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MYCOLOGY AT SANDSEND. 
C. CROSSLAND, 
Halifax. 
June 6th to nth was spent by the major portion of the jny- 
cological committee, including its chairman, in an informal 
gathering at Sandsend. Saturday, Monday and Wednesday, 
being days when Mulgrave Woods are open by ticket to the 
public, the opportunity was taken to investigate them further 
for early fungi. 
Fourteen or fifteen parasitic species in the shape of rusts 
were noted ; among them were Puccinia menthce on the stolons, 
or runners of Ajuga reptans. This fungus, as its name implies, 
chiefly confines its attention to the mints; the only previous 
British record of its occurring on Ajuga is by Mr. Johnston in 
the ‘ Flora of Berwick,’ Vol. II., page 127. 
The group Thelephoraceae were specially sought for. These 
are flat, resupinate fungi that grow on decaying fallen branches, 
dead trunks, or worked wood. The collection was forwarded 
to Miss Elsie M. Wakefield, the Herbarium, Kew. Miss 
Wakefield is making a special study of this intricate group 
and welcomes freshly gathered material to work out. Of 
the 13 species sent, one, Corticium microsporum Karst., proved 
to be new to Britain. Another, around which there has been 
some doubt regarding its identity gathered here in September 
1911, was found a second time and settled — Eichleriella 
deglubens (see below). 
A few specimens of the remarkable Gyrocephalus rufus, 
Jacq., growing on a fallen rotting branch, hitherto unrecorded 
for Yorkshire, were brought in ; this being a species very rarely 
met with was at once figured by Miss Massee. 
One of the many micro-species collected was Taphridium 
umbelliferarum Karst., on decaying stem of Heracleum. not 
previously recorded for the British Flora. These rarities 
crop up unexpectedly, and go a long way towards repaying 
any trouble or expense that may have been connected with a 
visit. 
While agarics were few, one very nearly came into the house 
to us ; this was a fine Coprinus aratus just in its prime, spring- 
ing from one of the potato-ridges in our hostess’s garden. 
This also was figured by Miss Massee. It has only one previous 
county record. 
Another of the few agarics was Mycena flavipes in a charm- 
ing tuft of about twenty individuals ; it was drawn and re- 
corded from Mulgrave specimens by Mr. Massee in the ’eighties ; 
xve have met with it here several times since, but, so far as we 
know, it has not been found elsewhere than France. 
1914 Aug. 1 . 
