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THE WHITBY FORAY. | 
12th to 17th September, 1904. 
The eighth annual week’s Fungus Foray was held in the 
neighbourhood of Whitby, where the Hotel Métropole was 
constituted the headquarters for the meeting. The members 
assembled at Whitby on the evening of Monday, the 12th of 
September, and proceeded to discuss some specimens that chey 
had brought with them. Dr. D. Paul offered for Inspection 
some examples of the somewhat scarce Inocybe calamistrata 
Fr. which he had received from our fellow member Mr. Angus 
Grant, from the neighbourhood of Drumnadrochit. Dr. W. 
Watson handed round some very large specimens of Peri- 
dermium pint (Willd.). Mr. W. B. Allen exhibited some nice 
forms of Collybta extuberans Batt., Inocybe maritima Fr. 
Cortinarius (Inoloma) traganus Fr., Polyporus rufescens Fr. 
and Mitrophora semilibera Lév. And on the following morn- 
ing the Hon. Sec. drew their attention to a specimen of Hydnum 
graveolens Delast. which he had recently received from their 
member Dr. Adams, of Looe. This fungus possesses a very 
strong penetrating smell suggestive of Fenugreek or Belladonna. 
On Tuesday, the 13th of September, the members booked by 
the 10.5 train from the Town Station to Egton, from whence a 
short walk brought them to the Arncliffe Woods. These woods 
are very picturesquely situated on the banks of the River Esk 
and in a favourable season abound with fungi, but only the fol- 
lowing were found worthy of note: Mycena haematopus Pers., 
Amanita virosa Fr., Inocybe hystrix Fr., Naucorta sobria Fr, 
Kussula densifolia Secr., Cortinarius (Phlegmacium) decolor- 
atus Fr, (Telamonia) armillatus Fr. (Hygrocybe) bicolor Cke. 
and Cordyceps ophioglossoides Fr. parasitic on Elaphomyces 
variegatus Vitt. After the woods had been thoroughly searched 
the members returned by train from Glaisdale to Whitby and 
proceeded at once to place out the more uncommon specimens 
on exhibition in a sitting-room at the Hotel Métropole which 
was exclusively reserved for the use of the members during the 
remainder of the week. At the evening meeting (in the absence 
of the President, Mr. Worthington G. Smith, F.L.S.) Dr. W. 
Watson was unanimously called upon to preside over the meet- 
ings during the foray. A vote of condolence and deep 
oy was then carried with The Cryptogamic Society of 
cotland at the great loss they and all other British mycologists 
