EPPING FOREST FUNGI. I27 



We have then in this assemblage of sea-side plants, or 

 " halophj'tes," as the physiolof^ist terms then, of widely differing 

 kinship, a response to the nature of their environment, producing 

 structural modification in more than one direction, though for 

 the same physiological purpose. 



[At the delivery of the above address in response to remarks 

 by Prof. Meldola, Mr. Boulger added that :— 



He quite recognised the important bearing that the 

 subject to which he had directed attention had upon the nmch 

 debated questions of the direct action of tlie environment and 

 the inheritance of acquired characters. He was afraid that 

 botanists could not feel themselves in a position to decide these 

 questions at present. Experiment — long continued experiment 

 — was necessar}' ; but, though, perhaps, all the facts to which he 

 had alluded that day might be explicable by special adaptation 

 of each individual and the elimination of the unadapted by 

 natural selection, he thought it possible, if not probable, that, 

 after many generations of such influence, adaptational characters 

 might become fixed, so as to be inherited without liability to loss 

 by reversion. 



EPPING FOREST FUNGI : REPORTS ON THE 

 SPECIES OBSERVED AT THE FUNGUS 

 FORAY ON OCTOBER, 12th, igoi. 



[As on previous occasions. Dr. Cooke and Mr. Massee kindly 

 undertook to determine the more interesting species gathered, 

 and their reports follow. Attention should also be called to Mr. 

 Massee's note on the new Amanita in the present part of the 

 Essex Naturalist.] 



NOTES ON THE LARGER FUNGI OBSERVED. 



By M. C. COOKE, M.A., LL.D., A.L.S., &c. 



I found an Agaric at High Beach eleven years ago (i88o) 

 and could not satisfy myself at the time of its name and situation. 

 Looking over my drawings, which have not been published, I 

 find this species, and now I am able to place it as follows : — 



Collybia pulla, Schcefif t., 250. Bolton t., 15. 



Pileus fleshy, thin, campanulate then expanded, obtuse, 

 even, smooth, hygrophanous ; stem usually hollow, twisted, 



