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the district therefore is composed of metamorphie rocks in which 
gneiss predominates. Perhaps the most striking feature of all in 
these ancient forests is the hurry shown by all trees to reach the 
FRo e Transactions of the British Mycological Society for 
1909 (Worcester, 1910, 101 pp., 4 plates) we learn that that body 
held a spring foray in addition to the autumn one. A number of 
the members met at Shrewsbury on May 28th for a week’s 
Ascomycetes, a class of fungi rather plentiful in the season 
of the ye The Transactions include some papers of exceptional 
interest, in addition to the accounts of the two fora S16) 
at Baslow, was successful in finding and determining a number of 
Determination of Russule”—a section of fungi with which he is 
