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THE FUNGUS FORAY AND FEAST OF 

 THE WOOLHOPE CLUB. 



October 21-4, 1873. 



An unusual amount of interest attached to the last meeting of the 

 Woolhope Club for the year 1873, on account of the number and eminence 

 of the guests, learned in mycology, who were invited to take part in the 

 proceeding's. Immediately upon the pleasant fact being ascertained that 

 the veterans Berkeley and Broome with some half-dozen other foremost 

 mycologists would honour the Woolhopians with their presence, it was agreed 

 to map out a programme aupplimenting that of the actual club day, October 

 23rd, and to arrange excursions for Tuesday, the 21st, Wednesday, the 22ud, 

 and Friday, the 24th, to other fimgus fields in the neighbourhood of head 

 quarters. By this plan a wider range of country was embraced by the scien- 

 tific few who accompanied the President and Dr. Bull to Mynde and 

 Bryngwyn, Dinedor, Moccas, &c., on the bye-days; whilst the great day 

 of the club, the Thursday, was more especially notable for the interesting 

 excursion to Holm Lacy park and gardens, and for the success of the annual 

 dinner at the Green Dragon, in point of numbers, entertainment mental and 

 bodily, and the display of fungi, esculent and otherwise, upon the sideboard. 

 But it behoves us to give, as far as space will allow, a faint resume of the 

 week's proceedings ; and therefore our readers must suppose a party of ten 

 or twelve, among whom were Mr. C. E. Broome, F.L.S., the Rev. W. 

 Houghton, F.L.S., Mr. Jamea E«nny, Mr. Worthington Smith, F.L.S., 

 Mr. J. Griffith Morris, Mr. H. C. Moore, Mr. W. Phillips, with Dr. 

 Bull and the Rev. James Davies (President), to start from the Green 

 Dragon in a break, at the hour of 10 a.m., on Tuesday, the 21st, and 

 proceed, after a little detour towards Belmont, to the Haywood Forest, 

 from which, after due search and divers finds, they drove on to Mynde 

 Park, walking thence, after hospitable refreshment, to the grounds and 

 mansion of Bryngwyn, where the High Sheriff entertained the band of 

 foragers to a Ivmch-dinner at dusk. Of the rarer fungi found in this day's 

 excursion the following may be mentioned. In the fir plantation near the 

 Pro-Cathedral at Belmont, where the first halt was made, Agaricus 



