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taken are published, the cliffs are here being- denuded at a rapid 

 rate. But I could find no signs whatever of any immediate 

 danger of the sea breaking through and altering- the channel of 

 the Humber ! In one or two places where the cliffs are unusually 

 low — generally on the sites of ancient meres — the higher ground 

 on each side has been connected by an embankment. Towards 

 Spurn Point ample protection is afforded by very good groynes, 

 which stay the progress of the southwardly travelling shingle, 

 and thus protect the land from the force of the waves. 



NOTES on FUNGI. 



Fungi in Yorkshire and Derbyshire.— The following finds, made at 

 various times and in widely different localities, deserve notice : — 



Geopyxis coccinea Mass. — Mr. H. Staniforth exhibited some fine specimens 

 of this most beautiful Discomycete at the annual conversazione of the 

 Sheffield Naturalists' Club, held on 22nd February last. They were gathered 

 in a wood near Kiveton Park, Yorkshire, and are locally called ' Morell 

 Cups.' They will keep fresh for a considerable time in damp moss, the 

 specimens exhibited having- originally been gathered before the 25th 

 January, the date originally fixed for the function, which, like many others, 

 was postponed on account of the recent melancholy national event. Mr. 

 Staniforth made a similar exhibit at last year's conversazione. 



Boletus parasiticus Bull. — I found this species in August 1899 in Brierley 

 Wood, near Sheepbridge, Derbyshire. It was growing upon its usual host, 

 Scleroderma vidgare Fr. 



Cantharellus lobatus Fr. — I have a specimen of this curious little species 

 found at Carlton-in-Cleveland at the Yorkshire Naturalists' Union meeting 

 in August 1899. It was growing upon Hypnum. I believe Mr. W. West, 

 F.L.S., was the finder. — Thos. Gibbs, 43, St. Ronan's Road, Sheffield, 5th 

 March 1901. 



Fungi near Wirksworth, Derbyshire. In the following note I put 

 on record the mycological results of an hour's ramble through a plantation 

 close to Wirksworth, Derbyshire, late in October last year. Larch and 

 Scotch Fir are the chief components of the plantation in question, and the 

 soil consists almost entirely of fir needles and other leaf mould. Among 

 this, saturated as it was with the morning dew, the smaller Mycenas 

 luxuriated, the milky-juiced M. galopoda Schrad. being especially abundant. 

 Collybia butyracea Bull, and Clitocybe brumalis Fr. both swarmed and 

 showed a tendency to grow in rings, which I have not seen noticed in 

 connection with these two species. Upon stumps Hyplwloma capnoides Fr. 

 was as abundant as its congener the bitter tasting H. fascicularis Huds. 

 Three of the smaller Lepiotas occurred, L. am ianthina Scop, in abundance 

 throughout the wood, while the grass rides produced more sparingly 

 L. carcharias Pers. and a pretty white form of L. granulosa Batsch. These 

 grass rides also produced several specimens of Tricholoma imbricatum Fr. , 

 while the handsome T. rutilans Schasff. occurred in the denser parts of the 

 wood. Cantharellus aurantiacus Fr. also occvirred in the wood, while 

 among the grass on its outskirts and in the adjoining fields were Amanitopsis 

 vaginata Roze. Hygrophorus hypothejus Fr., H. l&tus Fr. , and the beautiful 

 Russtda drimeia Cke. My attention was practically confined to the 

 Agaricini, but I found a specimen of Cordyceps militaris Fr. growing from 

 a Lepidopterous pupa. — Thos. Gibbs, 43, St. Ronan's Road, Sheffield, 5th 

 March 1901. 



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