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Crossland : Mycology at Sandsend. 
Close search was made for micro-species. On working out 
the results of the visit it was found that about 140 species had 
been examined, nineteen being additions to the previously 
known mycological flora of the district. (See below). 
Those marked * are new to Britain, and f new to York- 
shire. 
Coprinus drains B. and Br. 
Polyporus Rostkcvi Fr. 
* Corticium microsporum Karst, 
t Eichlericlla deglnbens (B. & Br.) 
— Radulum deglnbens B. & Br. 
— Radulum kmetii, Bres. 
— Hirneolina kmetii (Bres.), 
Sacc. and Trott. 
■f Coniophora Bcrkleyi Mass, 
t Gyrocephalus rnfns Pers. 
Urocytis violae (Sow.) 
f Rhopographus pteridis Fckl. 
I Spheerella maculiformis (Pers.), 
Awd. 
Spheerella pteridis (Desm.), De X. 
Hypoderma cnnigena (Pers.) 
Lophodermium pinastri (Schrad.), 
Chev. 
Ryparobius dubius Boud. 
+ Cenangium leoninum, Cke. and 
Mass. On hard decorticated 
wood. 
The bacterial disease on ash which sometimes kills young 
trees was noticed. 
Corticium microsporum Bourd. et Galz., in ‘ Bull. Soc. 
Myc. Fr.', XXVII., ign = C. byssinum Karst, var. microspora 
Bres. in ' Ann. Myc. I.,’ IQ03, page 06. Exs. Brinkmann. 
Westf. Pilz. No. 54. 
Irregularly effused on rotten wood, very thin and fragile. 
Hymenium when perfect smooth, forming a delicate pellicle, 
cream, with sometimes a faint pinkish tinge, often imperfect 
or cracked, showing the delicate white subiculum. Margin -white, 
indefinite. 
Basidia 4 p wide, with 2-4 sterigmata. 
Spores hyaline, minute, subglobose, 2 p in diameter or 
3 by 2 p, often with one small oil-drop. 
Subhymenical hyphae 1-2 p in diameter. Basal hyphae 
3-5 p, with clamp connections, sometimes encrusted with crystals. 
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Part X. of Volume 33 of The Transactions of the Manchester Geological 
and Mining Society, contains a remarkable paper by Mr. J. Lomax, entitled 
‘ Further Researches in the Microscopical Examination of Coal, especially 
in relation to Spontaneous Combustion.’ It is illustrated by 60 repro- 
ductions of photo-micrographs of sections of coal from Lancashire, 
Yorkshire, etc. 
f Phacidium minalissimum Auers. 
On dead oak leaves. 
* Taphridium umbelliferarum, 
Karst. On Heracleum. 
t Conyothyrium concentricinn Sacc. 
On decaying Aloes, 
f Phlyctcena vagabunda Desm. 
On dead thistle. 
f Cladosporium fasciculare Fr. On 
dead Monocotyledon. 
Additional Hosts for 
Yorkshire. 
Pitccinia menthce. On stolons of 
Ajuga re plans, 
Cystopus Candidas. On Arabis 
alpina, 
Darluca filum Cast. On the 
TEcidium stage of Puccinia 
brinmlce. 
Naturalist, 
