XXXVIU 



PROCEEDINGS, 



Field Meeting, 10th Octobee, 1896. 

 GOEHAMBURT PARK, ST. ALBANS. 



By the kind permission of tbe Earl of Yerulam and Mr. J. B. 

 Taylor, the annual Fungns Foray was held on the Gorhambury 

 estate, the members assembling at the London and jS"orth- Western 

 Station at two o'clock, walking along King Hany Lane and 

 through the Yerulam Woods and the "Hollows" into Gorhambury 

 Park, and returning by the Gorhambury Road and the Water 

 Walk by the side of the River Ver. 



The Society's Recorder of Fungi, Mr. George Massee, F.L.S., 

 would have been present had he not unfortunately been ill at the 

 time, and in his absence Mr. Hopkinson undertook the collection 

 of the fungi as well as the direction of the meeting, and sent to 

 Kew for Mr. Massee the same evening specimens of all the species 

 found by any of the party so far as he could recognize their dis- 

 tinctness. 



The specimens, which were packed in moss, arrived in good 

 condition, and Mr. Massee identified the species as follows, those 

 new to Hertfordshire being indicated by an asterisk : — 



Hymenomycetes. 

 Agariciis 



(Amanita) spissus, Fr. 



,, phalloides, Fr. 



,, excelsus, Fr. 

 (Amanitopsis) vaginatus, Fr. 

 (Collybia) fusipes, Bull. 



,, butryaceus, Fr. 



,, radicatus, Fr. 

 (Tricholoma) albellus, Fr.* 



,, terreus, Schaff. 



,, spermaticus, Fr.* 

 (CHtocybe) fragrans, Fr. 



,, cyatbiformis, Fr. 



,, brumalis, Fr. 



,, ectypus, Fr.* 

 (Laccaria) laccatxis, Berk. 

 (Mycena) riigosus, Fr. 



„ purus, Fr. 



,, polygrammus, Fr. 



,, galericulata, Fr. 



,, pseudopurus, Cke. 

 (Clitopilus) orcella, Bidl. 



,, prunulus, Scop. 

 (Inocybe) pyriodorus, Pers. 



,, incarnatus, Bres.* 



,, Bongardii, JFeissm.* 



,, geophyllus. Sow. 

 (Galera) tener Fr. 

 (Hypholoma) fascicularis, Suds. 



,, epixanthus, Fr. 



,, violaceo-ater, Letell.* 

 (Psalliota) hfemorrhoidarius, Schultz.* 



,, elvensis, £. ^ Br.* 



Coprinus atramentarhis, Fr. 



,, macrocephalus, B. S; Br.* 

 Russula nigricans, Fr. 



,, depallens, Fr. 



,, ocbroleuca, Fr. 



,, emetica, Fr. 



,, fallax, Fr.* 



,, delica, Fr.* 



,, rubra, Fr. 

 Lactarius subdulcis. Bull. 



,, blennius, Fr. 



,, volemus, Fr. 

 Hygrophorus eburneus, Fr, 



,, puniceus, Fr. 



,, psittacinus, Schceff.* 



,, virgineus, Fr. 



,, obrusseus, Fr. 

 Marasmius peronatus, Fr. 



,, ramealis, Fr. 

 Clavaria cristata, Holmsk.* 



,, cinerea, BtilL* 



,, abietina, Schum.* 

 Stereum spadiceiim, Fr.* 

 Polystictus hispidus, Fr. 



,, versicolor, Fr. 



Gasteromycetes. 

 Bo'N'ista nigrescens. Berk. 

 Lycoperdon pyriforme, Schaff. 

 Scleroderma verrucosum, Fr. 



Ascomycetes. 

 Helvella esculenta, Pers.* 

 Xylaria hypoxylon, Fr. 



