THE SHREWSBURY FORAY. 



2^th-2C)th Scplembcr, 1917. 



The twenty-first annual week's fungus foray of the ]3ritish 

 Mycological Society was Iield at Shrewsbury, on JMonday, 

 the 24th of September, 191 7. The members assembled at 

 the headquarters The George Hotel, Market Street, Shrews- 

 bury, where a room was reserved for the exclusive use of the 

 Society. In the evening Miss E. M, Wakefield placed out on 

 exhibition some eggs of a rare phalloid, which subsequentl}' 

 developed several handsome pi lei ; these were collected at 

 Chiswick, on a heap of stable refuse, and were assigned by 

 her to Lysurus borealis (Burt), P. Henn, but we should rather 

 refer them to Lysurus australiensis Cke. and Massee, which 

 is fully described, with plate, in our Transactions, Vol. IL, 

 57, Pi. 3. The Very Rev. David Paul brought a large 

 tuft of Pleurotus sapidus Kalchbr. from the Bishop's 

 Palace at Wells, and also exhibited a fine photo- 

 graph of Clathrus ruber (Micheli) Pers. (syn. cancel- 

 latus); these consisted of three specimens, two in the 

 egg state and one fully developed, and were found by 

 him at Kilmelford, Argyllshire, on the loth of September. 

 The Hon. Secretary reported that their past President, Mr. 

 E. W. Swanton, had informed him that Miss Phoebe Keef 

 about the same date gathered this rare phalloid in a wood 

 near Sea View, Isle of Wight. Mr. James Menzies sent on 

 some nice specimens of Melastiza miniata (Fuck.) Boud., 

 gathered by Mr. Charles Mcintosh at Dunkeld, and Mr. 

 A. A. Pearson brought from Wimbledon a specimen that he 

 referred to Galera antipus (Lasch) Fr, 



On Tuesday, the 25th of September, the members assem- 

 bled at the railway station and booked by the 10.5 a.m. 

 train to Plowden, via the Craven Arms. On their arrival 

 there at 11.35 they were met by Mr. R. Parry, who had 

 most kindly offered to conduct them through the Plowden 

 woods and had obtained permission to visit this estate from 

 Captain Plowden. Mr. Parry first led them down to the 

 bridge over the river Onny and then a traverse across the 

 fields was made in the direction of Plowden Hall. The 

 pastures yielded many specimens the most noteworthy in- 

 cluding Tricholoma brevipes (Bull.) Fr., Eccilia griseorubella 



