FUNGI OF EPPING FOREST: MYXOMYCETES 337
The Fungi of Epping Forest
Part 3
MYXOMYCETES
By Bernard T. Ward
Our knowledge of the Mycetozoa of Epping Forest stems
almost entirely from observations made by members of the Club.
Arthur Lister (1830-1908) a founder member of the Essex Field
Club studied the group and prepared a Catalogue of the specimens
in the Natural History Museum. His work A Monograph of the
Mycetozoa: Being a descriptive Catalogue of the species in the
Herbarium of British Museum (1894) illustrated by plates in black
and white being photographic reproductions of colour drawings
made by his daughter Miss Gulielma Lister F.L.S., became the
standard British work. The second edition of the Monograph
with numerous plates in colour was completed after his death by
his daughter, herself twice elected to the Presidency of the Club.
Other members who furnished notes were Thomas Petch, who
became mycologist to the Royal Botanic Gardens in Ceylon, Miss
Alice Hibbert Ware, F.L.S., and Mr Joseph Ross who from 1914
supplied lists each month. At the time of the Club's Special
Memoir The Mycetozoa (1918) Miss Lister recorded 88 species for
the County, most of which were from Epping Forest. Since 1918
the list has grown steadily, but less rapidly as additional species
become less easily found. Nevertheless in 1945 Mr Ross pub-
lished a list of Forest species in the London Naturalist under the
Cuckoo Pits Survey totalling some 106 species excluding varie-
ties. The present list totals 107 species excluding varieties.
The nomenclature follows that of Miss G. Lister in the 3rd
Edition of the Monograph (1925).
MYCETOZOA
(MYXOMYCETES)
Ceratiomyxa fruticulosa (Mueller) Macbride.
Badhamia populina Lister.
B. utricularis (Bulliard) Berkeley.
B. foliicola Lister.
B. macrocarpa (Cesati) Rostafinski.
B. panicea (Fries) Rost.
B. panicea (Fries) Rost., var. heterospora G. Lister.
B. rubiginosa (Chevallier) Rost., var. dictyospora Lister.
Physarum psittacinum Ditmar.