, Mr. Arthur, F.R.S., Leytonstone and Highcliff, Lyme Regis. 
Lister, Miss Gulielma, Leytonstone and Highcliff, Lyme Regis. 
Miles, Miss Mary, L.L.A., Laurel Bank, Bridgend, Perth. 
Ogle, Mr. B. S., Hill House, Steeple Aston, Oxford. 
OFFICERS FOR THE SEASON 1903. 
President: The Rev. W. L. W. Eyre, M.A., Swarraton, Alresford, 
Hants. 
Vice-President : Professor H. Marshall Ward, D.Sc, F.R.S., &c., 
University Botanical Laboratory, Cambridge. 
Hon. Secretary and Treasurer: Carleton eas a Gale, VMAS <Szc:, 
34, Foregate Street, Worcester. 
Published 14th April, 1904. 
