76 NOTES AND NEWS. 
MYXOGASTRES. 
Reticularia lycoperdon Rost. Pocklington. 
Lycogala epidendron Rost. Pocklington. 
Arcyria punicea Rost. Everingham. 
In addition to the above, between 80 and go _ species 
were exhibited which had been collected near Hebden Bridge 
y eedham and H. Pickles. These included Omphalia 
beloe Johnst.; Coprinus oblectus Fr.; Boletus alutarius Fr. 3 
Boletus porphysporus Fr. ; Strobilomyces gape ei Berk. ; and other 
uncommon fungi. : ie ilaceus Berk. Polyporus venient Fr. 
were taken from Northdean Wood, near t Halifax, one of Bolton’s 
hunting grounds. Besides these Mr. A. Clarke, of Huddersfield, also 
brought 5S. strobilaceus Berk. and Paxillus paradoxus Berk. from his 
district. A fine specimen of Polyporus sulphureus Fr. was sent by 
Mr. J. Carter, from Masham, and £-xobasidium vaccinit Woronin. 
from near Bingley, by Mr. E. P. Butterfield. 
NOTES AND NEWS. 
n the September issue of ‘ Folk-Lore’—a in age review of ei tradition, 
on 
institution, and custom, by its ar e the second part a paper 
g of the Lincolnshire Cars’ y Mrs Picts c. ‘speed i] wot a og on 
‘Manx Folk-Lore and Superstitions’ (by P ssor J. Rhys). The ber also 
hys). 
includes short notes eer a useful hibticgasi 7 recent folk-lore publications. 
atl 
the November and ce Ag numbers of the ‘Annals and Magazi 
-C.L., entitled ‘A Month on the Trondhjem Fiord,’ with ample introductory 
account of the e explorations a fully annotated list of the Mollusca and 
Molluscoidea collected, and tociekee “lists of the Cr ripe dee etc. Of these papers, 
by the kindness of the aut thor, reprints lie before us as we write. 
i es 
Under the title of ‘Random Recollections “33 ——- Fen, and Hill’ 
Swan, Sonnenschien & Co., London), Mr. W. Tutt, FES., has just 
For instance, in the excursion to Wicken ron tohipter 1.), the ne of 
ae eee . . ith 
aaugrage? ; , < Fi Far? 
Black,’ the absorbing subject of ‘Melanism in Lepidoptera” is pleasa Sadly 
explained according to the author’s views. The heading of the following 5 
‘Emigration and Immigration,’ gives the clue to the su nen 
follows ‘The Love-making of the Ghost,’ the ‘ ghost’ in the nae being noth 
ng. 2 
more than the well-known moth of that name ; and so on. It is a long time since 
we read a book of its kind with more pleasure. —G. T. P.. 
“Naturalist, 
