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Trichia persimilis. A. incarnata.
T. varia. A. cinerea.
T. decipiens. A. pomiformis.
T. Botrytis. A. nutans.
Arcyria denudata.
Mr. Ramsbottom, who followed, described the sclerotia of fungi, and
spoke of the audible hissing sound made by the ejection of the spores of
ascomycetous fungi from the asci.
Mr. Gould spoke of the classification of the larger fungi, and made some
humorous remarks on the scents of fungi as an aid to identification.
Mr. Pearson referred to Stereum purpureum as being the cause of "silver
leaf" in plum and other fruit trees, and announced that approximately
150 species of fungi had been recorded during the day's foray. Included
in this total were the following new records for the Forest :—
Lactarius circellatus Fr.
Flammula ochrochlora Fr.
Corticium rosco-cremeum Brs.
Corticium praetermissum (Karst) Bres.
Corticium sphaerosporum R. Maire.
The last is new to Britain, and will be described later in the Transactions
of the British Mycological Society.
The President proposed a vote of thanks to the referees, which was
heartily accorded by the meeting.
Mr. T. Johnston Farrell, B.A., LL.B., as representing the School Nature
Study Union, expressed his thanks to the Club for the invitation extended
to his members to join the foray.
Mrs. Boyd Watt seconded, on behalf of the members of the Gilbert
White Fellowship.
Miss A. Hibbert Ware, F.L.S., President of the Toynbee Natural
History Society, endorsed the expression of thanks in the name of her
Society.
The proceedings then terminated, but sufficient daylight yet remained,
thanks to this year's prolongation of "summer-time," to enable those
present to make a further inspection of the specimens displayed upon the
tables.
Essex Records of the Green Sandpiper (Totanus ochropus)
in 1920.—On 29th August I saw several Green Sandpipers at
Pitsea. At the Club's field-meeting at Dagenham on 18th
September I flushed a single bird, and later a party of four. In
Epping Forest on 5th December, I had a good observation of a
Green Sandpiper by the small pond on Fairmead Bottom : it
was so close that it could be identified without using the binocu-
lars, the white of the rump and tail being conspicuous. On
noticing me, the bird rose in the air with snipe-like flight, uttering
its loud whistling call-note, and disappeared in the direction of
Long Hills.—W. E. Glegg.