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the following are not recorded in A. A. Pearson's List of the Fungi of Epping
Forest, 1938:—Lycoperdon gemmatus, Trichoderma lignorum, Hypoxylon
multiforme.
The following were also identified:—
Mosses.
Polytrichum formosum Hedw., Dicranella heteromalla Schp.,
Campylopus flexuosus Brid., Grimmia pulvinata Smith, Tortula
muralis Hedw., Barbula rubella Mitt., Funaria hygrometrica Sibth.,
Aulacomnium androgynum Schwaeg., Orthodontium gracile var.
heterocarpum Watson, Webera nutans Hedw., Bryum capillare L.,
Mnium hornum L., Mnium punctatum L., Camptothecium sericeum
Kindb., Brachythecium rutabulum B. & S., Eurhynchium prae-
longum Hobk., Eurhynchium murale Milde, E. confertum Milde,
Plagiothecium pulchellum B. & S., P. silvaticum B. & S., Hypnum
fluitans L., H. cupressiforme L., Hylocomium squarrosum B. &. S.
Liverworts.
Pellia Fabbroniana Raddi, Cephalozia bicuspidata (L.) Dum. ?,
(young plants), Lophocolea heterophylla (Schrad.) Dum.
Mycetozoa.
Physarum nutans Pers., Stemonitis fusca Roth., Enerthenema
papillatum Rost., Cribraria vulgaris Schrad., Trichia scabra Rost.,
Arcyria denudata Wettstein.
ORDINARY MEETING (882nd Meeting)
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 29TH, 1947
This meeting was held in the Physics Lecture Theatre of the West Ham
Municipal College and, in the absence of the President on a business mission
to West Africa, Mr. L. S. Harley, Hon. Treasurer, was elected to the chair.
Mr. Waller exhibited and presented to the Museum a fine specimen of
Brefeldia maxima Rost. from Wanstead Park whence this species of Myce-
tozoa has not been recorded since 1917.
Mr. Pratt exhibited living male and female specimens of the Orange
Umber moth (Erannis aurantiaria Hb.), a species in which the female has
rudimentary wings and is incapable of flight. These were from Hainault
Forest where he reported that males of the Winter moth (Opheroptera
brumata L.) were in very large numbers a few nights before. He also showed
the mildew, Sphaerotheca pannosa, growing on a twig of Rosa arvensis.
In the absence of the author, the Hon. Secretary introduced and read
in abstract an important paper on "The Spiders of Essex," by Dr. J. E.
Hull, in continuation and amplification of his earlier account printed in
the Essex Naturalist in 1934. In the two papers a total of 194 species
is recorded (see E.N., xxiv, p. 209, and 28, p. 58).
A paper on Pelosphaera rotans Lauterborn, including remarks on other
free-swimming spherical colonies of micro-organisms, was read by Mr. D. H.
Scourfield, who showed various lantern photographs in illustration of his
remarks (see p. 64).
Mr. Thompson showed and described a "Historic Handkerchief,"
printed on silk in commemoration of the abortive trial in 1820 of Queen
Caroline, wife of George IV, and presented to the Museum by Mr. Paul
Baker (see p. 73).
Recent additions to the Pictorial Survey Collection of Essex photographs
were also shown.