THE ESSEX FIELD CLUB. 219
entrance to the forest nearest Bishop's Stortford. The weather was simply
delightful, sunny and balmy, the very perfection of autumnal days.1 Unfortu-
nately the season was, from some cause, a most unfavourable one for Fungi, even
more so than the preceding two years, and the (usually) commonest kinds
were conspicuously absent. But every effort was made during the two days to
make up a good basket, and about twenty-five species, large and small, were
added to the Essex flora :—
FUNGI, NEW TO ESSEX, GATHERED IN HATFIELD FOREST.
Agaricus [Clitocybe) geotropus, Bull.
,, ,, opacus, Fr.
„ (Collybia) rancidus, Fr.
,, (Mycena) tenerrimus, B.
„ (Pluteus) chrysophaeus, Fr.
,, (Hebeloma) nauseosus, Cooke.
,, (Psilocybe) coprophilus, Bull.
Coprinus fimetarius, Fr.
Cortinarius (Hydr.) acutus, Fr.
Gomphidius viscidus, Fr.
Marasmius calopus, Fr.
Corticium sambuci, Fr.
,, calceum, Pers.
Boletus granulatus, Fr.
Hirneola auricula-judaae, Fr.
Puccinia glechomatis, D.C.
Darluca filum, Cast.
Hypomyces rosellus, A. and S.
Erysiphe umbelliferarum, Lev. (on
Angelica).
Hymenoscypha tuba, Fr.
„ fructigena, Bull.
„ Cyathoidea, Bull.
Helotium claro-flavum, Grev.
Dascypha cerina, Pers.
„ sulphurea, Pers.
In addition to the above species, new to our Essex lists, many fungi, already
known as natives of Epping Forest, or elsewhere in the county, were gathered,
and the list is printed here as a first contribution towards a mycological flora of
Hatfield Forest. It may be confidently predicted that when a few more explora-
tions, in favourable seasons, have been made, the list will be very largely
extended, the locality appearing to be an excellent one, and likely to prove
extremely prolific :—
FUNGI COLLECTED IN HATFIELD FOREST (PRELIMINARY LIST.)
(In addition to the species new to Essex, recorded above.)
Agaricus (Lepiota) cristatus, Fr.
A. (Tricholoma) umbricatus, Fr.
A. (Tricholoma) terreus, Fr.
A. (Clitocybe) laccatus, Scop.
A. (Collybia) velutipes, Curt.
A. (Collybia) fusipes, Bull.
A. (Mycena) haematopus, Fr.
A. „ ammoniacus, Fr.
A. „ epipterygius, Fr.
A. „ filopes, Bull.
A. „ purus, Fr.
A. „ amictus, Fr.
A. (Mycena) gypseus, Fr.
A. „ lacteus, B.
A. (Pleurotus) dryinus, Fr.
A. (Omphalia) griseus, Fr.
A. (Pluteus) cervinus, Schoeff.
A. (Pholiota) spectabilis, Fr.
A. (Hebeloma) sinapizans, Fr.
A, (Inocybe) rimosus, Bull.
A. (Flammula) flavidus, Schoeff.
A. (Naucoria) melinoides, Fr.
A. (Stropharia) semiglobatus, Batsch.
A. (Stropharia) inunctus, Fras.
1 The weather was very brilliant in all parts of England, and the temperature high for
the season. In London, on the Saturday and Sunday, the thermometer in the shade registered
nearly seventy degrees, and there have not been two consecutive days as warm so late in the
autumn during the last twenty years. The nights were very clear as well as the days, and the
range of temperature was consequently great. In London the range was as much as thirty-
three degrees.