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THE MINEHEAD FORAY. 
September 27th to October 2nd, 1920. 
The twenty-fourth annual meeting and autumn foray took 
place at Minehead, Somersetshire from September 27th to 
October 2nd, 1920. As usual most of the members assembled 
on the Monday and dispersed on the Saturday leaving four 
clear days for the business of the meeting proper. 
A council meeting was held on Monday evening. Amongst 
other matters it was decided that a day’s foray should be 
arranged for students of London colleges preceded by a semi- 
popular lecture*; and further, to attempt in some way to clear 
up the confusion in mycology, due to the many descriptions of 
new genera which have appeared since the publication of the 
last volume of Saccardo’s Sylloge Fungorum, by reprinting the 
original diagnoses and to keep up to date by annual lists. 
The first excursion was a whole day one to Horner Woods. 
All of the woods visited are of the same type namely typical 
Quercus sesstliflora woods on Devonian sandstone and marl. The 
journeys on the first three days were made by motor charabanc. 
The detailed knowledge of the district possessed by Mr Norman 
G. Hadden enabled him to suggest the splitting of the party 
where desirable either from the point of view of individual 
collecting or of personal comfort. At the starting point Coprinus 
flocculosus was discovered inside an old elm. Lasiobolus macro- 
trichus and Ascophanus cervarius were found in quantity, both 
on red deer dung: Horner Woods is the type locality for the 
former; the colour of the latter is whitish or pallid when fresh 
and does not become the “chestnut brown”’ colour of the 
original description until it is oldt. Other interesting fungi were 
Chlorosplenium versiforme, Podosphaera myrtillina, Thecopsora 
Vacciniorum, Hygrophorus subradiatus var. lacmus, Coprinus 
picaceus, Clavaria luteoalba, Cyphella alboviolascens and Merulius 
tremellosus. The president was successful in finding Myriangium 
Duriaet on Chionaspis salicis on Ash. 
In the evening the general meeting was held. Mr Carleton Rea 
was elected President for 1921, Miss G. Lister and Mr T. Petch, 
Vice-Presidents, Mr J. Ramsbottom, General Secretary and 
Miss D. Cayley and Mr F. T. Brooks as members of the Council 
—the other officers being re-elected. 
* The lecture was given on October 22, 1920 at University College, London 
(at the invitation of Prof. F. W. Oliver) by Mr Somerville Hastings who showed 
slides of and described the larger fungi likely to be found the following day 
on the foray at Oxshott. 
t See p. 59. 
M.S, I 
