oe Crossland: Mycological Meeting at Sandsend. 
some of the leading types. A general description of these 
minute borderland organisms, including their various structures, 
habitat, food, mode of life, formation of sporangia, etc., was 
given. In describing various forms of capillitia it was pointed 
out that in many genera this structure is profuse, as in Stemonitis, 
Comatricha, Trichia, Arcyria, etc. ; in Perichaena it is scanty ; 
while in Cribraria and Dictydium it is absent. The capillitium 
and spores are the principal factors in classification. In some 
genera the lime granules secreted by the plasmodium are 
deposited in swellings of the capillitium threads, in others as 
crystals on the outer surface of the sporangial wall. Mr. 
Cheesman remarked that a knowledge of the various forms of 
Capillitia was important to the student, and urged that this 
group offers charms to the naturalist unsurpassed by any other 
group of organisms. 
As the week wore on, the fact became more and more 
apparent that the crop of agarics was much below the average. 
One would think an abundant crop would follow the plentiful 
rainfall of last ‘summer,’ but that does not always follow. 
The weather throughout has been too cold to induce the 
development of this class of plant. What the mycelium or 
spawn requires, as every mushroom grower knows, is heat 
as well as moisture. This season there has been an almost 
entire absence of the usual summer temperature. The ground 
has rarely seen the sun in the north here, consequently has 
never been really warmed. But whatever kind of meteoro- 
logical conditions prevail they are not suitable to all fungi alike. 
Tricholoma personatum, a good edible species commonly known 
as blewits, blue stalks, etc., was noticed growing in a ring 
at least ten yards diameter, on Sandsend Rigg. ‘ 
The erratic appearance of agarics, even in ordinary seasons, 
does not warrant comparisons, yet a few may be made between 
the number of certain genera previously recorded for this 
district, and the number noticed this time :— 
Previously Seen Previously Seen 
recorded. this time. recorded. this time. 
Amanita Be hcphey ee Cortinanus 40 .. 10 
Lepiota TOW (Eanes Flammula 7 I 
Tncholoma~§ 41»... II Hebeloma 9 2 
Pluteus 6 I Naucoria Z 2 
Entoloma TO ths 0 Ba Inocybe 24 6 
Leptonia SMELe Rene) 
What is perhaps the most peculiar in the latter case is that 
of the six gathered this season, two are new to Yorkshire, one 
of them being new to Britain—Jnocybe violaceifolia, see plate I, 
figs. 1-3. This was first found in the United States. The 
comparative sparseness in the appearance of agarics this 
season, as indicated in the above table, applies to several other 
Naturalist, 
