THE ESSEX FIELD CLUB. 
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station. The route was arranged to afford as varied opportunity as 
possible for studying the various grass-associations of roadsides, pasture 
lands, forest glades, and swamps ; and the Conductors gave informal 
demonstrations en route > as points of ecological or other special interest 
presented themselves. A total walkmg-distance of nearly five miles 
was involved. 
Tea was taken at Oak Hill Farm, Theydon Bois, and cordial thanks 
were given to the Conductors for their services. 
FUNGUS FORAY AT LOUGHTON AND HIGH BEACH 
(453rd MEETING.) 
Saturday, 14TH October 1916. 
The Club’s Autumn Fungus. Foray in Epping Forest (now an important 
annual “ fixture ” in the mycological world) attracts interested visitors 
from distant parts of the country. This year it was held in the Loughton 
and High Beach districts, eighty persons attending. As in former years, 
some members of the Selborne Society and of the School Nature Study 
Union were present by invitation of the Club. The expert referees were 
Miss A. Lorrain Smith, F.L.S., Miss E. M. Wakefield, of the Royal Her¬ 
barium, Kew, Mr. F. G. Gould, Mr. Arthur A. Pearson, and Mr. J. Rams- 
bottom, of the Natural History Museum, for the Basidiomycetes and 
Ascomycetes ; while Miss A. Hibbert-Ware, F.L.S. (in the regrettable 
absence, owing to illness, of our President), acted as “teller” for the 
Myxomycetes. Morning and afternoon parties were organised, and col¬ 
lecting proceeded throughout the day in various sections of the wood¬ 
lands. The head-quarters were, as usual, at the Roserville Retreat, 
High Beach, and here tea was served at 5 o’clock, followed by short 
Reports by the Conductors on the finds of the day ; while the specimens 
collected were displayed in an adjoining hall and duly named by the 
experts present. 
The most interesting finds among the larger fungi were Hydnum 
coralloides (Scop.) Fr., growing on a rotting stump at Fairmead Bottom 
(a portion of which handsome form was secured for the Club’s Museum 
at Stratford), Corticium confluens Fr., and Hypholoma pseudostoria 
W.G.Sm., which are new records for the Forest. 
Mr. Pearson contributes the following :— 
LIST OF HYMEXOMYCETES FOUND IN EPPING FOREST 
AT THE FUNGUS FORAY, 14th OCTOBER 1916. 
Amanita phalloides, mappa, muscaria , pantherina, rubescens. 
Amanitopsis vaginata, fulva. 
Lepiota procera, granulosa, amianthina. 
Ay miliaria mellea, mucida. 
Tricholoma sejunctum, flavo-brunneum , albo-brunneum, rutilans , 
saponaceuni, cuneifolium , nudum. 
Clitocybe nebularis, clavipes, ditopus, aurantiaca. 
Laccaria laccata and var., amethyshna. 
Collybia radicata, maculata , butyracea. 
Mycena galericulata, ammoniaca, sanguinolenta , galopus, leucogola> 
epi pterygia. 
