i8o Crossland : Recently Discovered Fungi in Yorkshire. 



p. 238, p. 2, f. i) ; Mollisia retincola (' Karst Myc. Fenn. I.'^ 

 p. 209). 



S.E. — Mere side, Hornsea. On dead stems of Phragmites 

 communis Nat.', Aug. '08, pp. 309-10). 



Description taken from the Hornsea specimens : — 



Ascophores gregarious or scattered, seated on a dark brown 

 suhicuhim, attached to the matrix by a central point, closed and 

 subglobose at first, then expanded till plane or only slightly convex,, 

 with raised margin, disc pale yellow or whitish, 1.5 — 3 mm. 

 across, margin lobed in well-grown specimens, exterior dark 

 grey-broicn, margin pale ; excipulum of radially densely inter- 

 mingled, hyaline, hyphce 2 — 2.5 \i thick, cortical cells brown, 

 globose, 11-14 /X diam, running out to elongated, hyaline, parallel 

 cells at the margin ; Asci narrowly clavate, apex narrowed to 

 an obtuse point, 100-120x7 fj^ (broadest part) ; Spores 8, hyaline,, 

 sub-biseriate, straight or curved (mostly curved), linear fusiform^ 

 ends rounded, 20-23 X 3 /x, irregularly guttulate, oftenest with 

 3-4 globules at each end, centre indistinctly minutely granular, 

 no trace of septa ; paraphyses sublinear, slightly widening up- 

 wards, 3-4 fj-, thick, contents granular in some, homogeneous and 

 glistening in others, difficult to separate from the asci. 



Hyphce of subiculum dark brown, flexuous, 4.5-5 thick. 



NEW TO YORKSHIRE. 



Geaster mammosus Chev. 



N.W. — A fine collection of this ' earth star ' was found under 

 a hedge, pasture side, near the village of Witton, Wensleydale, 

 March 1908, by W. A. Thwaites, Masham. [To follow No. 12].. 



Lepiota glioderma Gill. 



N.E. — Mulgrave Woods. On the ground among grass. 

 (F.F., '08, ' Nat.', Jan. '09, p. 24). [To precede No. 80]. 



Tricholoma squarrulosum Bres. 



N.E.— Mulgrave Woods. On the ground. (F.F., '08, 'Nat.',. 

 Jan. '09, p. 24). [To follow No. 107]. 



T. CERiNUM Quel. 



N.E.— Mulgrave Woods, (F.F., '08,/ Nat.', Jan. '09, p. 24).. 

 [To follow No. 115]. 



Clitocybe comitalis Gill. 



N.E. — Mulgrave Woods. (F.F., '08, ' Nat.', Jan. '09, p. 

 24). [To follow No. 139]. 



Naturalist, 



