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Cross land : Fungus Foray at Cadeby, 



Considering the long-continued dry weather, the number of 

 species collected was fairly satisfactory. The rains of the 

 previous few days came just in time to waken up many of the 

 smaller and more delicate kinds and give them a start : a heavy 

 shower on the Monday afternoon tended in the same direction. 

 The larger and more fleshy species could not respond so readily 

 as the little ones. There was not a single Amanita found,, not 

 even A. rubescens ; and only a solitary Boletus (B. viscidus L. ) 

 Armillaria mellea and Pholiota mutabilis are not so dependent 

 on moist weather if the former can insinuate itself into the 

 cambium layer of a living tree, and the latter lodge itself in 

 a stout old stump. Of both these there were plenty in Pot- 

 ridings Wood, Armillaria mellea in an almost endless variety of 

 forms. 



The woods visited varied much in shade and moisture. 

 Warmsworth was a failure. A naturally moist hollow in Pot- 

 ridings Wood, between the railway and Sprotborough Bridge, 

 proved very prolific ground. The living trees were mostly Hazel 

 and Elder, and made good shade. Several scattered heaps of 

 dead boughs and branches, the remains of removed timber trees, 

 were lying about ; these were rich in fungi of many kinds. 

 The beautiful Poria sanguinolenta literally covered one piece to 

 the extent of 5 or 6 feet ; one feature of interest connected with 

 this cream w r hite polypore is that it immediately becomes blood 

 red in places where it is in the least bruised, or even touched. 

 Thirteen of the sixteen Mycence met with were found here, 

 M. hcematopoda, M. galopoda, and M. jilopes in quantity. 

 M. Berkeleyi Mass. ( = M. excisa Berk.) was here, but this fine 

 well marked species, noted for the greatly extended sinus in the 

 gills, was represented by only a couple of sporophores. Here 

 also was the strong-smelling, white Lepiota (L. BucknalliB.Sz Br.), 

 which is anything but common ; L. cristata in plenty ; L. Friesii 

 and Chlorospora Eyrei Mass. Mr. Massee writes: — 



In point of rarity, and more especially from the geographical 

 standpoint, perhaps the most interesting discovery made was 

 that of Chlorospora. Eyrei Mass. (= Schulzeria Eyrei Mass.), as 

 being the only European representative of the section Chloro- 

 spora of the Agaricineae, characterised by having distinctly green 

 gills and spores. The headquarters of the Chlorosporse is in 

 the New World, where the species range from Brazil to -the 

 United States. Chlorophyllum esculentum Mass., an esculent 

 fungus, having pea-green gills and spores, and a pileus 6-8 

 inches across, is not uncommon in British Guiana. 



Naturalist, 



