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NOTE on LYCOPODS. 

 Lycopodium annotinum in Cumberland. —All the stations for this 

 plant given in Hodgson's "Flora of Cumberland' are in Westmorland. It 

 may be well therefore to put on record that Mr. Geo. Stabler gathered it on 

 the Cumberland side of Rossett Gill in 1889. I have the plant from the 

 slopes of Bow Fell, in Westmorland. — Joseph A. Martindale, Staveley, 

 Kendal, 4th February 1902. 



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NOTES ON YORKSHIRE FUNGI. 

 Cadeby Fungi : a Correction. — In the account of the Fungus Foray 

 at Cadeby, etc. (' The Naturalist,' November 1901, p. 374), Erysiphe 

 fnurica Lev. should be ' Erysiphe oichoracedrunl DC.').— -C. Crossland, 

 Halifax, 14th January 1902. 



Puccinia malvacearum at Richmond.— In looking through some 

 old records of the Vale of Derwent Naturalists' Field Club I found a note 

 that during their field meeting at Richmond, on 8th June 1898, some of the 

 Mallows on the river bank near the town were found to be infested with 

 the fungus Puccinia, malvacearum or Hollyhock disease, as it is sometimes 

 called. As I do not think the record has been made in any Yorkshire paper, 

 perhaps it may not be out of place here. — J. W. Fawcett, Satley, Darling- 

 ton, 22nd November 1901. 



Coprophilous Fungi collected near Sheffield.— During November 

 and December last I made one or two gatherings of dung from fields near 

 this city. Such microscopic examination as I was able to make led me to_ 

 forward samples to Mr. Geo. Massee, F. L.S., for more detailed examination. 

 Mr. Massee has now sent me the following list of the species he has observed 

 up to the present time : — 

 On horse dung : — 



Coptinus radiatus Fr. Ascobolus bru uncus Cooke. 



Coprinus Gibbsii Mass.eV: Crossl. Ascobolus immersus Pers. 



Coprimes velox Godey. Ascophanus minutissimus Boud. 



Humaria salmonicolor Sacc. Rypa robins sexdecemsportis~Sa.cc. 



Hum aria granulaia Sacc. Isaria sulphnrea Fiedl. 



Lachnea crucipila Phil. Arthrobotrys superba Corda. 



On rabbit dung : — 



Coprinus niveus Fr. Ryparobius Leveilleanus Phil. 



St)umaloria longicollis Mass. & Salm. Ryparobius argenteus Berk. & Br. 



Ascobolus glaber Pers. Ryparobius dubius Boud. 



Ascobolus vinosus Berk. Thelebolus stercoreus Tode. 



Saccobolus neglectus Boud. Verticillium lateritium Berk. 



Ascophanus microsporia Phil. Splice ronemella fimicola March. 



Ascophanus equinus Mass., 

 Of the above one species, Coprinus Gibbsii, is new to science and is 

 described in Messrs. Massee and Crossland's recent article on • New York- 

 shire Agarics..' (' The Naturalist.' Jan. 1902, p. 1). Two species, Coprinus 

 velox and Arthrobotrys superba are additions to .the British Flora. Spuma- 

 toria longicollis and Thelebolus stercoreus are among- the many interesting 

 species added to the British Flora by Messrs. Massee and Salmon, and are 

 described and figured in their paper, ' Researches on Coprophilous Fungi.' 

 in the 'Annals of Botany,' Vol. 15, the former being- the type of a new 

 genus founded on specimens found in Epping Forest, and the latter being- 

 described from specimens collected at Kew and Reigate, Surrey. 



This interesting list of species, the result of the examination of a very 

 small amount of material collected almost haphazard in a few minutes, amply 

 bears out the remarks in Mr. Massee's paper read at the recent Fungus 

 Foray at Cadeby, and published in 'The Naturalist,' 1901, p. 333. as to the 

 results which may be expected from the thorough prosecution of this hitherto 

 neglected branch of Yorkshire Mycology. — Thomas Gibbs. Sheffield, 12th 

 February 1902. 



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