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THE ESSEX NATURALIST. 
the other hand, old stumps, and living trees, had yielded a fair harvest of 
Hypholomas, Pholiotas, and various kinds of Polyporus ; while in ditches 
and marshy places,usually too full of water to enable fungi to grow, had 
been found comparatively rare species, such as Bolbitius iiavidus and, 
Psilocybe eviccea. The fungi found on dung namely, Coprinus niveus, 
Anellaria 'separata, Panceolus campanulatus and Stropharia scmi-globala 
had been much in evidence. The gravelly soil at High Beach had yielded 
quite a good crop of Amanita muscaria, Amanita rubescens, and several 
kinds of Boletus, particularly edulis. A remarkable feature of the foray 
was the large quantity of the False Chanterelle ( Cantharellus auvantiacus) 
which had turned up. This beautiful fungus has been comparatively 
rare in the Forest for many years, but on the present occasion numerous 
specimens had been gathered among long grass in open situations, where 
the full effect of recent showers of rain and heavy dews would be felt. 
Miss G. Lister reported that seventeen species of myxomycetes had 
been recorded during the foray, most of them forms which grow on tree- 
stumps ; forms which grow on dead leaves on the ground were this year 
of rare occurrence. 
After the extremely dry season a few showers had done something to 
moisten old logs and stumps in sheltered places, and sticks lying amongst 
grass, and conditions were favourable for the plasmodium of some Mycet- 
ozoa to emerge and form sporangia, but the beds of dead leaves, which in 
wet seasons often abound with some species of Didymium, were almost 
dry, and yielded little to diligent search. The following is a list of the 
seventeen species found :— 
Physavum nutans Pers., var. rob us turn ; a form with short white stalks 
and rather rigid capillitium. 
Fuligo septica Gmel. ; a weathered aethalium. 
Didymium squamulosum (Alb. & Schw.) Fr. On old horse dung and 
dead holly leaves. 
Stemonitis fusca Roth. Conspicuous masses of white plasmodium were 
seen emerging in cauliflower-like cushions from decayed wood (and 
these matured into sporangia twenty-four hours later.) 
Stemonitis ferruginea Ehrenb. A handsome tuft of reddish-brown 
sporangia, on dead wood. 
Comatricha nigra Pers. Seen emerging as translucent white beads 
and also as mature stalked sporangia, on sticks. 
C. typhoides (Bull.) Rost. On dead wood. 
Lamproderma scintillans (Berk. & Br.) Morg. On dead holly leaves. 
Reticularia lycoperdon D.C. Two young cream-white aethalia were 
found on a dead stick (and matured the following day.) 
Lycogala epidendvum (L.) Fr. On a hornbeam log. 
Trichia affinis De Bary and T. scabva Rost, on stumps. 
T. varia Pers. A large growth was found within a hollow tree ; the 
sporangia were bristling with the parasitic Stilbum tomentosum. 
T. Botrytis Pers. On a stick. 
Arcyria pomiformis (Leers) Rost—and A. nutans (Bull.) Grev. on decay¬ 
ing oak. 
A. dcnudata (L.) Wettst. On stumps. 
The President welcomed, in the name of the Club, those members of 
