Resupinate Hymenomycetes. Wakefield & Pearson. 143 



Cups minute, very crowded, forming a compact, effused 

 layer, tfie whole having the appearance of a grey Poria, the 

 separate cups scarcely visible to the naked eye. Each cup 

 about 5 mm. in diameter, externally whitish or tinged ochra- 

 ceous, minutely hairy, hymenium grey. Basidia clavate, 

 20-25 X 6-7 jLt. Spores subglobose, 5-6 x 4-4-5 /x. 



On rotten wood, Weybridge, Sept. 1918, Rev. P. Alexander, 

 O.J. 



The minute, crowded, greyish cups, and the globose spores 

 distinguish this from the other British species of Solenia. 



Sole Ilia anomala Fr. 



Poria hymenocystis Berk, et Br. 



OBSERVATIONS ON THE FUNGI OF THE 

 LANCASHIRE AND CHESHIRE SAND-DUNES. 



By Harold J. Whcldoii, F.C.I.S. 



The vegetation of the sand-dunes presents a remarkable 

 range of species of fungi for the study of systematists and 

 biologists and to both affords unique problems, and as I have 

 had the opportunity of observing the fungi of the dunes on 

 the coast of Lancashire and Cheshire during a period of about 

 seven years I thought some account of them would be of further 

 interest as affording additional information to, and for com- 

 parison with, the observations made by Miss Wakefield* last 

 year on the dune fungi of the Gower Coast, South Wales. 



The dunes referred to border the Wirrall Coast in Cheshire 

 between the estuaries of the Dee and Mersey, and in Lancashire 

 extend from the mouth of the Mersey, at Seaforth, to South- 

 port, continuing again on the north side of the Ribble estuary 

 from Lytham and St. Annes to Blackpool. 



The Wirrall dunes, once damp and supporting a paludal 

 vegetation in the hollows, either have been drained with the 

 encroachment of verdant golf courses and urban extensions, 



* Brit. Myc. Transactions, vi. (i), p. 33, igij- 



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