In Re Fungi

Abstract

IT may allay the alarm of your correspondent “W. G. S.” as to the decay of fungology in England, as far, at least, as one of the cases which he quotes is concerned, to be informed that so careful and critical a student of fungi as Mr. W. G. Smith confirmed the determination referred to, and on the faith of the abnormal specimen, included this rare and very critical species without any hesitation among the Middlesex fungi in the “Middlesex Flora,” p. 408. Your correspondent “W. G. S.” has missed the point of the paragraph from the Journal of Botany which he criticises. The specimens of this fungus collected by Mr. Wooster at Whitehall Gardens have a regular and normally developed pileus, and were in striking contrast to the “abnormal specimens” (W. G. Smith, l. c.) from the Goswell Road.