Crossland: Fungus Foray at Farnley Tyas. 51 
The foray opened by a short run out to Storthes Hall Wood 
on the Saturday afternoon. Evidence was not lacking that there 
must be no expectations of overflowing baskets at the end of 
each day’s excursion. The gamekeepers had noticed the dearth 
of fungiin the woods. The delightful weather of the previous 
six or eight weeks had not been conducive to prolific fungus 
growths. However, observation having taught us that, weather 
which retards the majority of species may be favourable to a 
few, there was no despondency. The elements were favour- 
able for collecting such as could be found, and it has often been 
noticed that when prospects are not specially good things 
altogether out of the ordinary line, worth perhaps a wagon load 
of old acquaintances, have been almost certain to crop up. It 
was so this time. There were one or two other compensations : 
the woods were near and easy to work. 
In a delightful place in Mollicar Wood one party enjoyed 
themselves for a short while sitting on a log, as they could find 
no fungi by walking about. This proved to be the best way of 
searching at that particular place. Presently, after a little fun 
had partially subsided, one said, ‘‘ 1 see something over there; ”’ 
another, ‘‘ And I see something over there.’ ‘This caused a spurt in 
various directions, which led to the finding of one of the rarest 
hings collected during the foray—Boletus parasiticus in fine 
form attacking Scleroderma vulgare. This Boletus has only two 
previous Yorkshire records—Scarborough and Hebden Bridge— 
the latter too late to be included in the Yorks. Fungus Flora. 
The Hebden Bridge specimens were also on S. vulgare. 
Varying fortune was experienced during the week’s investiga- 
tions both in woods and pastures. While some pastures were 
rather barren, others yielded fairly abundantly. One in particular 
was remarkably good. This was an old pasture on the bank 
of the stream, about an acre and a half in extent, and partly 
surrounded by woodland. Here a party of five or six in a 
twenty minutes’ search gathered thirty-eight species on the cattle 
dung and among the grass. Certainly, they were mostly species 
of common occurrence, yet there were three or four which have 
only a couple of previous Yorkshire records. 
The pastures were all in good ‘“ heart,’ and showed no 
signs of suffering from lack of moisture: they were almost 
spring green. Pasture species, comparatively speaking, were 
more in evidence than denizens of the woodlands. At no pre- 
vious foray have thirteen species of Clavaria been found, which 
number is nearly half those hitherto recorded for the whole of 
1907, February r. 
