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food are wasted annually which, at the present, time especially, 

 would be of the greatest assistance in economising our food 

 supply. 



All the larger Fungi except mushrooms, are commonly 

 known as toadstools from some supposed association with 

 toads. Thus, Spencer, in the Shepheard's Calender (December) 

 says : — 



" Where I was wont to seeke the honey Bee, 



Working her formall rowmes in wexen frame, 



The grieslie Tode-stoole growne there mought I see, 



And loathed paddocks lording on the same : " 



In discussing the structure and life history of typical 

 toadstools, Dr. Wager referred to the enormous number of 

 spores produced. In an ordinary mushroom for example, 

 Buller has calculated that in a specimen with a pileus 8 cm. 

 in diameter, there are approximately 1,800,000,000 spores. In 

 a large specimen of the giant puftball, Buller estimated there 

 were produced about 7,000,000,000,000 spores, or as many as 

 would be liberated by about 4,000 good sized mushrooms. 



Among other topics dealt with in the lecture, were the 

 development of the fruit bod}^, reproduction, the distribution 

 of spores, spore colouration and classification. 



Altogether, 350 species were recorded, which included 39 

 Mycetozoa and 47 Lichens, the following being the more note- 

 worthy : — 



First British Records. 



Lepiota lilacea Bres. 

 Tricholoma unguentatum Fr. 

 Hygrophovits obscuratus Karst. 

 Nolanea vinacea Fr. 

 Entoloma dichroum Pers. 



Hebeloma diffractum Fr. 



Hypholoma irroratum Karst. 

 Udontia farinacea Pers. (Quel.). 

 Tomentella fitsca Pers. 



New to Yorkshire. 



Lepiota holosericea Fr. 

 Entoloma ardosiacum Bull. 

 Cortinarius (Phleg.) claricolor Fr. 



Cortinarius (Derm.) cotoneits Fr. 

 Polystictus gossypinus Lev. 



First Records for Mid-West Yorkshire. 



JLycoperdon schinatum Pers. 

 Armillaria vamentacea Bull. 

 Tricholoma onychinum Fr. 

 T. immundum Berk. 

 T. sulphur eum Bull. 

 T. albellum Fr. 

 Clitocybe ditopoda Fr. 

 Mycena rugosa Fr. 

 .1/. ammoniaca Fr. 

 M. haematopoda Fr. 

 Omphalia sphagnicola Berlc 

 Entoloma lividum Bull. 

 E. porphyropheum Fr. 



1917 April 1. 



Entoloma rhodopolium Fr. 



Leptonia solstitialis Fr. 



Pholiota aurea Pers. 



P. togularis Bull. 



P. aegerita Fr. 



P. adiposa Fr. 



P. flammans Fr. 



Inocybe Godeyi Gillet. 



/. sindonia Fr. 



Hebeloma glutinosum Lindg. 



H. sinapizans Fr. 



H. longicandum Pers. 



H. ischnostvlum Cke. 



