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brings the subject up to date, and furnishes evidence of a ofreat 

 amount of careful research. It is said there are 740 species of 

 fungi known which may be cooked and eaten with safety, or can 

 be utilised for some other economic purpose. Some of the 

 members looked somewhat askance at the mention of Boletus 

 satmias, B. luridus, B. piperatus, and Hypholoyna fasciculare as 

 edible species ; Mr. Holland, however, said that he had good 

 authority for his statement, though he had not tried them 

 himself. This series of papers, taken as a whole, deal more 

 fully with this side of the subject than any work hitherto 

 published. 



The edible species on exhibit were grouped together to 

 illustrate the paper. 



Several Maltby people who had expressed a desire to see the 

 exhibition were present by invitation, and took much interest in 

 the ' show ' and proceedings. 



A box of specimens was received from Mr. Snelgrove, 

 Sheffield. Mr. Holland brought a good list of species collected 

 at Woodhall Spa, Lincolnshire, by Mrs. Crosland Taylor ; this 

 was passed on, in due course, to the secretary of the Lincolnshire 

 Naturalists' Union. 



Miss Lucy Reynolds, B.A., of Kendal, sent to the meeting a 

 most interesting fascicle of fifty-seven water colour sketches of 

 fungi for identification. They had been made by Miss Reynolds 

 during the present autumn from specimens collected on Posser 

 Fell, Westmorland. This lady stated in her communication 

 accompanying the drawings that she ' began them from an" 

 artistic delight in their beauty, not with any idea of scientific 

 study : now that I see more of their variety, I long to know more 

 of them.' They were mostly agarics, and the specific characters 

 were so faithfully portrayed (though the lady herself said they 

 were diagrammatic) that nearly all were recognised and named. 



The total number of species identified is 401 : — 



Gastromycetes .. 



10 



Uredinacffi 



10 



Agaricacea3 



• 233 



Ustilaginacai ... 



2 



PolyporaceaB 



• 25 



Pyrenomycetes... 



19 



Hydnaceffi 



2 



Discomycetes ... 



47 



Clavariacege 



• 9 



Phycomycetes ... 



5 



Thelephoraceae .. 



7 



Hyphomycetes... 



10 



Tremellaceae 



4 



Myxomycetes ... 



18 



Twenty-three species have only once previously been recorded 

 for Yorkshire, while the following eight are new to the county 

 Clitocybe sub-involutus , Mycena liucata, Cortinarius i^Phteg:) 



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