Xerocomus chrysenteron Red-cracked boletus
Xerocomus porosporus a bolete
Agaricus bitorquis Pavement mushroom
Paxillus involutus Brown roll-rim
Russula lepida a brittle gill (scarlet)
Russula grisea a brittle gill (greyish-green)
Amanita phalloides Death cap
Amanita rubescens The blusher
Pluteus cervinus Fawn pluteus
Pluteus salicinus a greenish pluteus
Clitocybe gibba Common funnel cap
Megacollybia platyphylla Broad gilled agaric
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
I write in response to Mr Charles Watson's article 'The Field Club and Other Conservation
Bodies and Societies' printed in newsletter No. 21.
Mr Watson makes a great deal of sense in his comments regarding the need to improve
and promote better communication and mutual support between organisations such as the
Essex Field Club, the Essex Wildlife Trust and other conservation bodies.
Recent project proposals such as the Millennium bid for a national recording network
(sadly unsuccessful) and the current proposals for a new records centre in Epping, to
replace the lost facilities of Passmore Edwards, have highlighted the possibilities for
enhanced access and interchange of biological records between organisations, and has led
to a much improved understanding between the Field Club and the Wildlife Trust.
Such improvements in communication and exchange of biological data can only be for
the benefit of the county's wildlife so it was with considerable sadness that 1 read of the
un-acknowledged report that Mr Watson and his colleagues sent to the Trust on their
findings at Rushy Mead Nature Reserve.
I can confinn that the Trust has received the report, and that the records contained therein
have been added to the register for that reserve. 1 can therefore only apologise to Mr
Watson and the other members of the Field Club who were involved in carrying out that
survey for the lack of any acknowledgement of the report. Please accept my assurance
that no offence was intended, rather that it was simply an administrative oversight.
I fully share Mr Watson's aspirations of closer co-operation between EFC and EWT and
would welcome the opportunity to improve matters in this area.
Should any of the members of the EFC have a query regarding recording on Trust
reserves, please feel free to contact me at Fingringhoe Wick.
D.C. Bridges, Conservation Manager, Essex Wildlife Trust.
-------------------------Essex Field Club Newsletter No. 23, November 1997--------------------------