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It will be seen that Lactarius livid its Lamb, is new to Britain ; 
its full description will be given in The Naturalist in due 
course. 
Mycena prolifera Sow. is only new in name ; hitherto it 
has been recorded as Mycena galericulata var. calopoda Fr.. 
Recently Miss Massee has proved, by the aid of its microscopic 
characters, that it bears no relation to M. galericulata, and 
decides it to be Mycena prolifera Sow. 
On summing up the work done up to date, we find that 
1304 species have been registered as found within an area of 
about i| square miles, or to be more definite, 1167 acres. Of 
course five-sixths of the ground investigated has been the rich 
old woodlands, but even then, only 5 days have been given on 
each of the 12 visits. 
The places searched on the several forays have been the 
Sandsend Valley and sides as far as the Old Foss Mill on the 
Barn by Beck, rather over two miles, and about the same dis- 
tance up the valley and hill sides drained by East Row Beck, 
including the Dear Park, Gillam or the woods beneath Nine- 
teen Lands, the vicinity of Mulgrave Old Castle, Castle Rigg, 
The Hermitage. Devil’s Bridge in Biggersdale Hole, Ash Holme, 
The Haggs, Sandsend Rigg, etc. 
Of these 1304 recorded species for this small area, about 
173 have been additions to the County records, since the pub- 
lication of the Yorkshire Fungus Flora in 1905, 28 of which 
proved to be new to Britain, and 2 new to Science. The two 
new to Science are Pluteolus mulgravensis Mass, and Crossl., 
and Clavaria crosslandii Cotton. See The Naturalist, 1912, 
pp. 85-86. 
For these most excellent results every credit is due to our 
worthy chairman, who has gone to the trouble and expense of 
11 or 12 journeys all the way from Kew to preside over the 
investigations : accompanied five or six times by his daughter. 
Miss Ivy Massee, a rapidly rising expert in mycology. 
Sir H. C. Hawley has this year journeyed from Sussex, 
and on three or four previous occasions from London, to join 
in the work. 
On our third visit we estimated that if allowed the privilege, 
and persevered in the work, we might secure at least 1000 
species, so that our original estimate has been greatly exceeded. 
We owe much of the success to the vigorous and diligent 
investigation by members of the Mycological Committee, and 
other members of the Union, present on each and every 
occasion. 
The constant additions make it evident that the ground 
is by no means fully worked for its production of macro- 
species, and there must be numerous micro-species on both 
living and dead branches, twigs, leaves, and herbaceous vege- 
1914 Dec. 1. 
