ranch of their freshness through the win te r; and the extreme base
of the stipes continues fresh for many years.
This variety, by many considered as a spooios, is common, and
doubtless generally distributed, though not always woll discriminated
from Lastrea dilatata; tho records of its distribution are, consequently,
not froo from doubt. I t however grows generally in damp
shady places, and occurs over the whole of England. In Wales it
seems less general, and is there most plentiful in the southern
parts. In Scotland and in Ireland it is apparently raro. Its range
in elevation appears to he between the coast level, and an altitude
of about 600 feot in England, or probably considerably more m
Scotland. Tho following aro the habitats :—
Cornwall: about Ponzanoc. Devonshire: Eingal
Bridge; Exwioh IVood, near Exetor, B. J . Gray; Eggesford,
II . F. Dempster; Barnstaple, G. Jachson. Somersetshire: Selworthy,
and elsewhere.
Hampshire. Isle of W ig h t: Tinker’s Hole, Apse
Castle, and elsewhere. Dorsetshire. Sussex: Ardingly, J I Xmas;
Woolbedding, near Midhurst, F. Bourdillon; Tilgato Forest, J .
Lloyd; Tunbridge "Wells.
Thames.—Hertfordshire : Ball’s Wood, Hertford ; North Mimms;
Hatfield, etc. Ken t: Chislehurst; Canterbury, etc. Middlesex.
Surrey: Gomshall; Combe Wood; Wimbledon; Barnes, T. M .;
Portnall Park, Virginia Water, T. 31, etc. Buokinghamshire:
Fulmer, J . Lloyd; Black Park, Dr. Allchin. Essex: Epping;
Danbury; Coggeshall; Pod’s Wood, Tiptree, E. Hall; Kavanagh
IVood, Brentwood, S. F. Gray.
Ouse.—Suffolk. Norfolk: Surlingham Broad, near Norwich;
Sooulton Mere, G. J . Chester; Bawsey, near Lynn, Dr. Allchin;
Loddon, Bev. J . J . Smith; Holt Lows, Bev. W. H. Girdlestone,
etc. Cambridgeshire: Fulbourne. Northamptonshire.
Severn.—Warwickshire: North Wood, Arhury H a ll; Bin ley ;
P u g b y ; Chesterton Wood; Pounsel-lano, T. Kirk. Gloucestershire.
Monmouthshire: Pont-y-pool, T. II . Thomas. Herefordsh
ire : The Horls, near Ross, W. H. Purchas. Worcestershire:
Bewdley, 3Iiss Hall. Staffordshire: Needwood; Wolverhampton.
Shropshire: Whitchurch, B . JF. Bawson; Bomere Pool and Sho-
more Moss, near Shrewsbury, Bev. JV. A . Leighton; Shirlet, near
Brosoley, G. 3Iaiv.
Nottinghamshire: Paplewiok; Oxton Bogs; Wollaton,
E. J . Loive. Leiocstorshire: Nethersoall, Bev. A . Bloxam. Derbyshire,
R. 31. Norman. ^
Mersey.— CYeANa-. Wyhunhury Moss, near Nantwioh, B. JV.
Ratvson; Ashton Moss, I I Buckley; Delamere Forest. Lancashire:
Chat Moss; Lowgill, H. Shepherd; Woolston Moss, T. G. Eylands,
and Risley Moss, near Warrington; Lovenshulmo, S. F. Gray.
Yorkshire : Shoffiold; Richmond ; Ingleborough ; Don-
oastor; Lookby Car; Terrington Car; York; Kildale, JV. Mudd;
Ilackness, A . Clapham; Thirsk.
T y n e .— E m E a m - . Waldridge Foil, noar Durham, J. 3Itchmson;
Northumberland: Ohivington IVood, Bev. B . Taylor.
Ya/jes._Cumborland: Red-house; Keswick, F. J . A . Hort. Westmoreland
; Windermere, F. Clowes. Isle of Man.
S. JVales.—Brecknockshire. Glamorganshire. Carmarthenshire.
N. JVales.—Carnarvonshire.
JF. Lotvlands.— ? Dumfriesshire, P. Gray.
E. Lowlands— ? Edinburghshire.
A. Forfarshire : Roscobie, A . Croall; Guthrie IVoods,
A . Croall. Perthshire : Dunkold, A . T a it; and elsewhere, A . Croall.
JF. Highlands.—? Argyleshire. Dumhartonshirc : Tarhet, Y 31.
N. Ross-shire : Brahan Castle, Dingwall, Sir JJl C.
Trevelyan, Bart., 3Iiss 3Iurray.
JF. Jsfes.—North Uist. Harris. Lewis.
CT&ig,..-Monaghan : Dartrey, C. L. Darby. Londonderry : near
Dungivon, D. Bloore.
Connaught.— Galway : Connemara.
L e iu s tc r .-N ld d ow . Newtown, Mt. Kennedy, B. Barrmgton,
and elsowhero, D. 3Ioore. YYstmeath : Mullingar ; and not unfrequent
in Ireland, D. Moore.
M u n s t e r .— J i e i T j : Killarney, E. J . Lowe.
3 strigosa (M.). This is a form of the spinulosa t3q)e, and is
remarkable chiefly for the spiiiy-tooth of tho margins of the pinnules
J'
i '