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FUNGI NEW TO WEST YORKSHIRE. 



CHARLES CROSSLAND, 

 Halifax. 



The following is a list of Fungi gathered this season in the Halifax 

 district, not recorded in F. A. Lees' ' Flora of West Yorkshire/ 

 and therefore new to the AVest Riding : — 



Agaricus (Tricholoma) portentosus Fr. fathered on the 



rough ground between the foot of Horshold Scout and the canal 



near Hebden Bridge, on October 13th, by Mr. Jas. AVhitehead, 



Halifax, while out on a fungus foray with Mr. J. W. Sutclifife 



and the writer. 

 Agaricus (Tricholoma) humilis Fr. Gathered near Stern Mill, 



Skircoat, Nov. 8th, by Mr. Thos. Aspin, Halifax. 

 Agaricus (Flammula) hybridus Fr. Found at Ovenden on 



the 5th November by Mr. G. L. Lister, of Brighouse. 

 Lactarius squalidus Fr. On the ground in a plantation close to 



Watkinson Hall, Ovenden near Halifax, on the 20th October; 



Mr. G. L. Lister. 

 Lentinus lepideus Fr. var. contiguus. Ovenden, Nov. 5th ; 



Mr. Lister. 

 Phlebia contorta Fr. Shibden, Nov. 3rd ; Mr. Lister. 

 Clavaria grisea Pers. On dead oak leaves, Winterwell, Crims- 



worth, October 26th; James Needham, Woodend, Hebden 



Bridge. 

 The plants were brought to me shortly after being collected, and 

 forwarded to the Royal Herbarium, Kew, where they were examined 

 and certified by Mr. Massee. 



NO TE—MA MAI A LI A . 



Squirrel feeding on Fungi. — I am surprised that the fact of the Common 

 Squirrel feeding on fungi should be considered at all a new discovery. Mr. Tom 

 Duckworth, of Carlisle, brought it to my notice as an undoubted fact some seven 

 years ago : and I was then under the impression that the fact had been recorded 

 before. To us, at any rate, it is in no way novel, but a taste that has long been 

 known. — H. A. Macphersox, Carlisle, Oct. 8th, 1S90. 



JVOT£— BOTANY. 



Lycopodium alpinum in West Cumberland : a Correction. — The Rev. 

 H. E. Fox, of Durham, kindly points out an error in my list of West Cumberland 

 Plants, which appeared in the November ' Naturalist.' Lycopodium annotiiiiiiii, 

 which I have recorded for Lingmell, turns out to be L. alpimtni, the former 

 species, as Mr. Fox says, only occurring in one locality in the Lake District, 

 viz., the Langdale slopes of Bowfell. — Percy H. Grimshaw', Burley-in- 



Wharfedale, Nov. 3rd, 1890. 



Naturalist^ 



