BOTANY 



Polyides rotundus, Grev. 

 Cruoriella Dubyi, Schmitz. 

 Hildenbrandtia prototypus, Nardo. 

 Melobesia membranacea, Lamour. 

 corticiformis, Kuetz. 



Melobesia Corallinae, Crouan 

 Lithophyllum Lenormandi, Rosan 

 Corallina officinalis, L. 



rubens, L. 



corniculata, L. 



FUNGI 



It is difficult to compare the cryptogamic flora of one county with 

 that of another, because cryptogamic botanists are few and the record of 

 cryptogamic plants for all counties is very incomplete. 



Probably the Epping Forest district is one of the most thoroughly 

 investigated of England. For many years a large party of members of 

 the Essex Field Club have explored the Forest each autumn in search of 

 fungi. Messrs/ English and Worthington Smith have also collected 

 fungi in this county. In spite of these many workers, Dr. M. C. Cooke 

 says that it may be taken for granted that the mycology of the Forest 

 has been by no means exhausted. 



Altogether 406 species of Hymenomycetous fungi have been re- 

 corded in Epping Forest. 1 This is a good record, as only 1,338 species 

 are recorded as occurring in Great Britain. It is evident that Essex is 

 not an unfavourable county for the development of fungi. Several 

 species new to Britain have been first detected in Epping Forest. 



E. G. Varenne contributed a list of the cryptogamic plants in the 

 neighbourhood of Kelvedon, 8 a part of Essex which is possibly more in 

 character with the county generally than the Epping Forest. 



A short list of Ustilaginei and ./Ecidiomycetes was also contributed 

 by M. C. Cooke.* Of these Delitschia insignis, Mont., and Sporodesmium 

 pyriforme, Corda, are new to Britain. 



The following is a list of the Essex fungi, found mostly in the 

 Epping Forest and in the neighbourhood of Kelvedon. A few were 

 observed by myself in the neighbourhood of Colchester. 



Agaricus (Amanita) phalloides, Fr. 



vernus, Bull. 



mappa, Fr. 



muscarius, Fr. 



pantherinus, Fr. 



strobiliformis, Fr. 



excelsus, Fr. 



rubescens, Fr. 



spissus, Fr. 



nitidus, Fr. 



vaginatus, Fr. 



var. nivalis, Grev. 



strangulatus, Fr. 



Agaricus (Lepiota) procerus, Scop. 



rachodes, Vitt. 



excoriatus, Schaeff. 



acutesquamosus, Weinm. 



cristatus, A. & S. 



carcharias, Pers. 



granulosus, Batsch. 



(Armillaria) constrictus, Fr. 



melleus, Vahl. 



mucidus, Schrad. 

 (Tricholoma) sejunctus, Sow. 



portentosus, Fr. 



resplendens, Fr. 



1 The arrangement and nomenclature followed in this list is that of the Handbook of British Fungi, 

 by M. C. Cooke (1871), and of the British Uredinett and Uiti/agiaete by Chas. B. Plowright (1889). 



* ' Hymenomycetal Fungi of Epping Forest,' by M. C. Cooke, M.A., LL.D., Essex Naturafut, 

 iii. 248. 



8 Essex NaturaKst, v. 2 1 . 



* Ibid. i. 1 84, and 'Recent Additions to the Fungi of Epping Forest,' by Geo. Massee, F.L.S., in 

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