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They are incorporated in ' A Catalogue of the more rare plants 

 which gi'ow wild in the neighbourhood of Castle Howard.' 



In a second paper on the ' Flora of Yorkshire ' (Linn. 

 Trans., Vol. v.) Teesdale added considerably to his first 

 catalogue of 960 species, bringing the total to upwards of 1400 : 

 500 being Cryptogams, the most extensive list of Yorkshire 

 plants made up to that time (Baker, * Fathers of Yorkshire 

 Botany,' Y.X.U. Trans., viii.). 



In James Sowerby's ' Coloured Figures of British Fungi or 

 Mushrooms,' Vol. i., 1797, under Peziza acetabulum (Tab. LIX), 

 the author remarks : — ' I have been favoured with recent 

 specimens of this Peziza by the Rev. Mr. Budstone, who found 

 them at Sand Hutton, near York, growing on the earth at the 

 bottom of a shady hedge ; not. as usually reported, on rotten 

 wood.' In I.e., Vol. iii. (tab. 293), 1803, t^'^'o Clavarise are referred 

 to as being sent by the ' Rev. Mr. Hailstone, gathered on 

 Rumbles-moor, a few miles from Bradford, in Yorkshire, in 

 some peat holes.' 



Mr. Vv^ Brunton, of Ripon, sent fungi to Sowerby (Eng. 

 Fl., p. 204). 



In the ' Botanist's Guide through England and Wales ' 

 by Turner and Dillwyn, 1805, (Vol. ii., part 2, p. 744), Dawson 

 Turner, in criticising a lichen from Brimham Rocks, near Ripon, 

 named Lichen ruhiformis by Brunton, says : — ' I have taken 

 the liberty of subjoining a mark of doubt to this plant, because 

 the specimen I saw, the only one ever found, appeared to me 

 merely the leaf of L. pyxidatus with Sphoevia movi growing upon 

 it.' This is the earliest instance of the recognition of the fact 

 that fungi are parasitic in hchens. 



In 1824, Mr. John Atkinson, F.L.S., Leeds, wrote a sketch 

 of the Geographical Distribution of Plants in Yorkshire — Wer- 

 nerian Memoirs, Vol. v. (1824), p. 278. He stated that the 

 County Flora included 290 species of fungi. 



Charles Waterton, the noted Naturahst of Vv^alton Hall, 

 near Wakefield, had an article in the ' Architectural Magazine,' 

 (August, 1835, ii., pp. 361-2) ' On what is commonly called 

 dr}^ rot.' The following j^ear he contributed an article to 

 Louden's Magazine, (Feb. 1836, ix., pp. 74-79) on- ' Fungi 

 destroying Sycamore trees in Yorkshire.' 



In 185 1, a W. Anderson contributes a note to the ' Natura- 

 list ' (April, p 48) ' on a large fungus allied to Lycoperdon, at 

 Fulford, Yorks. 



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