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THE SAVERNAKE FOREST FORAY. 
5th to roth Oct., 1903. 
The seventh annual week’s Fungus Foray was held in Savernake 
Forest and the Ailesbury Arms Hotel, Marlborough was constituted 
the headquarters for the meeting. Here the members assembled on 
Monday the 5th of October, and in the evening in a spacious room 
that had been secured in the Hotel for the exclusive use of the mem- 
bers, some interesting specimens were already set out on exhibition 
on the plates. The President the Rev. W. L. W. Eyre, brought 
from Swarraton, some nice examples of Lepiota lenticularis (Lasch) 
which Fries erroneously places in the Amanitae and Lycoperdon velatum 
Vitt.,* sent a few days earlier to the Secretary. Mr. W. B. Allen 
exhibited from the neighbourhood of Broseley, Lepiota carchartas 
Pers., L.acutesquamosa Weinm., Inocybe obscura Pers., Boletus vartegatus 
Swartz. B. versipellis Fr.. and Geaster rufescens Pers., and from 
Wyre Forest Trametes Bulliardi Fr. and Tremellodon gelatinosum Scop., 
and Mrs. Carleton Rea placed on the plates from the vicinity 
of Perth, Armillaria bulbigera A. & S., Pholiota aurea Mattusch., 
Inocybe lateritia Weinm, Trametes mollis, (Sommerf.), Sparassis crispa 
Fr., Clavaria Ardenia Sow., Cordyceps ophioglossoides Fr.. parasitic on 
Elaphomyces variegatus Vitt. and a mycetozoon that Mr. Arthur Lister 
next day identified as Lepidoderma tigrinum Rost. 
On Tuesday, the 6th of October, a start was made from the Head- 
quarters at 10 a.m. punctually, the members walking via the old 
Roman station of Cunetio into Savernake Forest, where they 
searched the portion that lies adjacent to the road that leads to the 
village of Savernake. Here they were rewarded with several interest- 
ing finds including Pilacre faginea B. & Br., Hygrophorus metapodius 
Fr., H. fusco-albus Fr., Pholiota adiposa Fr., Cortinarius (Phl:gmacium ) 
emollitus Fr., and cristallinus Fr., Clavaria Krombholzii ¥r., C. Kunzet 
Fr., C. /uteoalba Rea,t anda large patch some 18 inches or more 
across of the mycetozoon Stemonitis fusca Roth., var. confluens Lister. 
At the evening meeting, the Hon. Secretary had much pleasure in 
informing the members that he had now closed the list of foundation 
members, and that about seventy members still remained on the active 
list. Since his last report seventeen new members had joined the 
* For description see Trans. Brit. Myc. Socy. vol. ii, p. 39, and 
Pl. 3 hereof. 
+ See p. 66, and Pl. 3. 
