2o8 YORKSHIRE NATURALISTS' UNION. 



Messrs. Phillips and Massee headed the Harrogate party, 

 and Mr. Thomas Hick, B. A., B.Sc, acted as leader, the party also 

 including Messrs. Abbott, Soppitt, and Lister. The route taken 

 was towards Beckwithshaw, the woods on both sides of the road 

 being worked. Ladariiis uvidus was found in fair quantity, as 

 well as the more common L. glyciosmiis. The odour of the latter 

 was a subject of debate, as to what it could be compared, cocoa- 

 nut being suggested by Mr. Hick. Nothing is more difficult 

 than to define, accurately and tersely, the odours of many of the 

 larger fungi ; and to cite an example, Berkeley and Broome say 

 that their Agarims ameides has "a peculiar smell, resembling a 

 mixture of orange-flower water and starch." So that it was not 

 considered a far-fetched idea to liken that of L. glyciosmiis to a 

 mixture of cocoa-nut and treacle, with a suggestion of cinnamon. 

 During the day, at Beckwithshaw, the beautiful Agaricus roselhis 

 was found, also Hypomyces rosellus, a quantity of the edible 

 Helvella crispa^ and, close to Harrogate, Peziza auraniia, as well 

 as sixty more species of more or less interest. 



The Ripon party was headed by Mr. Plowright and Mr. 

 Vize, and guided by the Rev. H. H. Slater, B.A., F.Z.S., through 

 the woods and grounds of Studley Royal. The numerous 

 interesting species found included Agaricus (Tricholo)na) 

 panceolus, a species which was found for the first time in Britain, 

 in 1875, at Street, in Somerset, next a few weeks ago, in Norfolk, 

 and now in Yorkshire. The Rev. Mr. Summerfield soon lighted 

 upon a magnificent specimen of another species, A. ( Lepiota) 

 bucknalii, which had only previously been found by Mr. Bucknall 

 at Clifton, and shortly afterwards upon A. pisciodorus and Geasier 

 fimbriatus, while Mr. Alfred Denny found Agaricus dryinms upon 

 an oak tree. Hygrophorus puniceus, H. fornicatus, H. cossus, 

 H. unguifwsus, Agaricus seminudus, Marasmius eryfhropus, 

 Polyporus giganteus, and P. ccBsius, as well as about 120 other 

 species were also collected. 



On Saturday a ' show ' was held, for which numerous con- 

 signments of fungi had been sent in from all parts of York- 

 shire, and in the evening a fungus dinner, at which several 

 species were cooked with great success. It is upon the 

 materials accumulated in this manner that the list of fungi 

 which follows has been based. 



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