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THE FUNGUS FLORA OF THE MULGRAVE 
DISTRICT. 
C. CROSSLAND, 
Halifax. 
The following is a summary of Mycological work done in the 
neighbourhood of Lythe. Mulgrave, and Sandsend. 1894. 1900. 
1908, 1910, 1911, 1912. and 1913. 
As a Mycological Section of the Yorkshire Naturalists’ 
Union, our first acquaintance with Mulgrave Woods was made 
in 1894 — 2nd to 4th September — when the Annual Foray was 
shared between Mulgrave and Arneliffe. with Whitby as 
centre. In the list of fungi found at both places 102 of the 
189 are marked ‘ M.’ The list was not printed, but remained 
in MS. about eight years, and then utilized in the compilation 
of the Yorkshire Fungus Flora. The Mulgrav list has one 
or two interesting features and pleasant reminders. A glance 
at the few Discomycetes shows four Helvellas to have been 
gathered — crispa, lacunosa, infula, and elastica. Lcptoglossum 
viride, another of this group, was seen in quantity on a mossy 
mound under a spreading beech tree. On other mounds were 
the abundant white gelatinous knobs of Hygrophorus cossus. 
while bene th and beyond the horizontal tree trunk near 
Sandsend the stream bank was decorated with the prettily- 
speckled Tricholoma terreum. These, and other sights of rarer 
species, fixed themselves on one’s mind, and made Mulgrave 
memorable. It was on this oc asion the interesting Xeotiella 
nivea was first found in Britain. 
That short visit created in the Committee a longing to see 
more of these woods, and although we wandered about York- 
shire. visiting Huddersfield and Hebden Bridge in 1895, Selby 
in 1896 (when the British Mycological Society was founded), 
Barnsley 1897, East Keswick 1898, and Sutton, near Askern, 
1899, we could not get Mulgrave Woods out of our minds. 
In consequence it was decided at Sutton to recommend Lythe 
for the year 1900. The Executive made the One hundred and 
fifty-fifth a joint Meeting — Whitby for the investigation of 
the Natural History of the Coastline from Sandsend to Kettle- 
ness, Saturday, 15th September, to be followed by a Fungus 
Foray centred at Lythe, 15th to the 22nd. Messrs. W. D. 
Roebuck and Edwin Hawksworth, in searching Lythe for 
suitable headquarters for the mycologists, fortunately alighted 
on Nineteenlands Farmstead, which proved both comfortable 
and convenient, and near the best part of Mulgrave Woods. 
No better situation could have been selected as a working 
centre. It was thought if sufficient material, from a systematic 
standpoint, could not be met with to keep us empjoy^d all 
Naturalist, 
