52 Crossland: Fungus Foray at Farnley Tyas. 
Yorkshire, while one—C. incarnata—is a new county record. 
One field, within a few hundred vards of head-quarters, pro- 
duced no fewer than six species, including tncarvnata. This latter 
is not a very conspicuous Clavavia among grass, being only 4-14 
inches high, and was found partly by accident. Several of the 
company, desirous of having the exhibits as perfect as possible, 
cut out circular sods along with the fungus, and placed them on 
the tables in a growing condition. It wason one of these, under 
the pileus of a tall Hygrophorus pratensis, that C. incarnata was 
spotted. We were unable to find more in the field where the 
sod came from. In another field were some remarkably fine 
tufts of C. fusiformis and C. coralloides, tufts of the latter being 
6-7 inches across. ‘ Fairy rings”? were scarce both in meadow 
and pasture, hence ring-dwellers, such as Marasmius oveades and 
one or two others, were conspicuous by their absence, which 1s 
quite unusual. The not common, Hygrophorus ovinus, was 
plentiful. Six of the twelve British Panaeoli were collected, 
while only one of the forty-three species of Lepiota was seen. 
At Maltby last year nine species were noted. There was almost 
a total absence of Armillaria mellea, although the district is fairly 
well wooded, and this species is usually one of the most common 
as a tree parasite. 
In the woods there was a good variety of the genus Aussula- 
Over one-third of the British species were seen, but only in small 
quantities, except the very commonest, as ochrolenca emetica and 
cyanoxantha. ER. rosacea was one of the prettiest funguses at the 
foray. 
A fine range of A manitopsis vaginatus both in size and shades of 
colour was brought in, a specimen of the var. fulva being remark- 
ably bright. Collybia maculata was the commonest woodland agaric. 
An extra effort made by a member of one of the local societies 
discovered the uncommon polypore, Strobilomyces strobilaceus, in 
Storthes Hall Wood. Mr. A. Denison, of the Milnsbridge 
Society, brought some remarkable dried specimens of a woody 
agaric, which he had collected about two years ago growing on 
the pine-board floor of a joiner’s shop at Milnsbridge. They 
proved to be Lentinus suffrutescens Fr., and are the first recorded 
British specimens. 
The spores of Mucor mucedo and the conidia of Botrytis 
vulgaris and Cladosporium herbarum had found a decaying banana 
skin by the road side in Storthes Hall lane, and were increasing 
a millionfold. | | 
A specimen of Hypholoma fasciculare was seen growing from 
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