248 Transactions British Mycological Society. 



MYCETOZOA FOUND DURING THE BASLOW 



FORAY. 



By Gulielma Lister, F.L.S. 



The visit of the British Mycological Society to Baslow had 

 been arranged to take place from Monday, Sept. 22nd, to the 

 following Saturday. Several of our party however arrived a 

 few days earlier than the appointed time; and, owing to the 

 railway strike, many were unable to leave at the end of the 

 week; thus by the enforced extension of their visit a fuller 

 opportunity was afforded for exploring the woods than had been 

 anticipated. The weather for the previous weeks had been 

 drier than the hunters for Mycetozoa could have wished, but 

 on the whole a fair harvest of species was obtained. 



On September 19th W. N. Cheesman searched some woods 

 between Grindleford and Baslow, and found six species, in- 

 cluding a good development of Trichia verrucosa. This species 

 although it had been recorded from seven English counties, as 

 well as from Wales and Scotland, is by no means common in the 

 British Isles, and is a new record for Derbyshire. Mr Cheesman 

 also obtained a fine gathering of Cribraria rufa. 



On September 23rd the woods near Baslow were searched. 

 These consisted of oak, ash, sycamore, poplar and beech, with 

 some larch and Scots fir. Nineteen species were obtained. On 

 fallen pine boughs Didymium melanospermum was abundant, 

 and on the dead beech leaves amongst which the boughs were 

 l^dng were found Craterium minutum, Didymium nigripes and 

 Lamproderma scintillans. A large growth of Craterium leuco- 

 cephalum occurred on dead oak leaves, and several gatherings 

 of Tubifera ferruginosa were obtained in the rosy immature 

 stage on old stumps. 



On September 24th the party was conveyed by motor cars 

 to explore three woods in the neighbourhood of Grindleford. 

 In Highlow Wood the trees consisted of alder, birch, poplar, 

 sycamore, larch and a little Scots fir; the moist peaty ground 

 beneath was trenched with old draining ditches and rough with 

 tussocks of Aira caespitosa. Thirteen species of Mycetozoa were 

 found here, of which the most noteworthy were Enteridium 

 olivaceum, forming small aethalia on dead sticks, a compact 

 hemispherical aethalium of Reticularia Lycoperdon without any 



