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FUNGUS FORAY AT BARNSLEY: 
WITH LIST OF SPECIES FOUND. 
CHARLES CROSSLAND, 
Honorary Secretary, Yorkshire Mycological Committee. 
THE 134th Meeting of the Yorkshire Naturalists’ Union, held at 
Barnsley, on Saturday, September 18th, and Monday, September 
20th, 1897, was devoted solely to the investigation of the fungus 
flora of that district. There were present, Mr. G. Massee, F.R.MLS., 
F.1.S., Royal Herbarium, Kew; Rev. W. Fowler, M.A., Liversedge 
(on the Monday); Messrs. Thos. Birks, Rochdale; A. Clarke, 
Huddersfield ; J. Needham, Hebden Bridge; H. T. Soppitt, 
U. Bairstow, and C. Crossland, Halifax. Ample and very suitable 
accommodation in the shape of rooms for examining and exhibiting _ 
the fungi collected had been secured beforehand at the Harvey 
Institute. The committee were fortunate in having the assistance 
of several members of the Barnsley Society, who did their best, in 
every way, to make the meeting a success, one of their number, 
Mr. E. G. Bayford, acting as special secretary for this meeting. 
The foray was started on Saturday noon; the afternoon being 
devoted to the working of Hugsett Wood, under the guidance of 
Messrs. J. Tomlinson and H. Wade. The wood is of a mixed 
character, oak predominating; a very suitable wood taken altogether, 
ut in some places the quantity of grass and undergrowth rather 
told against the appearance of the larger species of fungi. Yet the 
Place proved especially rich in microscopic forms, almost every twig 
Picked up having some interesting form or another upon it ; for this 
branch of the study this wood alone would have supplied work to a 
Single student for a whole season. A peculiarly beautiful but abnor- 
mal form of one of the white resupinate Polypores was picked up by 
Mr. Birks. The fungus had formed itself into a series of little cones 
Varying from 3 to 1} inches high. The interior of the cones was 
fleshy, the exterior from bottom to top being an unbroken series of 
‘regular shaped, intricate, simple or compound pores with thin, white, 
uneven, torn, or tooth-edged dissepiments, which turned brown on 
drying. It was robably a form of Polyporus adiposus. It was 1n- 
tended to visit Cannon Hall Park, but time did not allow, and this 
«fl - ay 
flies found a treacle pot.’ Here Crucibulum vulgare, the bird’s-nest 
