FUNGUS FORAY AT SANDSEND. 
C. CROSSLAND, F.L.S. 
Halifax. 
THE twenty-third Fungus Foray held under the auspices of 
the Yorkshire Naturalists’ Union, opened at Sandsend, on 
September 17th, and was continued to the 22nd. Permission to 
investigate the extensive Mulgrave woodlands was again kindly 
eranted by the Marquis of Normanby. Eighteen members 
of the Union and a friend met at Normanby House, Sandsend, 
on the Saturday. One of the great advantages attending the 
investigation of these woods is that meeting and workrooms 
are close at hand, as well as a most suitable house for head- 
quarters. From Monday morning onward, the double-roomed 
well-lighted old schoolhouse was placed at our disposal by the 
Vicar of Lythe, the Rev. W. G. Harland. This afforded plenty 
of room to spread out the material collected on long tables, 
specially put up for our purpose, while a handy work-table 
was placed opposite each of the four windows. Part of each 
day was given to collecting, and part to identifying the finds. 
The woods are stocked with well-grown native timber trees 
and shrubs, while quantities of exotic shrubs grow luxuriantly 
in all parts. The paths are well kept, and easy to traverse 
throughout this wide woodland domain. It was a great 
pleasure and privilege to wander about in the woods for five 
days, picking up one fungus here, and another there, and to 
dip into path-side recesses or scan the banks for others as we 
went along. Often half an hour or more would be spent in a 
suitable spot within a couple of square yards, looking carefully 
for micro material, where ten or a dozen species, often more, 
might be found. 
Though collecting was general all round by each one, Mr. 
Cheesman paid special attention to the Mycetozoa, Mr. Philip 
to the Uredines, Mr. Needham and Mr. Malone to micro-species 
of all kinds, and so on. 
One of the finds of special interest was Mycea flavipes. It 
was here Mr. Massee found it for the first time in Britain about 
twenty-five years ago, and from which the figures of the pretty 
little group in Cooke’s Illustrations, Pl. 951 B, were made. 
It was recorded for Whitby at the time, and has not been seen 
elsewhere in Britain. In France it is not uncommon. The 
following six met with during the five days’ search are new to 
the British Flora :— 
Clitopilus angustus (Pers.). Very different in appearance 
from any of our other species of Clitopilus. Closely resembling 
in size and build Entoloma prunuloides from which it is dis- 
tinguished by the decurrent gills. The gills remain pallid 
for a long time, and finally only become slightly tinged pink. 
igtt Jan, 1. 
