260 THE ESSEX NATURALIST.
FUNGUS FORAY IN EPPING FOREST (520th MEETING).
Saturday, i6th October, 1920.
The Club's annual Fungus Foray has grown to be one of the important
scientific functions of the year, and this year's meeting was no less success-
ful than its predecessors, at least 140 Members and friends attending. As
on former occasions, representatives of other Societies were present by
invitation of the Club.
The route chosen for the morning party was from Chingford to High-
beach, and proved to be justified by the excellent yield of specimens.
Assembling at Chingford station at 11.4 o'clock, the party crossed Ching-
ford Plain and entered the woodlands, soon breaking up into smaller
groups, following one or other of the several Conductors, according as
their interests lay with the larger fungi or with the "myxies." The
referees, who soon had their hands full in dealing with the specimens
brought to them for identification, were :—
For the Basidiomycetes and Ascomycetes : Miss A. Lorrain Smith,
F.L.S., Mr. J. Ramsbottom, F.L.S., Mr. F. G. Gould, and Mr. Arthur
A. Pearson, F.L.S.
For the Myxomycetes : Miss Gulielma Lister, F.L.S.
The afternoon party assembled at Loughton station at 2.37 o'clock,
and made its way by a shorter route to the Headquarters, the Roserville
Retreat at Highbeach, collecting en route. At the Headquarters the
specimens collected were arranged by the referees on long tables and duly
named, and made a fine display.
Tea was taken shortly after 5 o'clock, following which a short meeting.
(the 520th) was held, with the President, Mr. R. Paulson, F.L.S., F.R.M.S.,
in the chair. The following ladies were duly elected members of the Club:—
Mrs. Lilian M. Hicks, of Runsell Green, Danbury,
Miss Margaret M. Gemmell, of 10, Hampton Road, Forest Gate, E.7,
and nine candidates were nominated for election.
The President referred to the presence with the party of our dis-
tinguished Honorary Member, Dr. A. Smith Woodward, President of the
Linnean Society, and welcomed in the name of the Club the members of
other societies present. He then called in turn upon our Referees for
their reports on the day's finds.
Miss Lister reported that no fewer than 29 forms of Myxomycetes.
had been found during the foray, and mentioned as of especial interest
and rarity in the Forest, Cribraria vulgaris and Stemonitis splendens. The
full list recorded is as follows :—
Badhamia utricularis. D. nigripes
Physarum nutans. Stemonitis fusca.
„ ,, var. robustum. S. ferruginea.
P. viride. S. splendens var. flaccida.
P. vernum var. iridescens. Comatricha nigra.
Fuligo septica. C. typhoides.
Craterium minutum. C. pulchella.
Leocarpus fragilis. Lamproderma scintillans.
Diderma effusum. Cribraria vulgaris (=aurantiaca).
Didymium squamulosum. Diclydiaethalium plumbeum.