i8o Grassland : Recently Discovered Fungi in Yorkshire. 



p. 238. p. 2, f. i) ; Mollisia retincola (' Karst Myc. Fenn. I.'^ 

 p. 209). 



S.E. — Mere side, Hornsea. On dead stems of Phragmites 

 communis (*' Nat.', Aug. '08, pp. 309-10). 



Description taken from the Hornsea specimens : — 



Ascophores gregarious or scattered, seated on a dark brown 

 suhiculum, attached to the matrix hy a central point, closed and 

 suhglohose at first, then expanded till plane or only slightly convex,, 

 with raised margin, disc pale yellow or whitish, 1.5 — -3 mm. 

 across, margin lohed in well-grown specimens, exterior dark 

 grey -brown, margin pale ; excipulum of radially densely inter- 

 mingled, hyaline, hyphcs 2 — 2.5 /* thick, cortical cells brown, 

 globose, 11-14 /x diam, running out to elongated, hyaline, parallel 

 cells at the margin ; Asci narrowly clavate, apex narrowed to 

 an obtuse point, 100-120x7 ju. (broadest part) ; Spores 8, hyaline,, 

 sub-biseriate , straight or curved {mostly curved), linear fusiform,, 

 ends rounded, 20-23 X 3 Z^- irregularly guttulate, oftenest with 

 3-4 globules at each end, centre indistinctly minutely granular, 

 no trace of septa ; paraphyses sublinear, slightly ividening up- 

 wards, 3-4 /x, thick, contents granular in some, homogeneous and 

 glistening in others, difficult to separate from the asci. 



HyphcB of subiculum dark brown, flexuous, 4.5-5 /x thick. 



NEW TO YORKSHIRE. 



Geaster mammosus Chev. 



N.W. — A fine collection of this ' earth star ' was found under 

 a hedge, pasture side, near the village of Witton, Wensleydale, 

 March 1908, by W. A. Thwaites, Masham. [To follow No. 12].. 



Lepiota glioderma Gill. 



N.E. — Mulgrave Woods. On the ground among grass. 

 (F.F., '08, ' Nat.', Jan. '09, p. 24). [To precede No. 80]. 



Tricholoma squarrulosum Bres. 



N.E.— Mulgrave Woods. On the ground. (F.F., '08, 'Nat.% 

 Jan. '09, p. 24). [To follow No. 107]. 



T. cerinum Quel. 



N.E. — Mulgrave Woods, (F.F., '08,' Nat.', Jan. '09, p. 24). 

 [To follow No. 115]. 



Clitocybe comitalis Gill. 



N.E. — -Mulgrave Woods. (F.F., '08, ' Nat.', Jan. '09, p.. 

 24). [To follow No. 139]. 



Naturalist,^ 



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