Coloured Figures of English Fungi or Mushrooms

HELVELLA RELHANI Relhan’s Helvella.

THE Rev. Mr. Relhan found three specimens of this plant growing at a little distance from each other on the north side of Gogmagog Hills. The upper side of the pileus was silky, and the edges slightly fringed with the same silky membrane, like Agaricus araneosus.

There seems some affinity between this little fungus and Lycoperdon phalloides (Dickson, Fasc. 1. 24), figured by Mr. Woodward in the Philosophical Transactions vol. 74, 423, t. 16, and in Dr. Smith’s Spicilegium t. 12. See also Phallus conicus (Flora Danica t. 1554).

RETICULARIA HEMISPHÆRICA Hemispherical net-fungus Bulliard t.

GATHERED in Hampstead and Hornsey woods, Wanstead gardens, etc., in moist places, growing on decaying plants of various kinds, on mosses, sticks, etc., in all directions.

PEZIZA EPIDENDRA Tree-dwelling cup fungus Bulliard t. 467.

THIS beautiful fungus was found at Camberwell among rotten sticks, sometimes protruding from a