100 Prof. Marshall Ward, Notes on some of the Rarer, etc. 



Inocybe hirsnta, Lasch.; I. fastigiata, Schaeff; Flammula sapinea, 

 Fr. ; F. scamba, Fr. ; Tubaria paludosa, Fr. ; Stropharia albo- 

 cyanea, Desm. ; Hypholoma capnoides, Fr. ; H. lachrymabundus, 

 Fr. ; Cortinarius varius, Fr. ; C. multiformis, Fr. ; Paxillus atro- 

 tomentosus, Fr. ; Hygrophorus agathosmus, Fr. ; Lactarius hysgi- 

 nus, Fr. ; L. glyciosmus, Fr. 



Boletus bovinus, L. ; B. impolitus, Fr. ; Polyporus Schweinitzii, 

 Fr. ; P. fragilis, Fr. ; P. amorphics, Fr. ; Trametes Pini, Fr. ; Meru- 

 lius pollens, Berk. 



Hydnum fragile, Fr.; H. aurantiacum, A. and S.; H. ferrugin- 

 eum, Fr.; H. scrubiculatum, Fr.; H. zonatum, Bafcsch. ; H. melaleu- 

 cum, Fr.; Sistotrema confiuens, Pers. ; Gorticium sanguineum, Fr. 



Clavaria amethystina, Bull; G stricta, Pers.; Rhizopogon 

 rubescens, Tul.; Helvella lacunosa, Afzel, and H. elastica, Bull; 

 Peziza violacea, Pers.; and the very pretty Myxomycete Tubidina 

 cylindrica, Bull. 



A more complete list of the fungi gathered on Speyside will 

 appear in the forthcoming volume of the Transactions of the 

 British Mycological Society. 



The following are among the more remarkable species collected 

 last autumn in the neighbourhood of Halifax, Yorks., where Mr 

 Crossland kindly took me over some ground well known to myco- 

 logists. 



Boletus porphyrosporus, Fr. ; Forties variegatus, Seer.; Hygro- 

 phorus Colemannianus, Blox. ; H. nitratus, Pers. ; Inocybe plumosa, 

 Bolt. ; i". asterospora, Quel. ; Russula ochracea, Fr. ; R. sanguinea, 

 Fr. ; and Cortinarius decolorans, Fr. 



Notes on Artificial Cultures of Xylaria. By Miss E. Dale 

 (communicated by Professor Marshall Ward). 



[Read 4 February 1901.] 



Two species, Xylaria polymorpha and X. Hypoxylon, have 

 been cultivated from the ascospores, which germinated in various 

 nutritive media. The fungus was then grown upon sterilized 

 wood — beech, oak, and silver fir, on which it formed a dense 

 flocculent mycelium, at first white and later grey and then still 

 darker. After 3 or 4 months cylindrical conidiophores arose, 

 whose length varied from about 1 to 3 cms. In X. polymorpha 

 each bore numerous conidia on its upper end. In X. Hypoxylon 

 the conidiophores have so far been sterile. In the artificial 

 cultures these stromata have not yet developed further. Those 



