164 THE ESSEX NATURALIST.
At "Haslemere," which was reached shortly before 5 o'clock, the party
was welcomed by Mrs. Keeves and her daughters, and tea was taken
immediately.
After tea the President expressed the thanks of the party to Mr. and Mrs.
Keeves for their kindly hospitality and for the former's leadership during
the day's ramble.
Mr. Keeves briefly replied, and the vote of thanks was passed by
acclamation.
The Hon. Secretary gave a short summary of the results of the day's
explorations, and the visitors then adjourned for an inspection of Mr. Keeves's 
extensive garden and fruit-ground.
A pleasant, personally-conducted walk in the early dusk, back to Shenfield
Station, in time to catch the 7.34 train to town, ended a most enjoyable
outing.
FUNGUS FORAY IN EPPING FOREST (552ND MEETING).
SATURDAY, 14TH OCTOBER, 1922.
The Club's Annual Fungus Foray this year was memorable as being the
first held in conjunction with the British Mycological Society ; in addition,
some members of the Gilbert White Fellowship, the School Nature Study
Union, the South London Botanical Institute, the Toynbee Natural History
Society, and the Croydon Natural History Society, were present by invita-
tion, making a grand total of nearly 150 persons attending the Foray.
The conductors and referees were as follow:—
and the headquarters for the meeting were, as usual, at the Roserville 
Retreat, Highbeach.
The route traversed by the morning party, which assembled at Chingford
Station at 11.6 o'clock, was by way of Bury Wood, Cuckoo Pits and Fair-
mead Bottom to the High Wood at Highbeach ; the afternoon party met at
Loughton Station at 2.54 o'clock and worked the Loughton side of the Forest
via Staples Hill, Loughton Camp, and the birch ground to the north, and so
to Highbeach.
Contrary to expectation, the yields were less abundant than the unusually
wet summer had promised, the dry spell of the past week having checked
the profusion of fungi which had begun to evince itself earlier in the month ;
and, curiously enough, the lower ground of the Chingford portion of the
Forest yielded less specimens, and those often of poor development, than
the higher ground about Highbeach; nevertheless, the resultant show of
finds at the headquarters was by no means a poor one.
The following basidiomycetes, found during the foray, are new records 
for Epping Forest:—
Tricholoma saponaceum Fr. var. squamosa Cke.
Russula atropurpurea (Kromb.) R. Maire.