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FUNGUS FORAY AT MULGRAVE WOODS, WHITBY, 



15th TO 21st SEPTEMBER 1900. 



CHARLES CROSSLAND, F.L.S.. 



Halifax ; Hon. Sec. Yorkshire Mycological Committee. 



The ninth Annual Fungus Foray in connection with the Union 

 opened at Whitby on Saturday, 15th September, and continued 

 until the following' Friday. The first day was set apart by the 

 Union for general work in the neighbourhood of Sandsend, 

 Mulgrave Woods, and the adjoining coast line. The botanists 

 made their way to Mulgrave Woods, permission to investigate 

 which had been obtained from the Marquis of Normanby. Few 

 mycologists having been able to arrive in time for that day's 

 work, Mr. U. Bairstow, Halifax, and Mr. Thomas Hey, Derby, 

 undertook to pay special attention to fungi, and brought a most 

 interesting collection to the headquarters of the Mycological 

 Committee at Nineteenlands Farm, near Lythe. The other mem- 

 bers of the committee who put in an appearance were Messrs. G. 

 Massee, F.L.S., Royal Herbarium, Kew, President; A. Clarke, 

 Huddersfield ; Thos. Gibbs, Sheffield ; James Needham, Hebden 

 Bridge; and C. Crossland, F.L.S., Halifax, Convener. 



The headquarters proved to be most comfortable and con- 

 venient in every way, closely adjoining what is, perhaps, the 

 best portion of those grand old woods for fungi. This proximity 

 much facilitated the work, no great distances being to travel 

 either at the beginning or finish of each day's work, abundant 

 material of all kinds being* comparatively close at hand. It had 

 been thought that a visit to Arncliffe or Egton Woods on one of 

 fche days would be necessary to fill up the week, but so prolific did 

 Mulgrave prove, in park and woodland, that any idea of visiting 

 other places was abandoned early in the week. This change 

 could easily be effected, as no 4 hard and fast' arrangements, 

 which often cramp operations, had been made. 



Different parts of the woods were visited each day, so that a 

 general knowledge of their fungal-flora might be obtained. 

 Day after day each part was found to contain something of 

 special interest not found in the others ; in all parts good bags 

 were readily secured. 



Amongst the Agarics of the Leucosporous section a few 

 genera were not at all well represented. Only three out of 

 about twenty British Amanita were met with. Tricholoma^ 

 comparatively, about the same. Collybia a little better. Clito- 

 cybc much worse, only six out of fifty-two. In some genera, 



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