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*Trichia scabra Rost.
T. persimilis Karst.
T. varia Pers.
T. decipiens (Pers.) Macbr.
T. Botrytis Pers.
Arcyria ferruginea Saut.
A. denudata (L.) Sheldon.
A. incarnata Pers.
A. pomiformis (Leers) Rost.
*A. nutans (Bull.) Grev.
The Cryptogamic Foray was held on 9th November, a day of bright
sunshine, following a frosty night. Speaking generally, the party did
not stray far from the road leading from Theydon Bois station, past
the Wake Arms, to High Beach, though many small excursions were
made into the woodland, by those in search of Mycetozoa, to investi-
gate leaf-heaps and prostrate logs. Nineteen species were found, most
of them the same as those recorded three weeks before during the Fungus
Foray. Those marked with an asterisk in the preceding list were not
observed, while fresh additions were Leocarpus fragilis (Dicks.) Rost.,
Didymium squamulosum (Alb. & Schw.) Fries., and Colloderma oculatum
(Lipp.) G. Lister. The last species was found, not on the moist bark of
living or felled trees amongst liverworts, where it has often been ob-
tained, but on open peaty ground amongst moss (Campylopus pyriformis)
and lichen (Cladonia digitata). The minute sporangia were immature
and white; on being brought indoors and kept moist, they ripened per-
fectly. The gelatinous envelope, which in this species surrounds the
membranous sporangium-wall, seems, while it is moist and plump, to
afford an effective protection against the attacks of mould or insects.
Sporangia kept wet for two months under a bell-jar were still in perfect
condition. Others, which had been allowed to dry, and were later exposed
to moist air, became covered with mould.
SOME ESSEX PLANT RECORDS.
BY W. G. CLARKE.
DURING the summer of 1918, I made a detailed study of
the fauna and flora of Little Warley Common; and,
in addition, I noted the following plants in the other localities
named in the vicinity:—
Ranunculus auricomus, Doddinghurst; R. arvensis, Bulphan;
Isatis tinctoria, Shenfield; Moenchia erecta, Ingrave, Little
Warley; Claytonia perfoliata, Shenfield; Hypericum hirsutum,
Langdon Hills; Malva moschata, Little Warley; Ulex gallii,
Little Warley, Upminster; Trifolium ochroleucon, Little Wal-
tham; Lathyrus nissolia, Upminster; Pyrus aria, Shenfield;
Caucalis nodosa, East Horndon; Galium triconie, East Horndon;