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FUNGUS FORAY 
AT CASTLE HOWARD AND MALTON. 
GEO, MASSEE, 
Editor of ‘Greviliea’; Author of § British Fungi, etc. ; Kew. 
Tuts year’s Fungus Foray of the Yorkshire Naturalists’ Union was 
held under the favourable combination of fine weather, abundance 
of fungi, and a good attendance of enthusiastic mycologists. 
It has been said that no person is a true student of nature who 
cannot sympathise with the work done by others in subjects outside 
his own special sphere of study ; and, presuming the members of the 
Y.N.U. are not lacking in this essential, it must be a source of 
satisfaction to all to find that a hitherto somewhat neglected study is 
being vigorously and persistently carried on in a systematic manner, 
with the result that the Mycologic Flora of Yorkshire is already as 
rich numerically, and also in the great variety of interesting and rare 
Species, as any other equal area in Great Britain ; and when it is 
county has been investigated, it may safely be inferred that important 
additions will yet be made, not only by the discovery of species at 
present met with in other parts of Britain, but also by additions to 
the Flora of the country. As a matter of fact, even since the foray 
of which I now write a very interesting discovery of this kind has 
fallen to the lot of Mr. C. Crossland, of Halifax, who has also, to 
my mind, been yet more fortunate in collecting a very beautiful 
Species established by Bolton, the pioneer of Yorkshire mycology, 
and which, not having previously been met with since Bolton’s time, 
was by some considered as a doubtful species. However, on these 
Matters Mr. Crossland must be left to tell his own tale, these facts 
being mentioned to show Yorkshire mycologists that there is yet 
work to be done, and also to demonstrate to the members of the 
Union generally that the work done by their mycological members 
fully justifies the facilities afforded by the Union. 
The days fixed for the foray proper were Wednesday and 
Thursday, the 14th and rsth of Sept., but Dr. M. C. Cooke, A.1S., 
and the writer of this arrived at Malton on the Monday evening 
Previous, for the purpose of having a preliminary ramble on the 
Tuesday, on which day, in company with three or four members 
from the West Riding, the woods in the neighbourhood of Castle 
Howard Station were worked. Among the interesting finds made 
here may be mentioned the Earth-Star (Geaster hygrometricus). In 
the evening the specimens found were named, and arranged in the 
Corn Exchange at Malton. 
Dec, 1892, 
