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much of their freshness through the winter; and the extreme base 
of the stipes continues fresh for many years. 
This variety, by many considered as a species, is common, and 
doubtless generally distributed, though not always well discriminated 
from Lastrea dilatata; the records of its distribution are, conse- 
quently, not free from doubt. It however grows generally in damp 
shady places, and oceurs over the whole of England. In Wales it 
seems less general, and is there most plentiful in the southern 
parts. In Scotland and in Ireland it is apparently rare. Its range 
in elevation appears to be between the coast level, and an altitude 
of about 600 feet in England, or probably considerably more in 
Scotland. The following are the habitats :— 
Peninsula.—Cornwall: about Penzance. Devonshire: Fingal 
Bridge; Exwick Wood, near Exeter, R. J. Gray; Eggesford, 
H. F. Dempster; Barnstaple, C. Jackson. Somersetshire: Sel- 
worthy, and elsewhere. 
Channel—Hampshire. Isle of Wight: Tinkers Hole, Apse 
Castle, and elsewhere. Dorsetshire. Sussex: Ardingly, F. Evans; 
Woolbedding, near Midhurst, F. Bourdillon; Tilgate Forest, J. 
Lloyd ; Tunbridge Wells. 
Thames.—Herttordshire : Ball’s Wood, Hertford ; North Mimms; 
Hatfield, ete. Kent: Chislehurst; Canterbury, etc. Middlesex. 
Surrey: Gomshall; Combe Wood; Wimbledon; Barnes, T. M.; 
Portnall Park, Virginia Water, T. M., ete. Buckinghamshire : 
Fulmer, J. Lloyd; Black Park, Dr. Allchin. Essex: Epping ; 
Danbury; Coggeshall; Pod's Wood, Tiptree, E. Hall; Kavanagh 
Wood, Brentwood, S. F. Gray. 
Ouse.—Suffolk. Norfolk: Surlingham Broad, near Norwich; 
Scoulton Mere, G. J. Chester; Bawsey, near Lynn, Dr. Allchin; 
Loddon, Rev. J. J. Smith; Holt Lows, Rev. W. H. Girdlestone, 
etc. Cambridgeshire: Fulbourne. Northamptonshire. 
_ Severn.—Warwickshire: North Wood, Arbury Hall; Binley ; 
Rugby; Chesterton Wood; Rounsel-lane, T. Kirk. Gloucester- 
shire. Monmouthshire: Pont-y-pool 7. H. Thomas. Hereford- 
shire: The Horls, near Ross, W. H. Purchas. Worcestershire: 
Bewdley, Miss Hall. Staffordshire: Needwood; Wolverhampton. 

