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jiurple leaves of the cornel ; the oaks, rich with acorns, were golden-leaved again. 
Here, too, was a rich gathering of fruit and berry, hip and haw, and the trailing 
garlands of bryony, emerald, amber and crimson, the rose-flushed, fourfold fruit 
of the spindle-tree, the shining black clusters of privet, the luscious blackberry. 
Mushrooms, too, were to be had in the open ; and so on, past copses brilliant 
with the wild cherry’s unrivalled foliage, by down and wood, until the gorse-clad 
heights of Coulsdon Common were reached. Here a short stay' at the Fox Inn 
for tea, and then towards the setting sun, Marlpit Lane, and the station. 
October 15. — By the kind invitation of the Essex Field Club a party of 
Selbornians, organised by Mrs. Percy Myles, was enabled to join in the twenty- 
fifth Annual Fungus Fotay, held by the successful County Society. An interesting 
slug was obtained (Limax tenellus, Mull.), about which there is an article in the 
current number of the Journal of Conchology, though the Epping habitat is 
not there mentioned. Mr. Fetch, who exhibited the specimen at the meeting 
held in the evening at the King’s Oak Hotel, High Beach, has found at least a 
dozen specimens, and says that it is widely distributed in the Forest. The 
reason why it has been overlooked apparently is that it feeds on the underground 
hyphre of fungi during the greater part of the year, and only comes to the 
surface when toad-stools appear above ground. Two fungi, which apparently 
have not been found in this country before, were discovered, viz., Clitocybe 
tabescens and Agaricus rubella. Dr. M. C. Cooke and Mr. Massee were, as 
usual, the experts, and the latter in the evening gave an address on the diseases 
of trees, using as illustrations the coloured pictures of their life-histories which 
he has made, and which the Board of Agriculture is publishing for the benefit 
of horticulturalists and foresters. 
SELBORNE SATURDAY AFTERNOONS. 
November 12. — Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, W., Botanical 
Department. Demonstration on the history of seeds and fruits, by Professor 
Boulger. Assemble in the Central Hall at 2.15 p.m. 
Saturday., November 26. — Visit to two Ancient Halls of City Guilds. 
2.30 p.m. Stationers’ Hall, Stationers’ Hall Court, Ludgate Hill, E.C. 
Guide, Charles Robert Rivington, Esq., F.S.A. (Clerk to the Company). 
3.30. Apothecaries’ Hall, Water Lane, Blackfriars, E.C. 
Guide, A. Mowbray Upton, Esq. (Clerk to the Society). 
ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. 
S. J. Jones. — rolygonum Persicaria, Common Persicaria or Crab-grass. 
Villager.— ■ torminalis, the Wild Service-tree. 
Peter Hastie. — Cosmos bipinnatus, a native of Mexico, cultivated in .South 
Africa and elsewhere. More about Mark Catesby and the Catalpa next rrronth. 
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