350 The Natural History of Littondale, Yorks. 
The upper slopes of the Yoredales are peat covered, and 
dominated by heather moors broken into considerably in places 
by grassy and rushy tracts. Thechief species noted here were :— 
Calluna Erica. | Carex diorca. 
Vaccinium Myrtillus. | » ptlulifera. 
oF vitis-1ded. », pulicaris. 
Erica tetralix. Fyn ele ale 
Rumex acetosella. | Agrostis vulgaris. 
Juncus squarrosus. | Nardus stricta. 
» glaucus. Deschampsta cespitosa. 
Scirpus cespitosus. Molinia varia. 
The top of Old Cote Moor is a plateau capped with Mill- 
stone Grit and covered by peat 1 to 3 feet deep. The species met 
with here are in order of dominance :— 
Calluna Erica. Eriophorum angustifolium, 
Vaccinium Myrtillus. Juncus squarrosus. 
Rubus Chamemorus. | Nardus stricta. 
Empetrium nigrum. Festuca ovina. 
Eriophorum vaginatum. 
Funer.—Mr. C. Crossland writes:—The attention of the 
mycologists was given to the immediate neighbourhood of 
Arncliffe and up Littondale as far as Foxup. There were 
only two or three small woods, and these lacked the conditions 
—moisture and plenty of rotting branches—favourable to the 
growth of larger fungi. Very little variety in the larger agarics 
was seen. Having gone with the express purpose of finding 
something, we turned our investigations in other directions. 
Nettle beds by the way-side, meadow-sweet beds in moist 
corners, and cattle dung in pastures and about farms found us 
plenty to do, in addition to odd places here and there looked 
into. Decaying stems of last year’s nettles proved most 
prolific in micro-species, some of the stems having five or six 
different species, in as many inches, growing upon them. 
Among the meadow-sweet was found Belonidium deparculum ; 
which had been sought for by the writer on decaying Spirza for 
some years, and here it was in abundance; it is an aberrant 
Discomycete having only four spores in each ascus, and was 
particularly wanted for the purpose of checking a previous 
examination of the same species found at Hornsea Mere in 
1900. No less than one fourth of the 107 species found were 
coprophilous fungi, mostly common habitues of cow, horse, 
sheep, and rabbit dung. Coprinus Gubbsiz, a tiny but very 
‘distinct species first discovered by Mr. Gibbs near Sheffield in 
1903, being amongst them; they sprung up in quantity on a 
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