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the kindly co-operation of the Rev. R. F. Anderton, Vicar of 

 Hubberholme, who was good enough to place the excellent 

 schoolroom at Buckden at the visitors' disposal for the evening 

 lectures. To him thanks also are due for providing the 

 lantern, for his personal and genial presence at these gatherings,, 

 for his kind words of welcome to the district spoken on behalf 

 of the inhabitants, and for general interest and cordial help 

 throughout the visit. 



Mr. Anderton also conducted a party over his ancient 

 Church of Hubberholme, pointing out its highly interesting 

 antiquities, after which Mrs. and Miss Anderton entertained 

 the party to afternoon tea at the Vicarage. Small wonder, 

 then, that responsive sentiments of acquiescence were manifest 

 when the Vicar made a touching plea for a second Mycological 

 Survey of this district. His ' Wull ye no come back again ? r 

 will long be remembered. 



Landowners who had thrown open their estates to investi- 

 gation were : — Miss E. A. Crompton-Stansfield, Mrs. Hird, 

 Mr. O. Lodge, Mr. J. E. Dinsdale and Mr. John Beresford. 



Collecting began on Saturday morning, and during the day 

 many baskets and boxes of interesting specimens were brought 

 to the workroom. It was soon apparent that the district was 

 going to prove well worthy of the visit of investigation now 

 accorded it, as species were early recorded which were now 

 seen for the first time by members present. 



Agarics were in preponderance, while Polypores were by 

 no means numerous. The district appears to be singularly 

 free from tree parasites. Polyporus squamosus, which has an 

 almost universal range, was never recorded, whilst P. betulinus 

 was only met with on either one or two birch trees. Fomes 

 annosus, extremely common about the base of conifers in 

 some localities, is here quite rare. On the other hand, Arm- 

 illaria mellea is of frequent occurrence, and many big and 

 luxuriant patches came under observation. 



Mr. Wallis, a new member of the Committee, had the good 

 fortune to pick up specimens ' New to Britain ' on this, his 

 first ' Foray.' He and the writer were passing along a wood- 

 land path when Mr. Wallis gathered some pretty agarics of 

 lilac colour which the writer at once recognized as new to him, 

 but had no difficulty in relegating to the genus Lepiota. The 

 specimens were tenderly dealt with until the workroom was 

 reached, when a very short reference to Massee's ' European 

 Agarics ' sufficed to establish the new find as Lepiota lilacea 

 Bresedola, an addition to the British flora. 



A subsequent new British record of more than common 

 interest was the pink-spored agaric Nolanea vinacea Ft., easily 

 distinguishable by the delicate yellow colour of the stem. 



Another ' pink-spored ' form, Entoloma ardosiacum, though 



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