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We have then in this assemblage of sea-side plants, or
"halophytes," as the physiologist terms then, of widely differing
kinship, a response to the nature of their environment, producing
structural modification in more than one direction, though for
the same physiological purpose.
[At the delivery of the above address in response to remarks
by Prof. Meldola, Mr. Boulger added that :—
He quite recognised the important bearing that the
subject to which he had directed attention had upon the much
debated questions of the direct action of the environment and
the inheritance of acquired characters. He was afraid that
botanists could not feel themselves in a position to decide these
questions at present. Experiment—long continued experiment
—was necessary ; but, though, perhaps, all the facts to which he
had alluded that day might be explicable by special adaptation
of each individual and the elimination of the unadapted by
natural selection, he thought it possible, if not probable, that,
after many generations of such influence, adaptational characters
might become fixed, so as to be inherited without liability to loss
by reversion.
EPPING FOREST FUNGI: REPORTS ON THE
SPECIES OBSERVED AT THE FUNGUS
FORAY ON OCTOBER, 12th, 1901.
[As on previous occasions, Dr. Cooke and Mr. Massee kindly
undertook to determine the more interesting species gathered,
and their reports follow. Attention should also be called to Mr.
Massee's note on the new Amanita in the present part of the
Essex Naturalist.]
NOTES ON THE LARGER FUNGI OBSERVED.
By M. C. COOKE, M.A., LL.D., A.L.S., &c.
I found an Agaric at High Beach eleven years ago (1880)
and could not satisfy myself at the time of its name and situation.
Looking over my drawings, which have not been published, I
find this species, and now I am able to place it as follows :—
Collybia pulla, Schoeff t., 250. Bolton t., 15.
Pileus fleshy, thin, campanulate then expanded, obtuse,
even, smooth, hygrophanous ; stem usually hollow, twisted,