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Badhamia utricularis (Bull.) Berk. On leathery fungus.
Physarum nutans Pers. and var. leucophaeum Lister.
Fuligo septica (L.) Gmel., mouldy.
Craterium minutum (Leers) Fries, on holly leaves.
Diderma floriforme (Bull.) Pers. On oak wood.
D. effusum (Schwein), Morgan. On beech leaves.
Didymium nigripes Fries. On holly leaves.
D. squamulosum (Alb. & Schwein) Fries. On holly leaves.
Stemonitis fusca Roth. On dead wood.
Comatricha typhoides (Bull.) Rost. On dead wood.
C. nigra (Pers.) Schroeter. On sticks.
Lycogala epidendrum (L.) Fries. Found emerging in coral-red masses
from dead wood.
Trichia varia Pers. On dead wood, abundant.
X. scabra Rost. On dead wood.
Arcyria denudata (L.) Wettst. On dead wood.
A. pomiformis (Leers) Rost. On dead oak wood.
Perichaena corticalis (Batsch.) Rost. On a poplar log.
The total finds were thus only seventeen. It may be mentioned that
Mr. J. Ross found in the Forest, on the succeeding day, four additional
species, viz., Didymium Clavus Fries, Colloderma oculatum G. Lister, Coma-
tricha pulchella Rost., and Lamproderma scintillans Morgan, the last abun-
dant on dead holly leaves.
Nature-Notes at Dagenham.—Our member, Mr. F. W. Allen, who
is Clerk to the Dagenham Urban District Council, reports that seven
cygnets were during the early summer of 1932 hatched out and have been
successfully reared on the lake in the grounds of the Council's Offices at
Valence House, which now boasts of four adult swans, besides various
ducks and moorhen: the moorhens too have hatched out two broods
during the year. In addition, the grounds are frequented by Tawny Owls,
Rooks and various small birds.
It is pleasing to know that Valence House, which is an oasis surrounded
by miles of new streets, is to be treated as a sanctuary for wild nature.—
Editor.
New Species of Cyclops.—Our Vice-President, Mr. D. J. Scourfield,
I.S.O., F.L.S., etc., describes, in Ann. and Mag. of Nat. Hist. for December,
1932, a new species of Cyclops from Tenby, under the name of Cyclops
(Bryocyclops) demetriensis. The specimens were found on the face of a
cliff "where a minute trickle of water came oozing out of a small fissure
in the rock," and the author suggests that the species may be really an
underground form, living in fissures in the rocks.—Editor.