THE ESSEX FIELD CLUB.
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Fuligo septica Gml. T. scabra Rost.
Stemonitis fusca Ehreub. T. varia Pers.
Comantricha obtusata Preuss. T. fallax Pers.
C. typoides Rost. Arcyria punicea Pers.
Owing apparently to the dry season, none of the species that often
abound in the forest on dead leaves are in our list. Of the thirteen species
that were found, all were on dead wood, within which they had been
feeding in the plasmodium stage ; with the exception of Badhamia utri-
cularis, whose food consists of living fungi such as Stireum hirsutum or
Corticium.
The number of Mycetozoa that do injury to living plants is, as far as we
at present know, extremely small. I mention this as I happen to have just
noticed in the Report of the Fungus Foray for 1908, in Essex Nat., XV.,
p. 284, a rather misleading account of Mr. Massee's address, which
might lead the casual reader to infer that an immense amount of
damage was done by these organisms, whereas it is the true fungi, the
microscopic rusts and cankers, not the Mycetozoa, that Mr. Massee tells
us are responsible for so much mischief.
Votes of thanks were passed by the Meeting to both our Conductors,
by acclamation.
Mr. Barter took the opportunity of expressing the thanks of the School
Nature Study Union for the invitation which had been extended to the
Members of his Society ; and the formal proceedings terminated, the
meeting resolving itself into a conversazione to examine and discuss the
specimens displayed on the tables ; while Miss Lister exhibited some of
her particular pets under the microscope to an interested circle.
THE 289th ORDINARY MEETING.
Saturday, 29TH October 1910.
This meeting was held as usual in the Physical Lecture Theatre, West
Ham Technical Institute, at 6 p.m., the President, Mr. T. S. Dymond,
F.I.C., in the chair.
New Members.—Mr. Edward Hardingham, The Church House, Kelvedon
Hatch.
Mr. Arthur H. Craig, B.Sc., 102, Hazelville Road, Hornsey Lanc, N.
Exhibits.—Specimens of hard Calcareous Sandstone, blasted from
the bed of Harwich Harbour, were exhibited by Mr. Dalton, who stated
that he had received the specimens from Mr. Percy Thompson. [See
paper read, 28th January 1911.]
Mr. Warren exhibited a mass of Annelid tubes, composed of agglu-
tinated sand-grains, from the shore at Walton-on-Naze. These are pro-
bably the tubes of Sabellaria spinulosa and are locally known by the
fishermen under the term "ross."
Mr. Thompson exhibited a fruiting specimen of the Moss, Leucobryum
glaucum, on behalf of Mrs. Thomspon, who had found the specimens in
Monkwood, Epping Forest, two days before. He remarked on the extreme-
ly rare occurrence of this moss in fruit, it having never previously been
recorded in that condition from Epping Forest.