MYCOLOGIST NEWS

The newsletter of the British Mycological Society 2011 (2) Edited by Dr. Pieter van West, and Dr. Anpu Varghese

2011 BMS Council

BMS Council and Committee Members 2011

President Prof. Naresh Magan Vice-President Dr. Stuart Skeates President Elect Dr. Geoff Robson Treasurer Prof. Geoff M Gadd Secretary Position vacant Publications Officer Dr. Pieter van West International Initiatives Adviser Prof. AJ Whalley Fungal Biology Research Committee representatives: Dr. Simon Avery; Prof Nick Read Fungal Education and Outreach Committee: Dr. Paul S. Dyer; Ms. Carol Hobart Field Mycology and Conservation: Dr. David Minter; Prof. Bruce Ing

Fungal Biology Research Committee Dr. Simon Avery (Chair) retiring 31.12. 2012 Dr. Elaine Bignell retiring 31.12. 2013 Dr. Mark Ramsdale retiring 31.12. 2013 Prof. Nick Read retiring 31.12. 2013 Dr. Pieter van West retiring 31.12. 2013 Dr. Peter Crittenden retiring 31.12. 2011 Dr. Fordyce Davidson retiring 31.12. 2011 Dr. David Minter (FMC link) retiring 31.12. 2011

Fungal Education and Outreach Committee Dr. Paul S. Dyer (Chair and FBR link) retiring 31.12. 2013 Dr. Matt Fisher retiring 31.12. 2011 Dr. Ali Ashby retiring 31.12. 2013 Ms. Carol Hobart (FMC link) retiring 31.12. 2012 Dr. Sue Assinder retiring 31.12. 2013 Dr. Kay Yeoman retiring 31.12. 2013 KS4 representative still needed

Field Mycology and Conservation Committee Dr. Stuart Skeates (Chair and website) retiring 31.12. 2011 Prof. Bruce Ing (Conservation) retiring 31.12. 2012 Dr. Paul Kirk (Database) retiring 31.12. 2012 Ms. Carol Hobart (Events and FEO link) retiring 31.12. 2012 Dr. Dave Minter (FBR Link) retiring 31.12. 2011 Dr. Derek Schafer (membership database and accounts) retiring 31.12. 2011 Mrs. Sheila Spence (Recorders network co-ordinator) retiring 31.12. 2013

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From the Office

Hello and welcome to the 2nd issue of the BMS Newsletter for Contents 2011. BMS President - Prof Naresh Magan 4

The reports of a potential drought seem at odds From Another Kingdom moves to Wales 5 with the sporadic monsoons which seem to BMS 2010 Overseas Foray Report 6 occur with increasing regularity. Hopefully the BMS Small Grant Report—West Weald coming fungus season will be more fruitful than 9 last year and the planned BMS forays will have Fungus Group lots to report. As we go to press the Spring BMS Bursary Report 10 Meeting has taken place at Northern College, Stainsborough, South Yorkshire on May 16th- BMS Autumn Open Meeting 11 21st, following on from the Ascomycetes Workshop held from the 13th of May to the BMS 2010 Autumn Foray Report 12 15th. Hopefully we should have a clutch of Obituary - Dr Jack Marriott 13 articles reporting on this for inclusion in the next issue. Field Meetings 2011 14 BMS 2011 Annual Scientific meeting 18 In this issue on page 13 you will find an obituary for Jack Marriott who sadly passed away on the Jack Marriott Memorial Foray details 20 19th of December 2010. A memorial foray to mark his passing has been organized to take place on Saturday September 24th in the Forest of Dean. Further details can be found at the end of this newsletter. Potential attendees should let the organizers know of their intention to attend as soon as possible, to give an idea of numbers.

The Main BMS Scientific Meeting will take place in Exeter in September from Tuesday 12th to Norman Porrett Friday 16th. Anyone wishing to attend should Sophie Embleton Administrator BMS Office look at the BMS website for further information, Field Mycology Assistant or contact the office for a programme of events etc. The BMS AGM will take place on the evening of Thursday September 15th at 18:30 Newsletter Articles in Newman A. (Peter Chalk Building) Stocker Road, University of Exeter during this event. Do you have any items you would like to see published in the Newsletter which would be of As ever, please let us know if you have any interest to members? items you would like to see featured in the newsletter, or anything you would like to see We would love to receive short reports of any more about. activities, upcoming events, items of interest, etc. Enjoy the summer (whenever it arrives!) Please send items to the office or email to: [email protected] The BMS Office Team

Deadline for article submission into next issue: 1st September 2011

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Prof. Naresh Magan BMS President 2011-2013

permanent home at the Welsh Botanical Gardens.

We have our annual conference in a different University every year. This year we look forward to the Conference in Exeter University where the focus will be on “Fungal Biology and Pathogenesis” in September. I am particularly looking forward to this meeting as I completed both my 1st degree and MSc in Plant Pathology at Exeter and am keen to see the changes made since I studied there in the 1970s!. In 2012 we have a Symposium in Alicante, Spain which again demonstrates the commitment we have to broadening the involvement of mycologists in the BMS internationally. We encourage student members to attend our annual meetings and fungal forays and offer subsidies to facilitate their involvement.

Prof. Naresh Magan So whether you have an interest in educating school BMS President 2011-2013 children, to making mycology interesting at undergraduate level, carry out research at a post- During the past two years Prof. Lynne Boddy graduate or post-doctoral research level, enjoy fungal (immediate past-President) initiated some significant forays or have an interest in conservation issues, or changes which were followed through in 2010. This generally increase your knowledge of mycology, momentum to move the BMS forward by continuing there is a home for you in the BMS. its involvement in all spheres of mycology by the creation and focus of its work in three areas: Field I became interested in mycology as an Mycology and Conservation, Fungal Biology and undergraduate at Exeter University under the Fungal Education and Outreach, will help to both guidance of Prof. John Webster and then during my broaden our involvement in mycological education MSc where I was fortunate to also be taught by Prof. and dissemination as well as focussing on key areas Alan Rayner. I joined the BMS when I started my which we hope will be attractive to all members and PhD in 1979-1980, first as a student member and encourage new members to get involved. The subsequently as a full member. I personally found outstanding success of the International Mycological the contacts and interaction both as a student and Congress in Edinburgh (IMC9) under the excellent subsequently during my career working on local co-ordination of Prof. Nick Read and colleagues ecophysiology and molecular biology of spoilage and also demonstrated the impact that the BMS can mycotoxigenic and biocontrol fungi very useful and make internationally. beneficial over the last 25 years.

We are actively involved in publications at all levels Despite the present economic restraints which are and this includes the Journals Fungal Biology, being imposed on us in all spheres of activity, I Fungal Ecology, Fungal Biology Reviews and Field believe that the impact that mycology will have in the Mycology which cater for the whole spectrum of coming 5-10 years will be significant. The increasing mycologists. BMS members were also directly importance being placed on global food security involved in the writing of Chapters in “From Another issues, sustainability and climate change means that Kingdom - the amazing world of fungi” which was mycological expertise will be essential and play an jointly edited by Prof. Lynne Boddy and was increasingly important role in solving these issues. If launched at IMC9 in conjunction with an exhibition at you have an interest in any aspect of mycology then the Edinburgh Royal Botanical Gardens. This was please join us! extremely successful and attracted school children, Prof. Naresh Magan families, field mycologists and scientists alike. This Roadshow is now destined to have a more

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From Another Kingdom moves to Wales

The grand opening on 18th March was attended by mycologists from the surrounding area who were welcomed by Dr Rosetta Plumber, Director of the National Botanic Garden of Wales to this outstanding venue. Professor Lynne Boddy of Cardiff University then gave a brief introduction to the exhibition itself, explaining its background, evolution and diversity before ‘cutting the ribbon’ and announcing the exhibition to be officially open. The exhibition was very well received by all for both its educational and its wow factor, appealing to all age groups and knowledge levels.

Dr Rosetta Plumber welcoming the attendees prior to the opening of the exhibition. Photograph © Sheila Spence. From the huge model toadstools as you walk through the From Another Kingdom, the first major entrance, past the exhibition in the UK to focus on the fascinating bowl of ‘rotting’ food, world of fungi has taken up residence in Wales through the labyrinth following its initial launch at Royal Botanic of wonderful Gardens Edinburgh in Autumn 2010. Now on photographs and show at the National Botanic Garden of Wales models including this imaginative and fascinating exhibition will mycorrhizal fungi be hosted here until 28th February 2013. seen from the underground The interactive exhibition reveals the intimate details perspective and of fungi in a way they have never been shown indeed the lifelike before, challenging misconceptions and showing forest of model fungi, how they are vital to the survival of life on earth. the entire display gives a truly amazing The touring exhibition is in the display area of the insight into Kingdom Great Glasshouse which has been transformed into Fungi in all its a labyrinth of wonderful diversity. Some of the fungi models. themed spaces Photograph © Sheila Spence. where visitors will Further information come face-to-face from www.gardenofwales.org.uk with fungal diversity, myths Sheila Spence and magic and the Gwent Fungus Group role fungi play in eco-systems and recycling.

Highlights include a forest of super- sized toadstools, glow-in-the-dark mushrooms and a version of Russian roulette involving deadly poisonous Lynne Boddy amongst the giant fungi. mushrooms. Photograph © Sheila Spence 5

BMS Overseas Foray Sampeyre, Varaita Valley, Cuneo, Italian Alps, 29 Sept – 8 Oct 2010

Overseas Foray Group. Photograph © C Hobart. The Italian Alps in the shadow of Monte Viso are It was a most international crowd of nearly 60 deeply cut by valleys carved by rivers that carry away delegates, as the local newspaper observed, with spring melt waters from the high snow cover. The participants (besides Brits and Italians) coming from great River Po rises in this region, although our Australia, Belgium, France, and no less than five excursion was centred on the less well-known valley members from the People’s Republic of China, of the Varaita. Both rivers drain down on to rich representing Institutes of Microbiology in Guangzhou agricultural plains that support ancient and prosperous and Beijing. Enthusiastic, though approximate Italian towns. Generally, this region presents a succession of was essayed by many of the BMS members, and not vegetation zones ranging from alpine to piedmont, and for the first time we were grateful that scientific a variety of fungi to match. The climate in the foothills nomenclature is an international language, even if the facing the Po valley is distinctly warm. Geologically, pronunciations occasionally generated mutual the area is very different from the Alpes Maritimes puzzlement. The Associazione publishes an excellent, across the border in nearby France, a region full colour journal illustrating mycological discoveries in dominated by limestones forming spectacular gorges. the area, copies of which were freely available for In this part of Italy, by contrast, the predominant rocks delegates to take home. Our Hotel Torinetto was a are highly metamorphosed micaceous schists and comfortable base on the edge of Sampeyre, with gneisses, which form gaunt crags, and generate acid ample laboratory space on a basement level. Morning soils rather than the limy substrates to the south. But forays were followed by a substantial lunch, leaving even here local patches of serpentine can alter the pH the afternoon free for study or post-prandial snoozing, towards the alkaline and change the mycota. or some agreeable combination of the two. Evening lectures were held in a comfortable room on the top Our hosts were the Associazione Micologico floor. With wine flowing gratis with the plentiful evening Bovesana e delle Alpi Cuneesi – Ugo Mari Cumino meal beforehand, a certain amount of snoozing went (“A.M.B.A.C.- Cumino” for short) who devised a on there, too. The weather was generally kind to us. succession of forays to explore a range of the local habitats. Steve Kelly had established the feasibility of Foraying began in a gentle way on Thursday with a such a foray in the area the previous year, and now stroll through open woods of birch, beech and aspen handled logistics for the UK contingent. The local on the mountain above Valmala. Reaching such sites organiser was the indefatigable Gianfranco Armando was always exciting, driving around apparently who seems to have played a part in every other endless hairpin bends, but nobody came to grief. regional organisation, ably assisted by Giovanni Notable finds included a fine clump of Psathyrella Manavella and Iolanda Armand Ugon. Alfredo Vizzini cotonea on a beech stump. The orange tinted Amanita from the University of Turin was invited as expert tutor. crocea was found alongside the familiar A. muscaria

6 ► and A. spissa. Shady glades with ferns yielded the tiny made for a varied patchwork of habitats. Many Mycena pterigena on old fronds, with its pink edged mycorrhizal species were in evidence, tracking their gills, as well as some rarely recognised dark coloured favoured hosts. For example, in the damp gullies the species such as Lyophyllum (Tephrocybe) boudieri. exceedingly slimy Cortinarius trivialis was discovered Twigs were covered with Hymenoscyphus herbarum, with Salix; nearby, the subtly lilac tinted Lactarius sometimes accompanied by the delicate ‘crowns’ of lilacinus was associated with alder. Fallen trunks and Cyathicula coronatum. Cortinarius violaceus was found branches were less demanding, with Fomitopsis in several localities, along with several other species of pinicola on alder despite its species name, along with this challenging genus having less distinctive Trametes pubescens, and Lopharia spadicea (rare in signatures. The striking small red bracket Pycnoporus Britain) on sticks. Strikingly white Lyophyllum cinnabarinus was found on several small branches; a connatum stood out among the saprotrophs. The species with very few records on the British database. conifers had a fine range of associated Hygrophorus Lactarius hysginus was not uncommon. Edible fungi species, among which the lemon yellow H. lucorum included Macrolepiota species, and several porcini and orange centred H. speciosus - both with larch - (Boletus edulis) were collected, the latter being rather were particularly attractive. The former is not common surprising since the local inhabitants are deeply in Britain, and the latter lacking fully authenticated dedicated to its discovery and consumption. In fact, records. Hygrophorus pudorinus was common in many rather more people in Italy died this year from falling off places – although it is one of the species on the precipices in search of the perfect cep than perished provisional red data list for the UK. H. poetarum has from eating the wrong agarics. been recorded from Scotland, but possibly not authentically so. This was a chance to see these Friday saw a visit to the hills above Venasca. The species where they are still numerous. Why they are region is a source for most of the large sweet apparently so rare in Britain is an interesting question. chestnuts on sale in British supermarkets, and they are Unusual species were also to be found in the open farmed organically in groves on the lower mountain glades. A fairy ring of a striking white fungus with pink slopes, with Quercus, Corylus, and other broad leaved gills proved to be no Clitopilus but rather Leucopaxillus trees interspersed. Most chestnut trees are not allowed rhodoleucus – and further Leucopaxillus species were to achieve a great age, but we visited one true giant also recognised elsewhere. Hygrocybe spp., on the that must have evaded the woodcutters for several other hand, were not abundant. Most of us had not hundred years. Much excitement was generated on the seen the bright orange Lactarius porninsis (under track through the woods by the discovery among moss larch) before, although it has a few Scottish records. It of the small white Cyphellostereum laeve, a fungus formed a suitable introduction for our evening lecture superficially resembling a small bleached cantharelloid, on Lactarius from Maria Teresa Basso, who tracked a apparently only its second occurrence in Italy. From an succession of species from the Mediterranean maquis aesthetic point of view it would have been hard to beat to the alpine meadows, changing in sympathy with the several large pinkish Ramaria species. The their mycorrhizal partners all the way. environment suited Russula (R. amoena and R. viscida among them) and Lactarius in variety. The chestnut Sunday was a non-foray day, but with a trip to the groves afforded suitable steep slopes for stipitate ‘Festival of fungi and chestnuts’ in the small town of hydnoids, among which a dark Phellodon species Rossana, of which Gianfranco Armando had formerly comparable with P. niger was taken back to Jodrell been mayor. Stalls were laden with porcini but also Laboratory, Royal Botanic Gardens Kew by Martyn Grifolia frondosa, which is patently a favourite (up to 75 Ainsworth as a contribution to his revision of this group. euros for a big clump). Also in evidence was an entirely The slopes also yielded a truffle Gautieria lemon coloured porcini that has been claimed as a morchelliformis, a hypogeous relative of Ramaria, local endemic species, Boletus citrinus. An exhibition in looking something like a small brain emerging from the the town hall “Il re Fungo” brought in fruitbodies from ground. Chestnut cupules were colonised by brown the whole region, laid out on a huge table in bowls. The discomycete which proved to be Ciboria batschiana. It strikingly pink-capped Boletus regius was on display was noticeable that Hypholoma sublateritium alongside several beautiful Ramaria species; most of abounded on old stumps, and was much commoner the Amanitas would be familiar from British woods, but here than H. fasciculatum, the reverse of the usual it was apparently too late for A. caesarea. Rather too situation in Britain. In the evening we heard from Dr many Cortinarius species were recommended as Vizzini how molecular studies have served to reveal edible for the comfort of those who doubt their ability to the polyphyly lurking in the old Clitocybe, and even in handle the taxonomy. Tricholoma pardinum was a Volvariella; our Lynne Boddy, then treated us to an similar case in point for those who have tried T. account of the stark competition between mycelia in terreum. In the evening Fabrizio Boccardo took us on a nature – ‘fungus wars’. mycological journey from sea to tundra similar to that we had taken the previous evening, but this time in the On Saturday it was back to the high mountains to company of his own beautiful illustrations of Russula Becetto, where open forest, with birch and Pinus and species. Our Chinese colleagues told us of serious fir/spruce groves amid patches of open grassland, poisoning in China by one species, R. subnigricans, crossed by narrow gullies lined with Salix and Alnus, which has been lethal in several cases. Part of the

7 ► molecular work to help clarify the taxonomy of their specimen of a rare gasteromycete, Trichaster native species because of confusion in the past. melanocephalus, which, as so often happens with interesting finds, she discovered near a car park not far Monday took us to a mountainous area called Fondovet from the hotel rather than on an ‘official’ foray. It looks which was swathed in serious mist. The Abies and Larix something like a cross between a large ‘stilt puffball’ and forest were dripping. By now we were beginning to a Geastrum. expect numbers of brightly coloured Hygrophori like H. pudorinus and here they were again. Boletinus cavipes under larch and Suillus sibiricus under Pinus cembrus were abundant. A particularly large Amanita of the vaginatae group caused some discussion: the nomenclature is in a state of flux, but lividopallescens was a name frequently used. Fortunately, no such confusion reigned for A. muscaria. Tricholoma psammopus was collected here, as was Russula cavipes, the latter with few British records. Cortinarius salor and C. lilacinus were positively identified. Of non mycorrhizal species Cystoderma cacharias, Collybia cirrhata, and Mycena species (especially M. pura and M epipterygia) were everywhere; Stropharia aeruginosa and S. inuncta were on the wayside, where they were Trichaster melanocephalus. joined by Lycoperdon mollis and L. perlatum. Phototgraph © C Hobart Leucopaxillus gentianus and L. paradoxus were unusual large species in the pasture. Peniophora aurantiaca Wednesday was blessed with perfect weather, and formed orange patches on Alnus viridis twigs. It may not three localities. The first was on a hillside park near the be authentically recorded from Britain. Rain swept in to plains (Ciciu) where weathering following the Würm curtail proceeding further than the charming mountain glaciation has produced spectacular scenery of hard refugio for lunch. By the evening we were ready to hear rock “hats” perched on columns of softer rocks up to ten Giorgio Baiano deliver a very good talk about Helvella metres high. Tracks wandered through this surreal species in alpine altitudes. On display was a small landscape among Quercus of three species, together orange bracket growing on sticks, having very large with poplar, and willow. Because it was warmer at low polygonal (pseudo) pores: Favolaschia calocera. It is an altitudes and relatively dry, there was little on the antipodean species which seems to have arrived in Italy ground. However, the famously luminous (and in the port of Genoa, from where it is spreading; Signor poisonous) orange agaric Omphalotus olearius was Rossi kindly brought it to show us. numerous. Bracket lovers were entertained by Coriolopsis trogii on poplar, and by Daedalea tricolor on Tuesday 5th took us to Lago di Pontechianale, an fallen oak branches, the latter with a laminate hymenium artificial lake high in the Varaita Valley. Henry Beker like a dark version of Lenzites betulina. Small white happily searched for Hebeloma species in the scrub, patches proved to be a species of Dendrothele, D. and the rest of us were equally happy to pass him our bisporigera only described from the Czech Republic in finds of the same genus. An energetic subgroup climbed 2010. The afternoon took half of us to a prodigious to a large stand of Pinus cembra known as Bosco locality near Venasca, a chestnut farm owned by Luigi dell’Alleve where Suillus tridentinus is familiar. The rest Falco, who not only gave us the run of his woods, but of the party wandered around the lake, through mostly also entertained us with his own wine and food outside larch, sycamore and willow scrub, which yielded quite a his picturesque old farmhouse. It was a perfect foraying range of species, if nothing spectacular. A find of the experience. His sloping groves are cleared of scrub, toothy wood rotting Irpex lacteus reminded Martyn which is then burned in small heaps, so we found Ainsworth that British records of this species are charcoal lovers like Faerberia carbonaria and Peziza spurious, mostly being the ubiquitous Schizopora echinospora in abundance there. The management paradoxa. There seems no good reason why both I. system seems to encourage fruiting – it was hardly lacteus and Peniophora aurantiaca should not be found possible to take a step without crushing something. The in Britain, unless the latter can only live on Alnus viridus variety was immense, Signor Falco himself having and not on A. glutinosus, which seems implausibly recorded more than 300 species, and only a few eye choosy. Tremella foliacea and Steccherinum ochraceum catchers can be mentioned here. Among many found nearby are both familiar from our islands. Larch highlights were a huge Scleroderma looking like a twigs on the ground were covered in Lachnellula stranded starfish, S. geaster (= polyrrhizum), most of the suecica and apparently only that species, rather than species of Cantharellacea from Europe including a tiny the generally commoner L.willkommii. Elsewhere bright orange one, Cantharellus friesii, several Lactarius terrestrially, nice clumps of Geastrum sessile were of the plinthogali group, as well as L. uvidus, and just found, a mixed bunch of small Mycena species, several about all the Amanitas. Cortinarius included splendid familiar coprinoids, Flammulaster granulosa and other specimens of C. purpurascens, the rarely seen C. ‘small brown jobs’. Carol Hobart displayed a fine humicola, and a brightly pale blue C. caerulescens (?)

8 ► and perhaps a dozen others. There were three stipitate Varaita. The pass into France lay above us. The cows hydnoids in perfect condition, including both Phellodon with their bells were already being brought down for and Hydnellum species. This is hardly to mention the winter. The open glades yielded more of the Russula - of which no fewer than nineteen species Hygrophorus, Tricholoma and Leucopaxillus we had were present - and boletes of many kinds, and smaller learned to recognise, although Hygrophorus discoideus and less conspicuous species that did not get the was probably an addition. Russula consobrina and attention they doubtless deserved. All of those Lactarius porninsis were numerous. It was also good to scouring the woods agreed that they had never seen see numbers of the yellow clubs of the ascomycete so many species packed into a small space, and that it Spathularia flavida and the curious pink tremellale would have taken a whole week to determine what was Guepinia helvelloides among the moss. The foray in this locality alone. A perfect day. The remaining made a suitably scenic end to an excellent week. group opted to visit a small, broadleaved coppice plantation to search for truffles – a secret location near Particular thanks go to Steve and Margaret Kelly and Alba which proved prolific. An enthusiastic dog Carol Hobart for handling the BMS end with carefully directed by its owner managed to find seven commendable efficiency. The whole trip would not Tuber magnatum and one Tuber melanosporum in have been possible without the enthusiastic support of about half and hour. Five small additional specimens the A.M.B.A.C.- Cumino, and in particular the three (including T. rufum) were donated for herbarium people mentioned at the beginning of this report. material: four of these are now in China and one Gianfranco Armando smoothed away all local resides in Sheffield. As for the larger specimens, they difficulties. They were unfailingly hospitable hosts in a were probably consumed in short order. beautiful and mycologically prolific area.

The last day was almost bound to be something of an Richard Fortey anticlimax – a return to high altitudes among the larches, at Chienale near the head of the Valley West Weald Fungus Recording Group Agaricus Workshop, 18th July 2010

A BMS Small Grant once again helped the West few robust fruit bodies, fortunately representative Weald Fungus Recording Group to hold an of the major sections. A comprehensive slide annual one-day Workshop for members, with show highlighted taxonomy and major some participants from the Hampshire Group and identification features. Geoff emphasised the elsewhere. importance of examining specimens as soon as possible after collection and making field notes accordingly. Eight important features to check are highlighted as part of a systematic approach to identification. The most important characters are found in the ring and stem base. A microscope is needed for absolute certainty, but good field characters can suffice.

Currently there are about 40 species in the British Checklist, and 70 in mainland Europe; it is expected that the UK total will soon reach 50 species.

We were presented with a bound version of Agaricus impudicus, Great Bookham Surrey. No- vember 2009. Identified E W Brown. Photograph Geoff’s new synoptic key. This is still experimental Ray Tantram © 2009 and comments are welcomed. The key also contains good species descriptions. Agaricus Workshop th On 18 July 2010 Geoffrey Kibby came down to Sincere thanks to Geoffrey for an interesting day, explain and help de-mystify this often perplexing and for helping us to a greater understanding of genus. Sadly the very dry weather had made it the nature of ‘true mushrooms’. impossible for us to collect much fresh material, Ray Tantram 9th. August 2010 but Ted Brown had managed to find and bring a

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BMS Bursary Report

Project Student: Levi Glennie on cell surface proteins influenced adhesion to polycarbonate. Supervisor: Dr Alexandra Brand The results showed that reduced protein Place: School of Medical Sciences, University of glycosylation or the use of rich versus poor pre- Aberdeen culture medium did not significantly affect cell adhesion to polycarbonate. However, 80 % Candida albicans is one of the most prevalent fewer cells adhered in the presence of 20 % fungal pathogens that affects humans. In high- serum compared to RPMI-1640. This was risk patients, systemic infection by C. albicans surprising because serum contains proteins that can lead to mortality rates as high as 40%. are thought to adhere to hydrophobic surfaces Additionally, the formation of C. albicans and provide a base-layer that facilitates cell biofilms on the surface of in-dwelling devices adhesion. Finally, regression analysis showed can compromise the function of the device and a weak but significant inverse correlation seed new infection when cells escape into the between nanotopography size and adhesion, bloodstream. but this was only seen under high-adhesion conditions. The British Mycological Society funded my 10- week summer project in the Aberdeen Fungal This has been a brilliant experience for me. My Group to test whether the patterning of practical and data-handling skills have improved polycarbonate surfaces with different nano- enormously. I have learned how to work as part topographies could affect the levels of adhesion of a lab team and how to plan my time. Learning with C. albicans cells. The approach was part of how to use the SEM was also a great a study to explore the use of nanotopography experience. Most of all, I now have a much as a method of reducing the adhesion of C. better understanding of how to design albicans to synthetic surfaces with a potential experiments and problem-solve. application for use in medical implants. For this project, polycarbonate chips with 3 I would like to thank the British Mycological sizes of nanotopography were provided by Society for giving me the opportunity to do this collaborators at the Centre for Cell Engineering, research and for strengthening my interest in University of Glasgow. Adhesion assays were microbiology. I would also like to thank my performed using these chips with non-patterned supervisor, Dr Alexandra Brand, and her staff, polycarbonate as a control. I also compared the Dr Silvia Wehmeier & Emma Morrison, for effect of varying the overnight and assay culture helping me during the 10 weeks I was working medium because the availability of nutrients is with them. thought to affect the structure of the C. albicans cell surface. In addition, a variety of mutants was tested to see if the lack of specific glycans

Figure 1 : Scanning electron micrograph of C. albicans cells adhered to a polycarbonate surface with nano-pits

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The British Mycological Society Autumn Open Meeting in partnership with the Royal Botanic Gardens Kew Fungi: animal slayers, saviours and socialists

Saturday 26 November 2011 Kew Gardens, Jodrell Lecture Theatre

Join us for an exploration of some of the amazing ways in which fungi interact with animals. We will also have an opportunity to visit Kew Gardens at lunch time.

10:00-10:20 Registration, coffee & tea

10:20-10:30 Lynne Boddy (Cardiff University) Opening comments and welcome

10:30-11:00 Matt Fisher (Imperial College, London) Amphibian extinction by the chytrid Bd

11:00-11:30 Brian Spooner (Kew) Fungi, insects and galls

11:30-12:00 Judy Webb (Dipterists Forum) Mind that maggot: fungal fruit bodies are vital to flies

12:00-12:30 Glenda Orledge (Bath University) Beetles and their basidiomycete hosts

12:30-14:15 Lunch break & time to visit the Gardens

14:15-14:45 Don A’Bear (Cardiff University) Fungal-invertebrate interactions in a changing climate

14:45-15:15 Arthur Callaghan (Staffordshire University) The ecology of Conidiobolus and Basidiobolus

15:15-15:45 Harry Evans (CABI) Fungal slayers of invertebrates: natural control

15:45-16:15 Tariq Butt (Swansea University) Fungal slayers of invertebrates: biological control

16:15-16:45 Coffee & tea

A contribution of £5 will be requested (payable on the day) for tea/coffee and subsidising students. If you would like to access the herbarium or the library, you must make arrangements before the meeting ([email protected]).

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BMS Autumn Foray Shorewell 13th to 21st October 2010

number “new to the island” and this despite the regrettably dry weather which made some of the sites very disappointing.

Of particular interest were several areas of chalk downland where fungi mycorrhizal with Helianthemum were collected. These included Cortinarius cisticola, C. epsomiensis, Lactarius rubrocinctus, Tricholoma hemisulphureum and Amanita malleata. A rather unexciting looking “lbj” turned out to be Marasmiellus carneopallidus - new to Britain. It is only in the last few years that the importance of Helianthemum as a host for mycorrhizal fungi has been recognised and studied.

Autumn Foray Group. Photograph © C Hobart An extensive fruiting of Clathrus ruber in all stages of development in the Ventnor Botanic Garden was This year the Autumn Foray was held from 13th to a rare sight and a great photo opportunity. 21st October on the Isle of Wight. North Court, in Other highlights included the first Isle of Wight the village of Shorewell, in a splendid Jacobean record of Physalacria cryptomeriae on Cryptomeria manor house which has been restored and japonica leaves that was found in the grounds of modernised to provide very comfortable North Court itself. There are only 6 UK records for accommodation. The spacious workroom was this small basidiomycete. It was also found at originally the ballroom. Breakfasts and packed Parkhurst Forest and is possibly not uncommon as lunches were supplied on site and the evening there are now two sites known in Hampshire as meal was taken at the local pub, only a few well. minutes walk away through the North Court gardens, the return journey being by torchlight. We Three Hemimycenas were found, H. cephalatricha, were well looked after by the owners, John and H. tortuosa and H. mauritanica and a visit to the Christine Harrison who were very interested in our only British site for Amanita ovoidea revealed a activity and went to great trouble to make us number of dried up old fruitbodies and two beautiful welcome. The gardens are magnificent and we fresh ones just emerging from the ground. were treated to a tour and a talk by the owner who doubles as head gardener. The BMS does not usually look on these annual forays as an opportunity for collecting and About 18 people attended the foray, somewhat consuming edible fungi but on this occasion some fewer than in other years, maybe because it was species such as Boletus edulis, Hydnum repandum so soon after the end of the BMS Overseas Foray and Macrolepiota procera were found in such in Italy. abundance that it would have been a pity not to collect enough to supplement and enhance the The Isle of Wight has a good variety of habitats excellent cooked breakfasts we enjoyed. within a small area and we were lucky to have the help of Colin Pope, chief ecology officer for the Isle Thanks are due to Jacquey and Roger Newton of Wight council, who accompanied us and gave who organised the foray with great efficiency and useful information about some of the sites visited. attention to detail, their first attempt, but most The fungi of the Isle of Wight has been recorded to successful. Thanks also to John and Christine some extent since 1919 by the Isle of Wight Harrison, our hosts who went to endless trouble to Natural History and Archaeology Society and for be welcoming and helpful and last but not least to some years an annual foray was lead by Derek Carol Hobart, BMS Foray Secretary, not only for all Reid, former head of Mycology at Royal Botanic the administrative work involved but also for Gardens, Kew. However it is not surprising that a keeping the foray supplied with cake and biscuits party of this size, foraying intensively every day for for consumption with cups of tea on return from a week, added a considerable number of records forays. (1090 records of 508 species) including quite a Anne Andrews 12 Obituary

Fungus Group in 1985. Under Jack’s guidance, the Dr. J.V.R. (Jack) Marriott group developed over the years and liaised extensively with other local wildlife organisations such 1921 - 2010 as the Forestry Commission, the Gloucester Naturalists Society and the Gloucestershire Wildlife Trust. Today, the group’s relations with those organisations are as strong as ever.

Jack first joined the British Mycological Society (BMS) in 1977 where he took a keen interest in running the Field Mycology activities of the Society. He then served on BMS Council from 1991 to 1996 and during this period saw the need for and set up a National network of groups to represent the needs of field mycologists and promote field mycology in Britain. Jack became the first National Coordinator of this network in 1992 and instigated the annual meetings of group leaders which are still regularly held. These immediately became a melting pot for many key ideas such as the formation of BMS journal ‘Field Mycology’ and the Waxcap-grassland Survey.

Sadly, on the 19th December 2010, Dr. J.V.R. Marriott Jack had the honour to become Vice President of the died in Worcester Hospital following a stroke at his Society in its centenary year 1996 when he was also home in Leigh, between Malvern and Worcester. He awarded the Benefactors Medal for his services was 89. His passion for mycology was an inspiration mycology. He organised a number of national as well to many of us and had a profound influence on raising as local workshops to improve identification skills. the stature of field mycology in Britain. This culminated in his organising the BMS Hereford Centenary Spring foray and the hugely successful Born in France to English parents in May 1921, Jack Grand Centenary Exhibition held in London which he attended bi-lingual school in Paris which was to serve co-organised with Dr Henry Tribe and where he was him well in later life. Following the German invasion particularly proud of bringing together the ‘Fungi in of France in 1940, the family returned to England by Art’ display. He also wrote many articles for the field way of Bordeaux and settled in Coventry. Sponsored mycologist including stand alone guides for beginners by the chemicals company ICI, Jack enrolled at to mycology, on using a microscope and on recording Birmingham University to study chemistry. During his fungi. He began and was editor of Associates studies as part of the war effort, he joined his brother Newsletter from 1993-6 and also the series of Tony at Radford Hall Farm. It was here that he met identification guides known as KEYS still in use today. Pat, they were married in1944 and went on to have two sons and a daughter. In October 2004, Jack and the group organised its first two day exhibition of the fungi of the Forest of After completing his PhD, Jack worked at ICI in Dean held at the Dean Heritage Centre. The event Manchester for several years before landing the job of was a resounding success and has been repeated Chief Research Chemist at Courtaulds, the English every year since to the growing interest of the public. Chemical and Fibre Company in Calais. On returning Jack continued as chairman of the group until his to the UK, Jack took up a senior post with Abbot retirement from active foraying in 2005. However, he Laboratories and the family settled in Kent. It was maintained an academic involvement in field here in 1970 that Jack developed a growing interest mycology through the publication of numerous in fungi and field mycology. His scientific mind was identification keys for a range of fungal species. He ideally suited to the subject particularly with respect to would have been a staunch supporter of the “Hands the importance of detailed and accurate records. off our Forest” campaign had he been alive today.

In 1984 Jack retired and he and Pat moved to Wherever field mycologists gather for whatever Oldcroft in the Forest of Dean. Jack very soon reason, someone will always say with great pride and realised that this area was extremely rich and diverse affection – “Oh yes, I knew Jack Marriott”. in its population of fungi. Following one of his talks at the Dean Heritage Centre, along with a group of like- Contributed by Keith Davies, Shelley Evans and Ted Blackwell minded amateur mycologists, he formed the Dean

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Field Meeting 2011

Autumn Field Meeting: Exeter

10th September - 17th September 2011 eat in nearby Lopes Hall and have a workroom in the Local Organiser: Dr David Farley old dining room in Hope Hall. This campus is set in Guest Tutor: Dr Peter Roberts 300 acres of woodland and landscaped gardens and is recognised as probably the most beautiful and The autumn meeting will be based in Exeter alongside interesting botanical garden of any British University. the BMS scientific meeting. Autumn Forays have been held in Exeter in 1901, 1947 and 1978 so this will Accommodation has been provisionally booked for 30 be an opportunity to revisit some of the previously individuals and participants have the option of shared recorded sites and compare data. or single rooms all are ensuite and are serviced daily (the university can accommodate additional bookings). Devon supports an outstandingly rich and varied Options will be available to join the Scientific meeting natural environment due in part to the relatively for the main dinner and it is hoped that this meeting unpolluted atmosphere, mild climate and the varied will provide the opportunity for both sectors of the geology. This combination provides ideal and rare society to meet socially and participate in our conditions in which a diverse range of plant and respective meetings. animal species can thrive. Habitat distribution and character varies hugely across the County. The Cost: £380 single en suite with breakfast and 3 nearby upland National Park, Dartmoor, has large course evening meal. (£20 discount for BMS areas of heath, bog and mire, acidic grassland and members) steep river valley slopes blanketed in oak woodland. Local sites bordering the Exe are damp and even in Workroom and/or Forays (without accommodation) early September have the potential to yield good £70.00 (£20 discount for BMS members) mycological data. Chemicals will be available.

Accommodation will be at the University of Exeter on the Streatham Campus in Pennsylvania Court. We will BMS supporting the Groups in The Forest of Dean Starting To Identify Fungi Workshop, and Identifying Fungi with the Aid of a Microscope

The Forest of Dean house in Parkend which is situated in the centre of the forest enabling many sites to be within walking Starting To Identify Fungi: distance of the workrooms. There will be sufficient Sat 24th Sept – Tues 27th Sept 2011 (3 nights) space for up to 9 places in the workroom ensuring individual attention and help for those requiring Identifying fungi with the aid of a microscope: assistance with microscope technique. Weds 28th - Sat 1st Oct 2011 (3 nights) Prices are based on shared ensuite 4* The Forest of Dean has been the site of mycological accommodation in 1 Hazledene, Parkend with the interest for many years and has seen several garden room used as a lab. This workshop is workshops but none specifically for beginners who are designed for beginner and intermediate level and will members of our Local Groups Network. be led by Carol Hobart and Derek Schafer.

The "Starting to identify fungi workshop" will focus The cost of each workshop is £100, which includes on macroscopic features, sorting out genera and an shared ensuite, B&B + packed lunch and coffees introduction to the benefits of using the microscope for (evening meal taken in local pub at extra cost). better identification to species level. Offsite Singles might be possible at approx £145. "Identifying fungi with the aid of a microscope" will focus on more advanced identification skills, use of A Full week (both workshops) in 1 Hazledene is specialist keys and microscopic technique. The possible but there is no tutored session during the turn workshop will be arranged as a low key affair and will around period priced @ £230. have two tutors. The workroom will be based in a

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Field Meeting 2011

Dune/Nutrient Deficient Grassland Workshop: Snowdonia National Park Centre, Plas Tan y Bwlch, North Wales

7th October - 14th October 2011 National Park Centre, Plas Tan y Bwlch, N. Wales Strandline, foredune and mobile dune Organiser: Carol Hobart communities. Event Tutor: Dr Eef Arnolds Semi-fixed/fixed dune grassland communities. Dune slack/mire communities. The upland meeting will be based in the Snowdonia Heathland and dune heath communities. National Park Centre at Plas Tan y Bwlch, North Nutrient deficient grasslands. Wales. Following the successful Inocybe workshop in 2009 and many requests to continue work on this Accommodation has been provisionally booked for 30 genus, it has been decided to use this week to study individuals and participants have the option of shared the Dune and Grassland flora of the North Wales or single rooms. coast. This will enable further study of Inocybe as well as allowing us the opportunity to look in detail at the This event is being supported by the Kew waxcap extensive mycological flora that exists within the project team who will be attending this event along diverse nutrient deficient grassland and sand dune with Danish expert Dr David Boertmann. habitats. It is expected that this week will contribute

The dune systems of Anglesey (Abermenai - substantially to the wax cap project as well as Aberfraw SSSI), Morfa Harlech and Morfa Dyffryn providing an impetus to the recording of the UK Dune SAC and Ynyslas, within the Dyffi Unesco Biosphere systems. Reserve, are all within a relatively short drive of Maentwrog (Plas Tan y Bwlch). Visits to these sites Cost* £486 standard room, £539 ensuite room are likely to be interspersed with shorter trips in the (£20 discount for BMS members) locality of the centre. These national and international Chemicals will be available. reserves offer opportunities to record:

Overseas Foray: Semiramis Hotel, Platres, Cyprus

16th November - 25th November 2011 understanding of its mycobiota. It will be the first visit Semiramis Hotel, Platres, Cyprus to Cyprus by the BMS. Local Organiser: Michael Loizides The Semiramis Hotel can accommodate 20 people in The foray will be hotel based in Platres in the Troodos shared accommodation but there are a number of mountains. The Cyprus Mediterranean Forests of other more expensive local hotels in this winter ski High mountain ranges and low plains, include a wide resort that can be booked if numbers exceed our range of habitats. Oak, Strawberry, Juniper, and expectations (Forest Park Hotel being one). It is Cypress trees thrive at lower elevations. Coastal hoped that there will be a number of local mycologists areas, river basins and exposed hill tops are covered joining us. The local foray organiser will be Michael with Helianthemum and Cistus and other shrub-like Loizides the secretary of the CMA. vegetation. The driest areas of these also include wild There are regular flights from the UK (Manchester, olives and carob trees. Acres of mountain pine forests Luton, Gatwick & Bristol) and driving is on the same and juniper woodlands cover the mountain summits. side of the road as the UK.

Until recently relatively little fungal recording has been Costs are likely to be approx £600 - £700 inc done on the Island. Nattrass recorded 37 species in flights. 1937 and these were the only records until Deryck Viney in his larger Fungi of North Cyprus published in It is envisaged that the BMS will book the hotel for 2005 described about 200 species. delegates who will pay for their own accommodation and travel costs. In 2007 the Cyprus Mycological Association (CMA) was set up and they have subsequently identified well Cost £70.00 inc additional BMS costs such as over 800 species. This active, newly formed group workroom, local foray organiser etc, (£20 discount for are keen that we should visit the Island to extend their BMS members).

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The programme of events organised by the Field NOTES ON EVENTS Mycology & Conservation (FMC) committee appear on the Society’s website www.britmycolsoc.org.uk Workshops are usually held over a weekend, are along with a booking form which can be downloaded mainly indoors and combine lectures and from the website. There is a £20 non-refundable examination of prepared material from the workshop booking fee per person per event which should be tutor, with individual study using both fresh and sent to the Foray Manager with a completed booking herbarium fungal specimens as appropriate. A form for each participant. For some events it is microscope is essential. In some cases, some possible to attend on a part time basis or to be non- outdoor foray activity may be part of the workshop. resident. There will still be a fee for workroom space, Numbers are limited, usually to around 25 administration and tutoring costs. The Society participants, and the courses are generally fully welcomes non-members to its events but anyone booked. with a keen interest in field mycology can become a member of the Society. (Benefits of joining the BMS Residential Forays have a long tradition extending include reduced costs of attending field meetings, back to the 19th Century and provide an opportunity subsidised costs of Field Mycology and the increased for participants to study the fungi of a particular area. opportunities to interact with mycological experts and The days will include a programme of field outings to to participate in conservation and education outreach collect material to study after returning to the activities). BMS members and accompanying non workroom, where investigations often continue late participants are entitled to a £20 reduction for each into the evening or the early morning! Although there event. is only a limited programme of formal lectures, if any, the forays provide an opportunity for exchange of At least six weeks before the event (depending on knowledge on current developments in taxonomy the conditions imposed by the venue chosen), the and conservation, and an intensive learning organiser will ask for payment in full. If you do not environment for those with a serious interest (though pay this, then your place will be forfeited. Nearer the not necessarily extensive expertise) in fungal event and after full payment, refunds will need to be identification. The records of fungi made during BMS negotiated with the organiser, who may be able to forays are added to the Fungal Records Database of find a substitute; otherwise a refund may not be Britain and Ireland which is then made accessible possible. Participants should consider travel through the online NBN gateway. As part of this insurance to cover late cancellation. recording activity, forays also provide an opportunity to add herbarium specimens to the National The Foray Manager will send your booking details to collections and the active participation by members the organisers of each event. Your booking will be of the Kew Mycology Department, as well as other acknowledged by email. If you do not have an email herbaria, is a welcome part of the events. The please enclose a stamped, addressed envelope if evening round-up sessions, in which the outstanding you require acknowledgement. Please bear in mind finds of the day are viewed and discussed, conclude that some events have a limited number of places each day’s activities. and may become fully booked quite early. First time participants to a BMS event - The The form also allows you to indicate your Society is keen to encourage new participants with preferences for accommodation in more detail. The an interest in fungi to extend their expertise and available accommodation varies with the venue and, participate in its forays and workshops, including field while we would like to try to meet everyone's mycologists in affiliated local groups throughout the individual needs as far as possible, this may not British Isles. The organisers provide help and always be possible. Additional charges will usually encouragement to new or less experienced apply, for example single rooms or ensuite facilities attendees and are happy to be approached to when they are available. Please contact the Foray discuss your particular needs. The organisers are Manager with any queries. keen to foster a friendly atmosphere to make it possible for all participants whatever their level of The BMS small grant scheme is open to students expertise to experience a friendly, informative and attending any field meeting and if you are eligible and enjoyable event. would like to apply please contact the Foray Manager.

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FUNGAL DEVELOPMENT AND PATHOGENESIS

School of Biosciences, University of Exeter

Tuesday 13th September, 2011 - Friday 16th September, 2011

Meeting Chairs: Mark Ramsdale, Nick Talbot

Advisory Committee: Steve Aves, Steve Bates, Tom Richards, Darren Soanes, Gero Steinberg, Chris Thornton

Why Exeter? The City of Exeter, at the heart of Devon has something for everyone, whether your tastes are for exploring the delights of city life or enjoying the countryside. With a population of about 110,000, Exeter is a friendly city which happily combines modern life with a sense of the past. Cafes, restaurants, pubs and modern shops mix easily with historic buildings, including the Cathedral, the ancient Guildhall which is the oldest civic working building in the country, Mol's Coffee House and the Ship Inn (both favourite haunts of Francis Drake and Walter Raleigh). The excellent selection of funky bars, cafes and restaurants also makes Exeter a vibrant place to be after dark. Exeter University's Streatham Campus is widely acknowledged as one of the most beautiful in the UK and is built around a former botanic garden, an ideal setting for the School of Biosciences. Exeter Biosciences houses a number of fungal biology groups with research interests ranging from basic cell biology, host-fungal interactions to community structure. The department has a long association with the Society and will provide a great setting for the meeting.

Travel Arrangements to Exeter The University campus is ideally situated for all travel links, whether they are by road, rail or air:

Exeter International Airport: 6 miles M5 motorway link: 4 miles Exeter St David's rail station: 2 miles

Accommodation: Holland Hall can accommodate up to 400 guests in en suite bedroom facilities just five minutes walk away from the lecture theatres

Meals Lunches: Holland Hall The venue enjoys sweeping views across the Exe estuary in its panoramic glass restaurant. Holland Hall can accommodate 360 guests in its restaurant. The glass fronted split-level mezzanine bar is perfect for a drinks reception.

Dinners: Reed Hall, Holland Hall, Venue TBA Enjoy eating in the splendour of our majestic Italianate Mansion, Reed Hall, set within beautifully landscaped gardens, complete with Koi carp lake. Large opening doors, leading directly into the gardens, add an extra special dimension to all summer celebrations. For the evening, the centre of the room is cleared to reveal an excellent dance floor, where guests can dance the night away. The University's Refresh dining room, Gallery Restaurant and Balcony Bar are centrally located beside the Great Hall Complex and can be used in conjunction with the Great Hall or independently, providing a range of dining options. The Refresh dining room can accommodate up to 300 guests while the Gallery Restaurant and Balcony Bar are suitable for smaller, more intimate, occasions.

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Jack Marriott Memorial Foray Saturday 24th September 2011 Venue : Speech House (North) SO623125, The Forest of Dean

In memory of Jack Marriott a Memorial Foray is Beechenhirst Lodge. There is a pay and being hosted by the Dean Fungus Group. display car park there or you can walk down from the public Speech House car park in about All those wishing to pay their respects will be 10 minutes. Beechenhurst Lodge is run by warmly welcomed. Forestry Commission

Saturday 24th September 2011 http://www.forestry.gov.uk/website/ Venue : Speech House (North) SO623125 recreation.nsf/LUWebDocsByKey/ EnglandGloucestershireNoForestForestOfDean You can park opposite and slightly to the east of BeechenhurstLodge Speech House in a car park. Co-ordinates are approximately 51.80655 -2.55243, nearest After lunch we can foray in the area adjacent to postcode: GL16 7EL (Speech House Hotel) off the picnic site or any other part of the forest. the B4226 Coleford to Cinderford road to the west of Littledean. Please let Keith Davies know if you are likely to attend so they have an idea of numbers Foray will start moving off at 10.30 am. attending. He can also supply further details if necessary, email [email protected] Bring a picnic lunch which we will have at the Beechenhurst picnic site to the north of

British Mycological Society CityView House Union Street Ardwick Manchester M12 4JD MycologistNews email: [email protected] Tel: +44 (0) 161 277 7638 / 7639 BMS Website Fax: +44 (0) 161 277 7634 www.britmycolsoc.org.uk

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