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MYCOLOGICAL NOTES FROM SCARBOROUGH. 
A..E. PECK. 
THE Mycological Committee of the Yorkshire Naturalists’ 
Union held its spring meeting from May 29th to June Ist, 
with headquarters at the Forge Valley Hotel, West Ayton. 
Permission to visit their respective estates had been kindly 
granted by Lord pecans Soe and Lord Downe. 
Messrs. Harold Wager, F.R.S. (Chairman), Alfred Clarke; 
eb, oe, and A. 7 sbeck (Secretary), members of the Com- 
mittee, and Mr. R. Fowler Jones, made some excellent records, 
although investigations were limited to Yedmandale, Forge 
Valley, and a part of Rainclffe Woods bordering on Lady 
Edith’s Drive. 
The ground covered may be considered ‘ classical ’ from the 
Mycological standpoint, as it was here that Mr. George Massee 
worked for so many years, his many notable records being duly 
set out in the ‘ Yorkshire Fungus Flora.’ Here were met with 
many of the original specimens upon which new species were 
founded, and some of the figures illustrated in Dr. M. C. Cooke’s 
book were the result of Mr. Massee’s industry in this locality. 
The local records have been somewhat increased by Mr. T. B. 
Roe and the writer. 
In Forge Valley were found two specimens of the Morel 
(Morchella esculenta) and the writer gathered a dozen speci- 
mens at the same spot a fortnight earlier. He then had also 
observed Mitrophora semilibera and M. gigas, two species 
closely related to the Morel. 
In all seventy-eight species and one variety were met 
with, the following being of chief interest and importance :— 
+ Thelebolus tervestyis (A. & S.) Tode. .*Gorgoniceps guernisact Sacc. var. 
t Pleurotus salugnus Pers. lebtospova Mass.= Vibrissea 
Pucctnia chrysosbleniu Grev. guernisact Crouan var. leptospora 
t+ Cordyceps capitata Fr. Mass. 
NXvlarvia covniformis Fr. Peziza veticulata Grev. 
Hypoxvion marginatum Berk. *Humaria pilifera Sacc. 
Ombrobhila clavus Cke. 
The following are of special note :— 
Gorgoniceps guernisact Sacc. var leptospora Mass. (= 
Vibrissea guernisact Crouan var. leptospora Mass.)—This, which 
is new to Yorkshire, Mr. Wager found in Forge Valley in a wet 
place on a fallen branch of a wild rose. It is a small dis- 
comycete with a yellowish disc and a dark olive exterior. On 
being held up in a window of the hotel in the sunlight, the 
elongated spores were seen to be waving about on the disc in 
a vibril manner, collectively appearing like strands of shining 
* New to Yorkshire. + New to Vice-County, N.E. 
Naturalist, 
