THE NATURALIST 



FOR 1904. 



NEW FUNGI. 



CONTRIBUTED BY THE MYCOLOGICAL MEMBERS OF THE UNION-. 



After the success attending the Helmsley Foray it was thoug-ht 

 the time was ripe for the bringing- together for publication of a 

 miscellaneous batch of most interesting" species met with during 

 the last few years in various Yorkshire localities. 



It will be noted that the list comprises seventeen species not 

 before recorded for Britain, no less than nine of which are new 

 to science. 



There needs no particulars in this short introduction as to 

 fungus or finder, seeing that both are given in all cases under 

 each species. 



The paper is accompanied by a coloured plate, the drawings 

 for which were executed by the President of the section, who 

 also conducted the research work in connection with the life- 

 history of Symphosira parasitica. 



Entoloma Farrahi Mass. et Crossl. (sp. nov.). Figs. 1-4 on 

 plate. 



Pileo cylindric-ovato dein campanulato, subrepando, umbo- 

 nato, Isevi, sericio-fibrilloso, sicco, atro-cseruleo circa marginem 

 pallidiore, 6 — 8 cm. diam.; lamellis latis, sinuato-adnexis, ventri- 

 cosis, subdistantibus, carneis ; stipite solido, ventricoso, glabro, 

 pileo concolor basi albo, 5-7 cm., long ; 1*5-2 cm. eras. ; sporis 

 oblongo-ellipticis, lasvis, carneis, 10 + 4*5-5 l^y cystidia cuspidata, 

 ventricosa, 50-60 x 12-15 Z^- 



A very beautiful fungus, and almost unique in colouring, 

 being of a deep indigo-blue, becoming a little paler towards the 

 margin, disc almost black when young and unexpanded. Taste 

 mild ; smell none. 



Differs from all allies in the smooth elliptical spores. The 

 fungus belongs to the section of Entoloma including E. Bloxami, 

 E. madidum, and E. ardosiacum, the last-named being a doubtful 

 British species. 



Gregarious. Among short grass on 'The Terrace over- 

 looking Rievaulx Abbey, Helmsley.' (Coll. J. Farrah, F. L. S., at 

 the Y.N.U. Fungus Foray, 1903.) 



