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trated the mixed nature of the road and ditch side vegetation. 
Bromus mollis glabratus was also just outside the station. 
The above does not attempt to be an exhaustive list of all 
the notes made. 
Funci1.—Mr. C. Crossland writes :—The mycologists had a’ 
pleasant and profitable time, especially in the birch, ling, and 
conifer portion of the strip of woodland bordering the Waste. 
There were a good scattering of agarics. Amanzta rubescens 
—‘the blusher’—was very abundant. A nice little cluster of 
Inocybe scabella was found among short grass. Mycena san- 
gutnolenta was very common among dead ling, and on some 
rotting birch logs. A noticable feature was the quantity of 
Marasmius androsaceus on damp decaying portions of prostrate 
ling. A bright, golden yellow “/ammula was also common on 
the ground among ling, and on rotting birch stumps ; this form 
appears to have a preference for heathy ground: we find it on 
the moor edges about Halifax under similar conditions. Per- 
haps the best find was made by one of the entomologists while 
beating an Epzlobium hirsutum bush, on the railway side near 
Medge Hall station ; this is a coral pink peziza which occurred 
in scores on the bare soil; it studded the ground for some yards 
near the Apzlobium ; it appears to be nearest to Pesiza Ade, 
but is not that species so far as one can judge at present. 
Echinella setulosa Mass. & Crossl. was especially looked for on 
decaying branches of ling, and found in abundance ; this little 
discomycete was formerly confused with Mol/zsza cinerea, which, 
under a pocket lens, it much resembles; the characters of the 
spores, however, are very different ; its appearance here and at 
other places, since it was properly diagnosed,* substantiates the 
remark made in the Yorks. Fung. Flo. that it would be ‘certain 
to be found in additional localities if looked for.’ There were 
few fungal leaf parasites. 
Two species are new to Yorkshire; these are marked with 
an asterisk. 
All the following species were found on or near Thorne 
Waste :— 
GASTROMYCETES. Scleroderma verrucosum, On the 
Crucibulum vulgare. On decaying ground in plantation. 
twigs. HyYMENOMYCETES. 
Lycoperdon pyriforme. On the 
ground among rotting twigs, 
etc. 
Agaricacez. 
Amanita rubescens. On the ground, 
margin of the wood. 
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* Mass. Brit. Fung. Flo. iv. p. 305. 
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Naturalist, 
