
THE DUBLIN FORAY. 
HOWTH, POWERSCOURT, BRACKENSTOWN, BALLYARTHOUR, 
LUCAN AND DUNRAN, 
19-24th September, 1808. 
The second annual week’s fungus foray was held at Dud/in under 
the auspices of the Dub/in Naturalists’ Field Club, and a right royal 
welcome was extended to the Society and its members by the Dublin 
Club. The botanical rooms in the Science and Art Museum, 
Kildare Street, Dublin, were kindly placed at their disposal by the 
Director, Colonel Plunkett, and the Keeper of the Herbarium, 
Professor T. Johnson, D.Sc., who spared no effort in arranging for 
the exhibition of the fungi from day to day collected, and procuring 
all books, microscopes, and other apparatus necessary for their 
determination. 
Monday, the rgth of September, had been devoted in the pro- 
gramme to setting out and determining specimens sent in; but, 
owing to the drought that had prevailed for a long time, the members 
found there were scarcely any to deal with, and so a preliminary 
ramble was organized to Howth. Before starting Professor Johnson 
presented each member with a copy of “The fungi of the Counties 
of Dublin and Wicklow,” by our member, Mr. Greenwood Pim, M.A., 
reprinted from the “ Irish Naturalist ” for August, 1898, and which 
enumerates over 830 species. Howth demesne proved to be a most 
suitable hunting ground, and nice specimens of Hydnum udum Fr., 
Naucoria erinacea Fr.,and Lepiota acutesquamosa W einm. were obtained, 
and an immature tuber was found, probably Hydnotrya Tulasnei 
B. & Br. In the evening Mr. R. LI. Praeger, M.R.I.A., President 
of the Dublin Naturalists’ Field Club, received the members at the 
Botanical Laboratory, Royal College of Science, Saint Stephen's 
Green, and the naming of the specimens was at once proceeded with. 
Mr. Swann, F.L.S., exhibited a splendid series of photographs of the 
