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negative evidence, it may be remarked that not a single species 

 of Carex was seen either in the woods or in the ponds. 



Dr. W. G. Smith and Mr. T. W. Woodhead had been at 

 work in the Botanical Survey Section. Dr. Smith pointed out 

 that Wharncliffe Wood was probably one of the finest oak 

 woods in the country. 



Mr. Gibbs reports as follows : — The Mycological Committee 

 was represented by Messrs. C. Crossland (Secretary), A. 

 Clarke, C. H. Broadhead, and the writer. Wharncliffe Woods 

 are well known as an excellent collectingf-ground for the 

 larger fungi ; consequently, after the recent heavy rains, the 

 fungus-hunters were, looking forward to a productive day's work. 

 In this they were not disappointed. Open glades, damp shady 

 copses, and dead trunks, branches, and stumps were all searched, 

 and yielded their characteristic species. The grassy banks of 

 the road through the wood to the Lodge proved very productive 

 of Boleti, six species being noticed, these including Boletus 

 felleiis Bull., easily recognised by its flesh-coloured tubes, and 

 Boletus piperatus Bull., with rusty red tubes, neither species of 

 every-day occurrence. The damp leaf mould was rich in RussulcB 

 and Lactarii, the finds in the former genus including two pretty 

 and uncommon species, R. liitea Fr. and R. puellaris Fr. 

 The most interesting finds on dead wood were Polyporus adustus 

 Fr., a species somewhat resembling the common Polystictus 

 ■versicolor, but differing in its less woody substance and grey 

 colour, and Calocera striata Fr. , a Tremelline distinguished from 

 its congeners by the wrinkled or striate surface of its small, 

 lemon-yellow, club-shaped hymenophores. Discomycetes were 

 scarce, but included one small specimen of the pretty orange 

 Otidea aurantia (Pers.). The only Myxomycete of interest 

 noticed was a yellow plasmodium covering stems of grass and 

 heath Galium. This was found and brought to the writer by 

 Mr. Waterfall, and afterwards developed into masses of confluent 

 yellow-green sporangia, an aethalioid form of Physariim virescens 

 Ditm. The Mycologists were much indebted to some members 

 of other sections, who picked up and brought to the meeting 

 specimens of fungi noticed by them. More than one interesting 

 record was made in this manner, and this fact shows how, at 

 a general excursion such as this, the several sections may work 

 together and help one another. In addition to those mentioned 

 above, the following species were noticed. Species universally 

 common, and species recorded for the locality either in Lees' 

 Flora of West Yorkshire or in the recently published first part 



Naturalist, 



