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THE ESSEX NATURALIST.
Council), and Mr. C. Bestow (on the motion of Mr. Hugh Main, seconded
by Mr. J. Ross), were duly elected.
The Members of the Cole Pension Committee (viz., the President, Messrs.
Avery, Christy, Whitaker, and Thompson) were, on the motion of Mr.
Nicholson, seconded by Mr. Brand, re-appointed for the year 1919-20.
The President then delivered her Presidential Address, "On Some
Water-Plants," illustrating her remarks by lantern photographs and
sketches, and by the exhibition of many herbarium-specimens and drawings
executed by herself.
Mr. Whitaker moved that the President be requested to allow her
Address to be printed in the Club's journal; Mr. Avery seconded, and, on
being put to the Meeting, the resolution was carried by acclamation.
The proceedings then terminated.
MYCETOZOA FOUND DURING THE FUNGUS AND
CRYPTOGAMIC FORAYS IN EPPING FOREST,
19th OCTOBER AND 9th NOVEMBER 1918
The route taken for the Fungus Foray led from Buckhurst Hill, through
Lord's Bushes, down to Connaught Water and the Chingford Forest,
and thence by Fairmead to High Beach. Lord's Bushes, with its fine
varied woodland, of oak, beech, hornbeam, holly, and birch, on a sub-
soil of gravels and clay, proved the richest hunting ground; the uni-
form clay of the Chingford Forest yielded (as far as our rapid search
extended) far less variety. The weather was brilliant after heavy rain
on the preceding night, which had probably washed away or injured
some of the more fragile species of Mycetozoa.
Twenty species were collected by the efforts of many searchers.
Mr. J. Ross, by an early start, had been able to make a considerable
collection before the main party assembled.
The most striking specimens obtained were Badhamia utricularis,
streaming in orange-yellow plasmodium over leathery fungi on prostrate
logs; Diderma floriforme, found in perfect condition, with pearly-grey
unexpanded sporangia, on a fragment of wood, knocked off (probably
by deer) from an old oak trunk on which the species had appeared a
year previously; Dictydiaethalium plumbeum, forming conspicuous
red and clay-coloured cakes on an old log; and Arcyria ferruginea,
usually an autumn species, and found in an immature stage only,
when the serried ranks of club-shaped sporangia were still pale rose-coloured.
The following is a list of the species noted:—
Badhamia utricularis (Bull.) Berk.
Physarum nutans Pers., subsp. leucophaeum.
Fuligo septica (L.) Gmel.—Old and weathered.
Craterium minutum (Leers.) Fries.
*Diderma floriforme (Bull.) Pers.
Didymium nigripes Fr.
Stemonitis fusca Roth.—In white plasmodium only.
*Comatricha typhoides (Bull.) Rost.
C. pulchella (Bab.) Rost.
Dictydiaethalium plumbeum (Schum.) Rost.