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many interesting facts are given in the secretary's reports of the
annual forays. The forays have usually been to Epping Forest,
but occasionally other areas have been worked. I have not
considered it necessary to deal with these lists in detail. More-
over, I have not attempted to compile a list of the fungi recorded
for the County, but the following papers would form a basis for
this :—
A preliminary list of the Hymenomycetal Fungi of Epping
Forest; a contribution to the botany of the county. By
M. C. Cooke and James L. English.
Trans., II., pp. 181-191 (1882).
Preliminary list of the microscopic fungi of Essex—Ustilaginei
and Aecidiomycetes. By M. C. Cooke.
Essex Naturalist, I., pp. 184-186 (1887).
Contributions towards a list of the fungi of Essex—Discomy-
cetes. By M. C. Cooke. Ibid., II., pp. 189-192 (1888).
The Hymenomycetal fungi of Epping Forest, with a catalogue
of the species. By M. C. Cooke. Ibid., III., pp. 248-271 (1889).
The Cryptogamic flora of Kelvedon and its neighbourhood . .
compiled from the herbarium and notes made by the late E. G.
Varenne, M.R.C.S. By E. D. Marquand.
Ibid., V., pt. (Fungi pp. 20-24) (1891).
The Uredines and Ustilagineae of Essex : a contribution to the
flora of the county. By F. J. Chittenden. Ibid. XIII. (pp.
283-294) (1904) and XVI., pp. 1-5 (1907).
There are also occasional short lists of fungi new to the
County or to Epping Forest, as e.g. "Fungi new to Essex
gathered at Hatfield Forest" (Essex Naturalist, iv., 219,
1890), a list of twenty-five species, gathered during the autumn
foray in 1890. A Foray of the British Mycological Society in
1906 added fifty-two species to M. C. Cooke's list.
It is further to be noted that Worthington G. Smith in his
Supplement to the Outlines of British Fungology by Berkeley (1891)
says an "addition, which it is hoped will be found of value,
"especially to London students, is the marking of all the species
"hitherto found in Epping Forest."
In tracing the history of Essex Mycology I have entered some
by-paths along which it would have been interesting to have
travelled to their full length. Mycology has many ramifications
and moreover several of those who had added to its development
were men whose lives were full in every sense of the word.