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 BOTANY FRESHWATER ALGM The plants belonging to this group have been very imperfectly recorded. Mr. Lees, in his Botany of the Malvern Hills, has a list of only about twenty — mostly common species. The following list is all he records, and the nomenclature is that of Gray's Handbook, 1864 : — Tetraspora lubrica, Callithamnion aureus, C. barbatus, Batrachospermum atrum, Lemanea torulosa, L. fluviatilis, Cladophora fracta, Chcetophora rivu- laris, C. capillaris, 'Enteromorpha intestinalis, Prasiola calophylla, Lyngbya muralis, Ulva crispa, U. bullosa, Osa'llatoria limosa, Strigonema atrovirens, Nostoc commune, N. muscorum, Botrydina vulgaris, Palme I la cruenta. In the Transactions of the Worcestershire Naturalists' Club, 1897—99, p. 3, the occurrence of Tetraspora explanata, Agardh., at Lower Wick, is recorded for the first time in Britain. The Desmidiacece and Diatomacece appear to have been totally neg- lected. FUNGI The fungus flora of the county has been investigated very little owing to few botanists taking up the study of mycology. Notwithstanding this neglect, and the meagre dimensions of the county list, a few noteworthy plants have been gathered in Worcestershire. Amongst these we may enumerate Amanita aureola, Habberley Valley, Lepiota submarasmioides, near the Valley of the White-leaved Oak, Lepiota leucothites, near the Holly Bush Pass, Tricholoma glaucocanum, Wyre Forest, and Coprinus squamosus, Hanbury Park. All of these were recorded as British for the first time, whilst the following species were entirely new and unknown before, Collybia veluticeps, Claines, Flammula rubicundula, Wyre Forest, and Coprinus roseotinctus. Ash Plantation, Temple Laughern. The authority for the following list is Cooke's Handbook of British Fungi, with emendations from Fries, Lister, Massee, Plowright, Grevillea, and the Transactions of the British Mycological Society. BASIDIOMYCETES Hymenomycetes I. Agariclnece Amanita phalloides, Fr. var. verna, Bull. — mappa, Fr. — pantherina, D.C. — muscaria, Fr. — aureola, Kalch. — rubescens, Fr. — spissa, Fr. — nitida, Fr. Amanitopsis vaginata, Roze. — strangulata, Fr. — adnata, W. G. Smith Lepiota procera, Scop. — permixta, Barla. — rachodes, Vitt. var. puellaris, Fr. — prominens, Viv. — excoriata, SchasfF. — acutesquamosa, Weinm. — Friesii, Lasch. — Badhami, Berk. — clypeolaria, Bull. — submarasmioides, Speg. — felina, Pers. — metulsspora, B. & Br. — cristata, A. & S. — erminea, Fr. — holosericea, Fr. 69 Lepiota leucothites, Vitt. — cepasstipes, Sow. — carcharias, Pers. — granulosa, Batsch. — amianthina, Scop. — illinita, Fr. Armillaria mellea, Vahl. Tricholoma sejunctum, Sow. — spermaticum, Fr. — resplendens, Fr. — acerbum, Bull. — flavo-brunneum, Fr. — albo-brunneum, Pers. — ustale, Fr. — rutilans, SchaefF. — columbetta, Fr.