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HARDWICKE'S SCIENCE-GOSSIP. 



success. On the hill-slope below La Moye came a 

 tract of ground covered with Sarothamnus prostratus, 

 on which grew some fine Orobanchc major. About 

 here Mr. Piquet had a week previously found Linaria 

 Pdisseriana in plenty, but as we had searched with- 

 out success a few days after, were not very sanguine 

 about adding it to our store ; but, however, we care- 

 fully searched among the Cusitela-covered Ulex and 

 prickly Ritscus, and then, as these became less fre- 

 quent where the hill-side was purple with Echium 

 violaceum, and then higher still among myriads of 

 Sedum Anglicum, yuncus capitatus, Trichonema 

 columnce in fruit, Radiola milligrana, Helian- 

 t/iemum guttatum surrounded with its quickly- 

 falling petals, Sikne conica, Lotus angustissimus, 

 Aira pnvcox, and Euphorbia Portlandica, but no 

 Linaria. Some Jersey cows were browsing 

 eagerly about the gorse clumps ; and as Mr. 

 Piquet said they are very fond of the Linaria, its 

 disappearance was at once laid to their charge. 

 As no ready means of revenge presented itself, 

 another search was made, this time rewarded with 

 Asparagus prostratus and Aspknium lanceolatum, 

 and at last, with the real Simon pure in fruit. 

 Having mercy upon it, we selected only a scrap 

 or two, and, elated, set off at a fast rate for St. 

 Brelade's, where suddenly we had to halt to avoid 

 the desecration of trampling upon a few hundreds 

 of Trifolium strictum growing some 10 in. high. De- 

 scending to St. Brelade's, Silene nutans, Silene quinque- 

 vulnera, Scdum dasyphyllum, and Delphinium Ajacis 

 were picked. The road to St. Aubyn's was bordered 

 with Silene nutans and Scrophularia Scarodonia ; 

 while, with vasculi, hats, books, and hands full of 

 specimens, we trudged along up the sandy road, 

 scarcely deigning to notice Polycarpon tetraphyllum, 

 Oxalis stricta, Epilobium lanceolatum, and Hie- 

 racim pilosis si mum, reaching St. Aubyn's in time for 

 the train to bear us round the beautiful bay to St. 

 Helier's, where something more solidly sustaining 

 than cocoa had to be discussed previously to putting 

 in press our numerous and rich collection. 



G. C. Druce. 



AN AUTUMN RAMBLE IN 

 EPPING FOREST. 



Part I. 



By Dr. De Cresitgny. 



TO procure specimens of a late-flowering and 

 uncommon Chenopod (C. nrbicum) from a 

 locality on the borders of Epping Forest, we had 

 lately occasion to make an excursion in that direction, 

 when the opportunity was taken advantage of for a 

 ramble through the shaded dells and broken uplands 

 of the forest in search of fungi, which are always to 

 be found there on the setting in of the autumnal 



rains, in great variety and abundance. Many clearances 

 have been made of late years in the neighbourhood 

 of Walthamstow and Wanstead ; consequently, 

 although there are still many unenclosed patches of 

 woodland thereabouts, of which the most consider- 

 able extends southwards of Wanstead, we can hardly 

 consider ourselves fairly within the precincts of the 

 forest proper until we have left Woodford behind us. 

 Traversing, then, one of these detached woods — that 

 which lies between this place and Walthamstow, — we 



Fig. 206. 



a. Vertical section of an Agaric ( Trichohma nudits). 



b. Ditto of lamella; of ditto showing the trama continuous 



with the pileus. 



Fig. 207. Filamentous Trama 

 of an Agaricus (Amanita 

 nibcsccns. ) 



Fig. 208. Persistent Scales of 

 the Cuticle of A. {Lepiota} 

 rachodes. 



Fig. 209. Section of A (rtcurctus) Fig. 210. Decurrent lines 

 ulmaritts. and ring on the stem of 



Amanita rubescens. 



turndown the Chingford road into the hollow below, 

 where a lane, right, leads into a copse bordered by 

 a rill and a narrow strip of pasturage ; beyond, left, 

 is the warren and farmhouse, well known to ex- 

 cursionists as Queen Elizabeth's Lodge ; onwards, a 

 footpath to High Beech Hill. Forcing our way in 

 this direction, at one time with difficulty through 

 tangled and almost impenetrable thickets, at another 

 crossing some open grassy glade, or stretch of 



