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met with. Twenty-one different birds were noted, including redshank,
curlew, herring gull, blackheaded gull, kestrel and heron, all seen or heard
on the Roach. A goodly list of wild flowers, totalling 115 species, was
made by Miss Prince, who acted as recorder, her list including Clematis
vitalba, Reseda luteola, Sison Amomum, Conopodium majus, AEthusa Cyna-
pium, Scabiosa arvensis, Eupatorium cannabinum, Aster Tripolium,
Pulicaria dysenterica, Tanacetum vulgare, Artemisia maritima, Helminthia
echioides, Limonium vulgare, Calystegia Soldanella, Lycium barbarum, Linaria
vulgaris, Verbena officinalis, Humulus lupulus, Spartina stricta and Phalaris
canariensis. A noteworthy feature, which we have, noticed on previous
occasions in this south-eastern corner of Essex, was the frequence of
plants of Chalk facies in the district, although no Chalk outcrop exists in
the neighbourhood.
In addition to the recorded list, the usual assemblage of Saltmarsh plants
was seen on the saltings (Salicornia perennis, Suaeda maritima, Triglochin
maritimum, Beta maritima, Atriplex portucaloides, etc.), but these were for
the most part not flowering at the time of our visit, and are therefore not
included in the list.
FUNGUS FORAY (706th MEETING).
SATURDAY, 15TH OCTOBER, 1932.
The weather was kind on the occasion of our Annual Fungus Foray,
especially during the morning when the sun—clouded over later—shone
brightly in a blue sky. A goodly company attended the function, rein-
forced by representatives of other societies which, in accordance with cus-
tom, had been invited to join the Foray, a gratifying circumstance being
the number of students from various colleges, who were present with their
tutors and whose keenness to learn the names of the fungi gathered was
noteworthy. In all, quite 150 persons took part in the Foray.
The Foray was, as usual in recent years, held in conjunction with the
British Mycological Society, the referees for the day being Miss Elsie Wake-
field, F.L.S., Mr. F. G. Gould, Mr. A. A. Pearson, F.L.S., and Mr. J. Rams-
bottom, O.B.E., F.L.S., for the larger fungi (Basidiomycetes and Ascomy-
cetes) and Miss G. Lister, F.L.S., for the minute Myxomycetes.
A morning party, numbering some So persons, assembled at Loughton
station at 10.41 o'clock and proceeded to the Forest at Strawberry Hill :
here, at the suggestion of the Hon. Secretary, it divided into smaller sec-
tions for greater convenience, and, each with its selected leader, and fol-
lowing its own route, began an intensive search through the woodlands for
the objects of its quest. An afternoon party left Loughton at 2.37 o'clock :
and by the united efforts of both parties, a plentiful show of specimens was
in evidence on the display-tables at the headquarters, the Roserville
Retreat at Highbeach, before tea-time.
Tea was taken at 4.30 o'clock, following which, a meeting was held with
Sir Arthur Smith Woodward, F.R.S., Vice-President of the Club, as chair-
man. The Chairman welcomed, on behalf of the Club, those members
of other Societies who were present; he then called upon our referees in turn
(with the sole exception of Miss Wakefield, who had been obliged to leave
earlier) for their reports on the result of the day's foray.
Mr. Gould said that, although weather conditions had been good, yet no
great variety of forms had been gathered, notwithstanding the large