[Illustration: Plate 25. Fleshy fungi with wiry to tough stem: Spores white and borne on gills, fruit-body frequently reviving when moistened] ~Strobilurus stephanocystis~ (Hora) Singer has cystidia with rounded heads and grows on pine-cones. ~S. tenacellus~ (Fries) Singer has pointed cystidia and grows on pine-cones. ~S. esculentus~ (Fries) Singer has lance-shaped cystidia and grows on spruce cones. ~Baeospora myosura~ (Fries) Singer is tough and pale-coloured and is similar in general characters to species of _Strobilurus_, but has amyloid spores and fruits on pine-cones in the autumn. When discussing the specialised plant-substrates, such as cones, one must mention the small brown-spored, pale buff coloured agaric _Tubaria dispersa_ (Persoon) Singer, or _Tubaria autochthona_ (Berkeley & Broome) Saccardo, which grows on the ground under hawthorns, often in troops in summer and autumn, attached to old hardened hawthorn berries. (ii) Agarics of Pastures and Meadows (a) Agarics of rough and hill pastures ~Hygrocybe pratensis~ (Fries) Donk Butter mushroom _Cap_: width 20-80 mm. _Stem_: width 5-12 mm; length 30-70 mm. _Description_: Cap: convex then expanding to become plano-convex with a broad low umbo, tan, pale russet or even yellowish buff throughout or slightly darker at the centre. Stem: gradually thickened upwards, similarly coloured to the cap or paler if the cap is dark russet. Gills: pale buff, deeply decurrent and often connected up at their bases by veins. Flesh: buff or pale tan, thick and soft in the cap, slightly fibrous in the stem. Spore-print: white. Spores: medium-sized, ellipsoid to egg-shaped, hyaline under the microscope, 7-8 × 5 µm in size and not becoming bluish grey in solutions containing iodine. Marginal and facial cystidia: absent. _Habitat_ & _Distribution_: Common in pastures or on heaths from early summer to late autumn. _General Information_: A fungus easily recognised by the uniform buff-colour of the stem, cap and gills. As one might expect from the common name it is edible; it is held in high regard by many mushroom-pickers. Although ‘pratensis’ specifically means fields, reflecting the habitat of the fungus, this and related species can also be found on heaths and pastures often intermixed and forming a most interesting flora. The following are perhaps the most commonly seen: _H. lacma_ (Fries) Orton & Watling and _H. cinerea_ (Fries) Orton & Watling are similar in stature, but metallic grey in colour except for the persistently yellow stem-base in _H. lacma_. _H. subradiata_ (Secretan) Orton & Watling is flesh-coloured or brownish and _H. virginea_ (Fries) Orton & Watling is white. _H. nivea_ (Fries) Orton & Watling and _H. russocoriacea_ (Berkeley & Miller) Orton & Watling are much smaller, the former white and odourless and the latter off-white with a very strong smell of incense.