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THE SELBY FORAY. 



gth-i^th September, 1918. 



The twenty-second annual week's Fungus Foray was held at 

 Selby, from September 9th to September 14th, 1918. Until 

 immediately before the Foray the weather unfortunately had 

 been very dry, and the harvest of fungi was therefore smaller 

 than had been expected in such a favourable locality. Microfungi 

 were fairly varied. As a rule these follow quickly after rainy 

 weather has set in. 



The meeting was held in conjunction with that of the York- 

 shire Naturalists' Union, and the latter, with a few members 

 of the British Mycological Society, began work on the previous 

 Saturday, September 7th. Bishop's Wood, Camblesforth, 

 Cliffe Common and Staynor Wood were visited, and conse- 

 quently a number of fungi had been collected and laid out for 

 inspection by the time the majority of the party assembled. 



The headquarters were at the Londesborough Arms Hotel, 

 where a large room was available for holding meetings and 

 exhibiting the specimens. Here on Monday evening, September 

 9th, Dr. H. Wager opened the proceedings by delivering an 

 interesting and suggestive popular address on "Fungi" to a 

 large audience composed of members of both Societies and of 

 the Selby Natural History Society. After the lecture members 

 examined the various exhibits which had been brought. Mr. H. 

 J. Wheldon showed a small collection of water-colour drawings 

 of Lichens, Ascomycetes, and Uredineae. Miss E. M. Blackwell 

 had brought from the sand-dunes near Liverpool a tufted form 

 of Mycena acicnla, and Miss C. A. Cooper showed specimens of 

 TricJioloma sordidum and Lcntiniis lepideus from Castleford. 



On Tuesday morning the party booked by the 11.23 ^■'^'^• 

 train to Burton Salmon. During an hour's wait at Church 

 Fenton, necessitated by the vagaries of the train service, a 

 few common species were found. On arrival at Burton Salmon 

 the party at once set out for Byram Park, permission to visit 

 which had been given by Sir John Ramsden. The grounds were 

 thoroughly explored, and a fair number of interesting fungi 

 secured, particularly pasture-loving Agarics. Lepiota Bucknallii , 

 easily recognised by its smell of gas-tar, Tricholoma acerhum, 

 Plutens ephehius, Leptonia sericella, L. incana, L. chalyhea. 



