vi OTE—FUNGI. 
A Mycological Ramble in Mid-November.—A number of members who 
excursion to Hayburn Wyke in July, that for some time ad been seized with 
a morbid desire to again visit that district ; hence this ‘excutsion, which was no 
moo n th mentioned at on 
ea Ss 
An ary 4 start was made and in fine weather, but siigiire was scarcely left 
ind before a sharp shower of hail and rain compelled the party to seek the 
ae of a hedge-bank ; but “this deterred them not from pr ie oe it 
continued to be dampish both en and below for the greater part of the d 
Scalby and Burniston were soon p and ged interesting pe anil were oted 
on the a, the lichens being particularly fine, the numerous roses, chrysan- 
themums, an ot sone flowers in cottag: pang tedicated a milder sa a than 
ours in me West Riding. Ascen seine t the > hill above Cloughton, a woodman’s hut 
near the roadside was taken advantage of t — ter from the driving rain. Delete 
Phrgmidvan violaceum Schl. was abundan on the leaves of the brambles, 
a species generally common, but singu wine absent- from the Bradford rag 
Halifax districts. | On the gr, assy ibadude eo gg bores ers. was som 
what common, its black ‘clubs’ forming conspicu the eesti y 
Then several specimens were picked up of Agaricus (Cito) File pores Sow., 
with : strong anise odour, and 7yremella regen on 
fallen logs. By this time a ays wood on t tty was Racha. ‘which proved 
a in cal Le oti Here fungi were in profsion wat variety, Reg if Root 
oned rare of a differe a character to what w accustom 
tion ta indi roun 
A. s Pets 
cyaneus Batsch, A. (Flammula) flavidus Scheff, A. (Hypho aloma) capno ides Fr., 
bi ortinarius (Dermat) Sp omeus Fr. lygroph orUus ape Tis Taisivias 
s Fr., sula expallens Gillet , Marasmius Setidus , Poiypris chioneus 
Fi, — a ye ae cen ie  Hidnan nyrncolenes L, mi ich w as growing on a 
ale Poa pecies were the follow Se Ber a 
2 {Eitase) bramati Fi * (Colihia) butyracss Bull., A. 
(Cin eduiges Cur ena) galopus Pers., A. (Mycena) Asie Sad 
cus) Ce roinus “Scheel G (Hyphoioma) sublateritis Scheeff. 
Moen: petal 2s Fr., Bull., and Z 
was extremely common on aia er branches of Scotch oe wo interesting 
moulds on decaying fungi were neg which on tien es EN posal asta 
a sao ode recent book on British Phycomycetes, &c.—to be Spinellus 
Jusiger Nan Tiegh., which was Hoditshing on Sane epipterygius and Sporodinia 
aspegilus Sehtotya species of great interest. It still continued to rain, and it 
ts isable to steer due N.W. to a house marked on the ordnance map 
been 
ee and steps were retraced at full speed, one of the calling at 
Ringing Keld Bog, which was found to be unworkable. The ges of the st story can 
y told—a prolonged halt before a comfortable fire at Cloughton, and a 
hour and a half’s trudge along the miry roads, the sun salced party duly arrived 
- lasek ie a the ramble will not soon be forgotten. Next day the writer 
panied essrs. Chapman and Cyossiand on a ramble along the north shore, 
ast i 
no 
nein ages olusatrum. It is evident that cmd of the ¢eleutospores 
of ie pac 5 (anti most Uredinez) will pode spe in autumn, a fact we noticed 
last y say circumstance has been observed in the case of P. tragopogi 
pg by te Kise hata (B British Uredinee and Ustilaginee, p. 199), and quite 
recently wi with ?: Pers., on A/entha pions, the deleutospores 
of which germinated Beaty when placed i in Writer. —H. T. Soppitt, Bradford, 
2oth Nov, 1891. "Naturalist, 
