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ADDITIONS TO 
THE WEST RIDING FUNGUS FLORA. 
CHARLES CROSSLAND, 
» Halifax. 
Now that an annual fungus foray has become an established institu- 
tion in Yorkshire there is some likelihood of this sadly neglected, 
though very interesting and important, branch of botany having the 
attention given to it in this county which it has so long needed. 
What is wanted is a few earnest working mycologists in each of the 
three Ridings ; probably the forays may ‘in time be the means of 
producing such—let us hope so. It being near upon eighteen 
months since any fungi new to West Yorkshire were recorded in 
* The Naturalist,’ it is deemed advisable to bring the records, so far 
as we are able, up to date. The following is about the ninth list for 
the West Riding since the appearance of Lees’ West Lopeah Flora 5 
it affords some indication of the work th 
out the county. It will be seen by the initials N. and P. that Messrs. 
J. Needham and H. Pickles, of Hebden Bridge, two excellent field- 
botanists, have collected the greater proportion. These have been 
forwarded to the writer, who has also to acknowledge the valuable 
assistance, in many ways and on numerous occasions, of Mr. H. T. 
Soppitt, of Bradford. Critical species have been forwarded to 
Mr. Massee, of the Royal Herbarium, Kew, who has very kindly 
given us the benefit of his vast experience by identifying such as 
_ have been submitted to him. Those marked with one asterisk are 
new to the British Flora, while those marked with two are new 
species. The records for Coprinus oblectus Fr. and Strobylomyces 
strobilaceus Berk. are simply additional stations which it was thought 
neécessary to note, as the two species are so rare. 
AGARICINE#. 
Amanita nitida Fr. Crimsworth Dean, Wadsworth ; J. Needham 
and H. Pickles, 1893 
Tricholoma cuneifo stim Fr. var. cinereo-rimosus Batsch. 
Crimsworth Dean, Wadsworth ; J. Needham and H. Pickles, 
1893. 
Tricholoma sordidum Fr. Dunghill, railway station, Hebden 
Bridge ; H. T. Soppitt, 1893. 
June 1894. 
