. The Gardeners' chronicle : a weekly illustrated journal of horticulture and allied subjects. n boundfor Loughton was Mr. FlaxmanSpurrell, surgeon, ofLesnes Heath, Dartford, the gentleman who hasaided so much in disinterring the works of Paljeolilhicman and other extinct animals, from the DartfordSands, and who, with his son, Mr. Flaxman Spurrell,and Professor Boyd Dawkins, conducted a number ofManchester, Middlesex, and Kentish geologists, in-cluding the writer, over the Dartford pits last Spurrell, with a quick geologic eye, took thecream-coloured, sponge-like masses for a series
. The Gardeners' chronicle : a weekly illustrated journal of horticulture and allied subjects. n boundfor Loughton was Mr. FlaxmanSpurrell, surgeon, ofLesnes Heath, Dartford, the gentleman who hasaided so much in disinterring the works of Paljeolilhicman and other extinct animals, from the DartfordSands, and who, with his son, Mr. Flaxman Spurrell,and Professor Boyd Dawkins, conducted a number ofManchester, Middlesex, and Kentish geologists, in-cluding the writer, over the Dartford pits last Spurrell, with a quick geologic eye, took thecream-coloured, sponge-like masses for a series ofmagnificent examples of teeth of Elephas , indeed, they very much resembled ; but theambrosial fragrance, so different from that pertainingto elephants teeth, soon advised him of the truenature of the treasure. Two fungologists carried thefish baskets to the Crown Hotel, and lovinglyplaced the Sparassis in position in the room set apartfor the fungoid exhibition of the day. Dr. M. C. Cooke was one of the first fungographersto arrive at Loughton, accompanied by Dr, H, X 400Fig. 90.—cvsTiDiA of cofrinus aratus, Wharton ; soon after Dr. Braithwaite was on thespot with Mr. Spurrell, and many other professionalsand amateurs. Doctors and surgeons are very usefulat fungus meetings, in the event of a sudden incon-venience. Seventy persons were expected, but nearlya hundred excursionists really joined the Club foray. Mr. James English, of Epping, was very useful, andMr. E. M. Holmes being also with the party, Crypto-gamic botany in all its branches was fairly well repre-sented by experts. The section of the Forest searched included thedistrict of High Beech and jNIonks and TheydonWoods. Fungi were fairly abundant, and as , Dr. Wharton, Mr. Spurrell, and the writerwere in the Forest with the party all the day very fewspecies went unnamed. Ilygrophorus eburneus wasvery abundant, a white and sticky species, said to beedible ; a close ally and consort of th
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