00llj0p^ J3.ataaltsts' fidh Club. 



THE FUNGUS FORAY, 1879. 



TTFHE Forays occurred as usual this year. The following leading English 

 X mycolog^ists being present : — The Rev. M. J. Berkeley, Messrs. Broome, 



Cooke, Lees, Plowright, Phillips, Cecil Sp. Perceval, Renny, G. Worthing- 

 ton Smith, Vize, &c. — with M. Maxime Cornu, Quelet, and Emile Boudier from 

 France. 



For the Club day, Thursday, October 2nd, the foray was fixed for the woods 

 at Foxley. Dinner was held as usual at the Green Dragon, after which a paper 

 was read by M. C. Cooke, M.A., L.L.D., entitled : " Croutes aux Champignons." 



After dinner, a soirtSe was held at the house of Mr. Cam ; and during the 

 course of the week papers were read as follows : — " On the Influence of Situation, 

 Soil, and Season on the Growth of the Larger Fungi," by Cecil H. Spencer 

 Perceval, Esq. " The Fungi of our Dwelling Houses,'" by William Phillips, Esq. 

 "On the importance that should be attached to the dehiscence of Asci in the 

 Classification of the Discomycetes," by William Phillips, Esq. "A New Genus 

 of Discomycetes, " by Dr. Cooke. "Quelque nouvelles especes de champignons 

 trouvees en 1879 (Jura et Vosges)," by M. le Dr. L. Quelet. 



THE INFLUENCE OF SEASON, SOIL, AND SITU- 

 ATION ON THE GROWTH OF THE LARGER 

 FUNGL 



[By Cecil H. Sp. Perceval— Read October, 1879.] 



I purpose in this pajjer, to state a few observations I have made, with regard to 

 some of the larger fungi ; first, as to the season at which they occur ; secondly, as 

 to the soil they appear to prefer ; and thirdly, as to the situation in which they 

 are usually found. 



That it may not be assumed that these observations are the result of study 

 over a limited area, I will mention that they were made principally in the follow- 

 ing Counties, — Somersetshire, Devonshire, Gloucestershire, Herefordshire, Sussex, 

 Surrey, Warwick.shire, Lincolnshire, Yorkshire, and Northumberland. 



