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FUNGUS FORAY AT SANDSEND. 
C. CROSSLAND, 
Halifax. 
THE Twenty-fourth Fungus Foray (the fourth fixed for this 
district) in connection with the Yorkshire Naturalists’ Union 
was held at Sandsend, September 23rd-28th. Permission was 
again granted by Lord Normanby to fred explore the woods, 
parks, and pastures of the ancient Mulgrave domain. Four- 
teen members and four friends attended. The use of the 
schoolrooms at Sandsend for meeting and workrooms was 
granted by the Vicar of Lythe, as heretofore. 
Collecting commenced on Saturday afternoon in the woods, 
but the pastures were reported to be almost free from fungi, 
probably owing to the fine, dry, sunny summer. However, 
the pronouncement so often made, that we should find more 
species than we had time to deal with, came out all right in the 
end, as usual. In the moist, shady places in the woods, material 
proved to be abundant, especially the smaller kinds, which 
are easily overlooked, and which require special search to bring 
them to light. Special efforts were put forth by all, in one 
direction or another. <A very good variety of the larger species 
was met with, but sparing in quantity. Seven Tricholomas 
were added to the thirty-three already recorded for Mulgrave ; 
five of the seven are additions to Yorkshire. Thirteen Corti- 
narii were added to a previous forty ; five being new to York- 
Share:.-. Three of the: genus: Hy. erophorus were added to a 
previous twenty-seven. Only one Collybia was added, but, 
what is more remarkable, it is a new British species. Among 
other additions are five to the genus Russula ; four to Coprinus ; 
three to Flammula; three to Inocybe; four to Polyporus ; 
and three to Clavaria; one of the latter being new to Science. 
Armillaria mellea, a timber-tree parasite, was at work. A 
colony of very fine Lactarius vellereus was noticed in a shorn 
bracken-bed on a bankside. One of the most interesting finds 
next to a new species, was Polyporus albidus, an all-white form, 
first found in this country at Grindleford, Derbyshire, by Mr. 
Thos. Hey and the writer, in 1909. Chotromyces meandriformis 
was again met with. Not a single Helvella was seen, though 
five species are known to occur. Stereum hirsutum, a very 
common saprophyte on dead fallen branches, was noticed 
growing luxuriantly as a parasite on a living branch of the 
cherry-laurel. The teleutospore stage of Phragmidinm sub- 
corticatum was very prevalent on the leaves of cultivated rose- 
bushes at Sandsend. A potato-patch in one of the cottage- 
gardens presented a sad spectacle. The tubers had been ‘ got,’ 
but the greater portion was rendered useless by parasitic 
fungi. The potato disease (Phylophthora infestans) was present, 
and also the ‘soft-rot’ (Nectria solant) which causes the 
tuber to decay in a soft rot having a very offensive smell. One 
agit Nov. 1: 
