Yorkshire Naturalists at Robin Ffood’s Bay. 253 
Func1.—Mr. C. Crossland reports that the two Mycologists 
—C. H. Broadhead and himself—had a good time, which would 
have been still better could they have lingered longer in 
Ramsdale Wood, a typical place for their purpose, on the 
Monday. They were, however, repaid in other ways; the 
route laid out by Mr. Barry, who personally guided the party 
on that day, proved to be full of interest from many points of 
view. Though we kept moving on from one point of interest 
to another, fungi were not altogether lost sight of. One desirable 
Discomycete—Pesiza sepiatra—was found growing on some 
petrified moss we went to look at under a great overhanging, 
dripping rock near the waterfall; and a spring “n‘oloma—E. 
clypeatum—on the ground in the wood corner. The very pretty, 
but not uncommon Omphalia umbellifera was met with on heathy 
ground in one of the glacial slacks visited. 
On the two other days the search for fungi was conducted 
more leisurely. As predicted in the circular, many spring 
species, which do not appear at any other time of the year, 
were found. Mr. Fortune and Mr. Booth, while in quest of 
other game, came across a splendid group of St. George’s 
mushrooms—77richoloma gambosum—in a field near the head- 
quarters ; these were growing in half a ring four or five yards in 
diameter : the formation of a complete ring was prevented by 
the field wall. They were the largest specimens the writer has 
had the pleasure of seeing, many being over 5 in. across the 
pileus, with plenty of substance about them, as will be seen by 
the accompanying photo. Being one of the very best of edible 
species, they were not left to perish in the field, but gathered 
by two or three members who knew their real worth and parcel’d 
up for home consumption. Pastures are their home, but Mr. 
Fortune saw a few in one of the woods. The uncommon Agaric 
—Bolbitius flavidus (Bolton)—was found on cow dung in pastures 
on the cliffs in two places. There were about a score of other 
fungi belonging to various groups of the larger kinds, which are 
of fairly common occurrence. 
Nearly two-thirds of the 74 species found belong to what are 
understood as micro species, although some which grow in 
colonies ate prominent enough to the naked eye. Ten or eleven 
days were spent in working these out. There is one species new 
to Yorkshire—TZriposporium elegans, a beautiful little brown 
mould with a ‘three-legged arrangement of its conidia, hence 
its generic name. There are five first records for this 
(N.E.) division of the county—&. flavidus, mentioned above ; 
1907 July. a 
