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THE BASIDIOMYCETES OF SUFFOLK BY ARTHUR MAYFIELD,
F.L.S.
A M O N G the Basidiomycetes (so called because they produce their spores on minute cellular processes called Basidia) are some of the largest, most beautiful, and best known of the Fungi. T h e y include the puff-balls, geasters or earth-stars, mushrooms and toadstools, etc. Most of them are saprophytes growing upon the decaying vegetable matter in the soil, upon old woodorfallen branches, or on leaves decaying on the ground. T h e article on Fungi contributed to the 1911 Victoria History of Suffolk by the late Rev. E. N . Bloomfield includes 327 species and varieties of the higher Basidiomycetes. T h e present list, in which the arrangement and nomenclature are those of Carleton Rea's " British Basidiomycetae" 1922, incorporates all the species in M r . Bloomfield's list with the addition of 185 kinds (marked with asterisks) more recently accredited to the County. Synonyms are added where the nomenclature differs f r o m that used in the Victoria History. Beside those of my own gathering several new species were discovered by our members during their excursions to Gosbeck (15 Oct. 1933) and Bentley (4 Nov. 1934) and I am also indebted to M M . E. A. Ellis, A. B. Hurrell, and S. C. Porter for many additional records. Localities are given for those species described by Rea as " uncommon " or " rare " ; those for which I am personally responsible are initialled (A.M.).
GASTEROMYCETALES.
Cynophallus caninus (Huds.) Fr. In woods.. Phallus impudicus (Linn.) Pers. Stinkhorn. Woods and heaths. Phallus impudicus var. iosmos (Berk.) Cke. Rare. Lowestoft (Cooke). Lycoperdon giganteum (Batsch.) Pers. Pastures and gardens. L. caelatum (Bull.) Fr. Heaths and pastures. L. saccatum (Vahl.) Fr. Heaths and pastures. *L. depressum Bon. Heaths and pastures. L. astropurpureum Vitt. Woods and heaths. U n c o m m o n . Hardwick near Bury, 1856 (E. Skepper). L. perlatum Pers. ( = L. gemmatum). Woods and pastures. L. pyriforme (SchaefF.) Pers. On stumps in woods. *L. pusillum (Batsch.) Pers. On heaths. Bovista nigrescens Pers. On heaths. B. plumbea Fr. Pastures and heaths. Myriostoma coliforme (Dicks.) Cda. (Geaster). On sandbanks. Rare. Mettingham (Dickson).