[105] _Urtica Romana_, which is again referred to as _U. mas_ near the end of the third letter and as being found at Gorleston, is the Roman Nettle, _U. pilulifera_. In 1834 the Pagets ("Nat. Hist. of Great Yarmouth") reported it as still found under old walls at Gorleston, "but rarer than formerly," and it is only in recent years that it has been exterminated, owing to building operations in that locality. [P] This letter, evidently a copy as shown by the heading "My father to Dr. Meret," is in the writing of Dr. Edwd. Browne. [MS. SLOANE 1830. FOL. 39-40.] No. II. _Fol. 39._] "_My second letter to Dr Meret Aug xiiii 1668._" Honord Sr I receiued your courteous letter & am sorry some diuersions have so long delayed this my second vnto you. You are very exact in the account of the fungi. I have met with two,[106] which I have not found in any Author, of which I have sent you a rude draught inclosed. The first an elegant fungus Ligneus found in an hollow sallowe I haue one of them by mee butt without a very good opportunitie dare not send it fearing it should bee broken vnto some it seemed to resemble some noble or princely ornament of the head & so might bee called fungus Regius vnto others a turret, top of a cupola or Lanterne of a building & so might bee named fungus pterygoides, pinnacularis or Lanterniformis you may name it as you please. The second fungus Ligneus teres Antliarum or fungus ligularis longissimus consisting [of _crossed out_] or made of many wooddy strings about the bignesse of round poynts or Laces some about half a yard long shooting in a bushie forme from the trees wch serue vnderground for pumpes. I have obserued diuers especially in norwich where wells are sunck deep for pumpes. [106] Dr. Plowright informs me that "it is impossible to say with certainty what the first named Fungus is; the description suggests some form of Polyporus perhaps, _P. varius,_ which is a ligneous species and occurs frequently on willows in Norfolk. The second is the abortive form of _Polyporus squamosus_, which is well figured by many of the older botanists, for instance under the name of _Boletus rangiferinus_, by Bolton, t. 138, and _Boletus squamosus_, var. _rangiferinus_, by Hooker, 'Flora Londinensis,' new series. In many cases no pileus at all is formed and it used then to be referred to Clavaria." The Phalloides is _Phallus impudicus_, L., a very common species in this county and even occurring in some of the city gardens where its exceedingly offensive odour renders it very undesirable. Fungus rotundus is the well-known _Lycoperdon giganteum_, Fr., which sometimes reaches a very large size. The fungus phalloides found not farre from norwich large & very fetid answering the description of Hadrianus junius I have a part of one dryed by mee. Fungus rotundus maior I haue found about x inches in Diameter & half [_sic_, have?] half a one dryed by mee.