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HASLEMERE, SPRING FORAY. 
May 13th-16th, 192i. 
The spring foray was held at Haslemere, Surrey, during the 
Whitsuntide Holidays, at the invitation of the Haslemere 
Natural History Society. About thirty members assembled at 
the Educational Museum on Friday evening and were received 
by Mr and Mrs E. W. Swanton and members of the Haslemere 
Natural History Society. On Saturday morning a start was 
made from the Museum at Io o'clock by motor for Verdly 
woods, Sussex. As was to be expected in consequence of the 
previous drought very few of the larger fungi were to be found 
and it cannot be said that the microforms were very abundant. 
The stroll through the beech woods was enlivened by the visible 
emission of spores from fruit bodies of Ganoderma applanatum. 
These were on a fallen log on a steep slope and as the ascent 
was made with the sporophores between the sun and the 
climbers the spore discharge was remarkably clear. 
Sunday morning was left open, but many of the party climbed 
Blackdown with little or no mycological results. In the after- 
noon the members left the Museum at 2.36 and visited Valewood 
Park and woods. A number of species were added of which 
Puccinia Epilobit was perhaps the most interesting. The party 
was entertained to tea by Mrs Daffarn. 
On Monday, after the members had been photographed, a 
start was made for Blackdown Park. Fungi again were scarce 
and the day seemed blank for interesting finds, but as the 
grounds of the house were approached to have tea at the invi- 
tation of Lady Philipson-Stow a number of polypores were 
noticed on the boles of Abies pectinata. Some of these were 
afterwards secured and proved to be Fomes robustus*, a fungus 
not previously recorded for this country. 
The evenings were spent at the Museum examining the 
specimens gathered and taking advantage of the mycological 
exhibits arranged by Mr Swanton to whom the Foray owed its 
success. 
A vote of thanks was awarded to Major the Hon. Harold 
Pearson for permission to visit Verdly woods and to Mrs Daffarn 
and Lady Philipson-Stow for their permits and hospitality. 
In preparing the following list of species the writer is in- 
debted to the various members of the party for records of their 
finds, particularly to Mr A. A. Pearson and Mr E. W. Swanton. 
* For description see British Basidiomycetae by Carleton Rea, p. 593. 
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