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MYCOLOGISTS AT SANDSEND. 
C. CROSSLAND, 
Halifax. 
The Twenty-fifth Annual Meeting of the Yorkshire Mycolo- 
gical Committee was held at Sandsend from 20th to 25th 
September, being the fifth occasion since the year 1900 on 
which the whole attention of the Committee, for the usual 
five days, has been devoted to Mulgrave Woods. We 
have been very much indebted to the Rev. the Marquis of 
Xormanby for allowing us so often to explore these venerable 
woodlands, and to the Rev. W. G. Harland, Vicar of Lythe, 
for granting the use of the school at Sandsend as a general 
meeting-place. 
There was an almost full attendance of the Mycological 
Committee, besides other members of the Union and friends, 
to the number of about twenty. The President of the Union 
put in a full attendance. The late James Needham, an almost 
constant attender since the Committee was formed, was 
missed. Mr. and Miss Ivy Massee, and Mr. A. Clarke, arrived 
on the Friday, and took a preliminary 1 >ok round the district. 
The likelihood of a lighter crop than usual was reported, and 
so it proved. There was a scarcity of the larger species, even 
of the commoner kinds, due to the comparatively dry autumn 
retarding the development of the mycelium. 
The heavy rain of Saturday night set going the dung fungi 
in the pastures, and by Monday fine specimens of Anellaria 
separata, and a few others which readily respond to 
autumn rains, were seen in fair quantity, notably four species 
belonging to the delicate genus Bolbitius, two of the four 
being additions to the flora of the district. The great majority 
however, are of a firmer substance, consequently more tardy 
in their development from mycelium growing in ordinary soil, 
leafmoukl, or rotting wood. Probably the somewhat un- 
favourable prospect stimulated us to increased energy in 
searching for the minuter kinds. Mr. Malone, though, is 
diligent at any time in hunting out microspecies of all descrip- 
tions. All the younger, and a few of the older members dis- 
played great activity in their investigations. When there is 
a smaller crop we console ourselves by thinking that fungi 
out of the ordinary run may be found. 
Splendid specimens of Cortinarus (Pltleg.) triumphant were 
met with. Mr. Massee remarked that he had not had the good 
fortune to see this beautiful species since the days of the 
Woolhope Club (Thos. Hebden reported it from Cullingworth 
in 1905). Cortinarius (Ino.) argentatus is one of the additions 
to Yorkshire. This species has much the appearance of young 
Agaricus areensis — in fact it was at first taken for that species. 
A charming tuft consisting of about ten individuals of 
Naturalist, 
