100 Prof. Marshall Ward, Notes on some of the Rarer, etc. 
Inocybe hirsuta, Lasch.; I. fastigiata, Schaeff ; Flammula sapinea, 
Fr. ; F. scamba, Fr. ; Tubaria paludosa, Fr. ; Stropharia albo- 
cyanea, Desm. ; Hypholoma capnoides, Fr. ; H. lachrymabundus, 
Fr. ; Cortinarius varius, Fr. ; C. multiformis, Fr. ; Paxillus atro- 
tomentosus, Fr. ; Hygrophorus agathosmus, Fr. ; Lactarius hysgi- 
nus, Fr. ; L. glyciosmus, Fr. 
Boletus bovinus, L. ; B. impolitus, Fr. ; Polyporus Schweinitzii, 
Fr. ; P. fragilis, Fr. ; P. amorphus, Fr. ; Trametes Pini, Fr. ; Meru- 
lius pallens, Berk. 
Hydnum fragile, Fr.; H. aurantiacum, A. and S.; H.ferrugin- 
eum, Fr.; H. scrobiculatum, Fr.; H. zonatum, Batsch. ; H. rnelaleu- 
cum, Fr.; Sistotrema confluens , Pers.; Gorticium sanguineum , Fr. 
Glavaria amethystina, Bull; G. stricta, Pers.; Rhizopogon 
rubescens, Tul.; Helvella lacunosa, Afzel, and H. elastica, Bull; 
Peziza violacea, Pers.; and the very pretty Myxomycete Tubulina 
cylindrica, Bull. 
A more complete list of the fungi gathered on Speyside will 
appear in the forthcoming volume of the Transactions of the 
British Mycological Society. 
The following are among the more remarkable species collected 
last autumn in the neighbourhood of Halifax, Yorks., where Mr 
Crossland kindly took me over some ground well known to myco- 
logists. 
Boletus porpliyrosporus , Fr. ; Fomes variegatus, Seer.; Hygro- 
phorus Golemannianus, Blox. ; H. nitratus, Pers. ; Inocybe plumosa, 
Bolt. ; I. asterospora, Quel. ; Russula ochracea, Fr. ; R. sanguinea, 
Fr. ; and Cortinarius decolor ans, Fr. 
Notes on Artificial Cultures of Xylaria. By Miss E. Dale 
(communicated by Professor Marshall Ward). 
[Read 4 February 1901.] 
Two species, Xylaria polymorplia and X. Hypoxylon, have 
been cultivated from the ascospores, which germinated in various 
nutritive media. The fungus was then grown upon sterilized 
wood — beech, oak, and silver fir, on which it formed a dense 
flocculent mycelium, at first white and later grey and then still 
darker. After 3 or 4 months cylindrical conidiophores arose, 
whose length varied from about 1 to 3 cms. In X. polymorpha 
each bore numerous conidia on its upper end. In X. Hypoxylon 
the conidiophores have so far been sterile. In the artificial 
cultures these stromata have not yet developed further. Those 
