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Others were Lepiota acutesquamosa, L. parvcniulata , L. semi- 

 iiuda, L. Bucknalli, TricJioloma sejunctiLin, T. sperinaticiiiii^ 

 T. leucocephaliun, CUtocyhe inveisa, Collybia aqiiosa, C. ocellata, 

 C. rancida, Mycena amicta, M, clavicularis, Inocvhe cchinafa, 

 Marasmuis lagopinus (first found in this country at Helmslev at 

 the 1903 Foray), Boletus piperatus, and several Cortinarii. One 

 of the features of this wood was the abundance of Entoloma 

 fudorosum. Another, the quantity of the deep crimson Hygro- 

 phorus puniceus among moss, dead twigs, etc., under hazel 

 bushes, four or five hundred yards away from a pasture. This is 

 a pasture species, and we were surprised to meet with it under 

 such conditions ; the colour was quite as vivid grown in the 

 shade, as ever we liave seen it in the open fields ; one cannot 

 safely dogmatise in limiting a plant absolutely to any particular 

 habitat or association. Oak and birch are the commonest trees 

 with a sprinkling of ash and sycamore. In some of the quarters 

 hazel is common. There are also many ancient yew trees, upon 

 one of which Paxillus panuoides had gained a foouhold in a 

 humus-lined crevice. The woods generally are rich in fine old 

 yews, many, judging by their enormous, rug"ged trunks, having 

 faced their live or six hundred winters, perhaps more. 



While at work on Tuesda}' in the upper part of ?^Ialtby Wood, 

 a good old native who expressed rather antiquated notions on 

 the Creation of all things, including the date, warned us that if 

 we took home ' them toadstools ' we should all be poisoned. It 

 seemed quite a relief to him to learn seriously that we were not 

 gathering them especially to eat, still he failed to understand 

 whv we were gathering them at all, if not for that purpose. He 

 was gathering blackberries. The old man is not by any miCans 

 alone in his belated ideas as to the principal object of promis- 

 cuously gathering toadstools and other fungi. A gradual 

 awakening, however, is coming about. By all means let edible 

 fungi be gathered for the ' pot ' if the gatherer knows the right 

 kind : it prevents a waste of tasty food. 



Among the things brought in bv the Firbeck and Stubbings 

 Wood party were Lepiota hispida, Triclioloma inanicEiiuin, J/r- 

 cena juiicicola, Pholiota spectahilis, Hypholoma cotoneuni Quel., 

 from which Dr. Cooke's pi. 543 in lUustr. might have been 

 figured (see Yorks. F. Flo., p. 103), H. incomptum, Hygrophorus 

 spadiceus, Russula chloroicies, R. puellaris^ Lentinus cochleafus^ 

 Dcedalea confragosa , Fistuliuci liepatica, and many Cortinarii, 



In Sandbeck Park there are some hne old beeches bordering 

 an avenue leading from the entrance to the residence. The 



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