THE ESSEX FIELD CLUB.
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Craterium minutum (Leers) Fr. A few sporangia only.
Didymium nigripes Fries. A single patch of grey sclerotium was found.
The sporangia in wet seasons are often in vast abundance on dead holly
leaves in the forest.
Stemonitis fusca. Roth. Weathered sporangia only.
S. fusca var. confluens Lister. A fine specimen of this curious confluent:
form was obtained.
S. ferruginea. Ehrenb. Not common in the forest: one group of
sporangia was collected.
Comatricha nigra (Pers.) Schroet. Weathered sporangia only found.
C. typhoides (Bull.) Rost. In perfect condition on decayed wood.
Cribraria vulgaris Schrad. var. aurantiaca Meylan on dead oak:
this and the succeeding species usually favour coniferous wood.
Dictydium cancellatum (Batsch) Macbr. on dead oak; not common in
the forest.
Reticularia Lycoperdon Bull. Two aethalia were found, one immature
and cream coloured, the other rusty brown and mature.
Lycogala epidendrum (L.). Fries. One weathered aethalium only
found. The last two species abound in summer, but are infrequent in
autumn.
Trichia affinis De Bary. One group of pale yellow sporangia was
obtained.
T. scabra Rost. Fine developments of this handsome species were
collected on dead wood; the sporangia while still moist are shining olive-
brown in colour; when dry, the walls rupture and the rich orange spores
are exposed.
X. varia Pers. This also was found in abundance, both in its opaque
white immature stage and mature ochraceous condition.
T. decipiens (Pers.) Macbr. Two unripe sporangia only were found.
T. Botrytis Pers. Several sporangia were obtained on dead wood with
Dictydium cancellatum.
Arcyria incarnata Pers. One group of sporangia.
A. denudata (L.) Wettst. This beautiful crimson species was found
on several old stumps.
A. pomiformis (Leers.) Rost. The scattered buff sporangia were seen
on fallen oak boughs.
A. nutans. (Bull.) Grev. One gathering only was obtained.
Perichaena corticalis (Batsch) Rost. This was found in great abundance
on an old poplar log resting among wet grass and rushes. The plasmodium
had in some places crept away from the wood and matured on the grass
blades, an unusual habitat for this species.
Badger at Laindon Common.—At the Meet of the Essex
Union Hounds at Hutton on October 18th, the hounds, working
towards home, drew Frith Wood, Laindon Common, where
they found and killed a badger weighing 30 lbs., the second
one this cubbing season.—Essex County Chronicle, 24 October,
1919.
J