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Excerpt from The British Mycological Society (Recognosce Notum, Ignotum Inspice), Vol. 6: Transactions for the Season 1817, With Two Plates (One Coloured), And Numerous Blocks in the Text; Part I The twenty-first annual week's fungus foray of the British Mycological Society was held at Shrewsbury, on Monday, the 24th of September, 1917. The members assembled at the headquarters The George Hotel, Market Street, Shrews bury, where a room was reserved for the exclusive use of the Society. In the evening Miss E. M. Wakefield placed out on exhibition some eggs of a rare phalloid, which subsequently developed several handsome pilei; these were collected at Chiswick, on a heap of stable refuse, and were assigned by her to Lysurus borealis (burt), P. Henn, but we should rather refer them to Lysurus australiensis Cke. And Massee, which is fully described, with plate, in our Transactions, Vol. II., 57, Pl. 3. The Very Rev. David Paul brought a large tuft of Pleurotus sapidus Kalchbr. From the Bishop's Palace at Wells, and also exhibited a fine photo graph of Clathrus ruber (micheli) Pers. (syn. Cancel latus); these consisted of three specimens, two in the egg state and one fully developed, and were found by him at Kilmelford, Argyllshire, on the roth of September. The Hon. Secretary reported that their past President, Mr. E. W. Swanton, had informed him that Miss Phoebe Keef about the same date gathered this rare phalloid in a wood near Sea View, Isle of Wight. Mr. James Menzies sent on some nice specimens of Melastiza rniniata (fuck.) Boud., gathered by Mr. Charles mcintosh at Dunkeld, and Mr. A. A. Pearson brought from Wimbledon a specimen that he referred to Galera antifrus (lasch) Fr. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.