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 A HISTORY OF STAFFORDSHIRE X. CEDOGONIACE^ Nostoc commune, Vauch. Bulbochaete setigera, Ag. csruleum, Lyng. verrucosum. Vauch. XL ULOTRICHE^E Schizogonium murale, Kdtz XVI. LYNGBY^E XII. CHROOLEPIDE^E Oscillaria tenuis, Ag. Chroolepus aureus (L.), KUtz ~ 1'mosa, Ag. nigra, Vauch. XIII. CH^TOPHORACE^: Lyngbia ochracea, Thur. Stigeoclonium nanum (Dillw.), Kdtz Draparnaldia glomerata, Ag. XVIII. CALOTRICHE^ - plumosa (Vauch.), Ag. Gloiotrichia natans, Thur. Chastophora pisirormis, Ag. BATRACHOSPERME ^ aendivxfolia, Ag. Batrachospermum moniliforme, Roth. CLASS II. PHYCOCHROMOPHYCE^: Ord. II. NEMATOGENEJE XV. NOSTOCE^ XXII. LEMANEACE^E Nostoc muscorum, Ag. Lemanea fluviatilis, Ag. THE FUNGI The following list of the fungi of Staffordshire is in no way a complete one ; the county has not been exhaustively examined from a botanical point of view. Many of the districts, such as the extensive woodlands about Trentham, Swinnerton and Maer, have yielded a rich fungus flora, among others Polyporus hispidus, P. abietinus^ P. frondosa y P. annosus, the esculent Boletus edulis and Fistulina bepatica, and in some of these woods Boletus subtomentosus and B. Jfavus are abundant, and in places where the soil has been burnt and on the dried twigs abundance of the singular Hydnum membranaceum has been seen. The esculent Cantbarellus cibarius is sometimes abundant in the woods, on the heathy lands the beautiful C. aurantiacus, and in boggy places near Betley C. lobatus. In many of these woodlands the beautiful but fetid Phallus impudicus is frequent, and in those of Swinnerton the rarer and less fetid Cyanophallus caninus has been found. In the district around Blymhill many rare species have been recorded in the long past, as Cortinarius vio/aceus, C. gentilis, Lactarius torminosus and the edible L. deliciosus, and frequently throughout the county the fairy ring fungus (Marasmius oreades], is abundant. In the limestone districts of the Wetton valley some of the rarer species of Peziza are found, the common morel (Morcbella esculenta), Helvetia crispa, 'Thelepbora canina and Boletus asper ; but to localize even a tithe of the more interesting species would occupy too much space ; all at present known to the writer are recorded below. The nomenclature is that of Fries' Hymenomycete JLuropcea^ and Berkley's Outlines of British Fungology ; the authorities quoted are Garner's Natural History of 'Staffordshire ; The Reports and Transactions of the North Staffordshire and Archaological Society and the writer. 70