THE ESSEX NATURALIST. 
46 
Council), and Mr. C. Bestow (on the motion of Mr. Hugh Main, seconded 
by Mr. J. Ross), were duly elected. 
The Members of the Cole Pension Committee (viz., the President, Messrs. 
Avery, Christy, Whitaker, and Thompson) were, on the motion of Mr. 
Nicholson, seconded by Mr. Brand, re-appointed for the year 1919-20. 
The President then delivered her Presidential Address, On Some 
Water-Plants,” illustrating her remarks by lantern photographs and 
sketches,and by the exhibition of many herbarium-specimens and drawings 
executed by herself. 
Mr. Whitaker moved that the President be requested to allow her 
Address to be printed in the Club’s journal ; Mr. Avery seconded, and, on 
being put to the Meeting, the resolution was carried by acclamation. 
The proceedings then terminated. 
MYCETOZOA FOUND DURING THE FUNGUS AND 
GRYPTOGAMIC FORAYS IN EPPING FOREST, 
19th OCTOBER AND 9th NOVEMBER 1918 
The route taken for the Fungus Foray led from Buckhurst Hill, through 
Lord’s Bushes, down to Connaught Water and the Chingford Forest, 
and thence by Fairmead to High Beach. Lord’s Bushes, with its fine 
varied woodland, of oak, beech, hornbeam, holly, and birch, on a sub¬ 
soil of gravels and clay, proved the richest hunting ground ; the uni¬ 
form clay of the Chingford Forest yielded (as far as our rapid search 
extended) far less variety. The weather was brilliant after heavy rain 
on the preceding night, which had probably washed away or injured 
some of the more fragile species of Mycetozoa. 
Twenty species were collected by the efforts of many searchers. 
Mr. J. Ross, by an early start, had been able to make a considerable 
collection before the main party assembled. 
The most striking specimens obtained were Badhamia utriculavis , 
streaming in orange-yellow plasmodium over leathery fungi on prostrate 
logs ; Diderma fioriforme, found in perfect condition, with pearly-grey 
unexpanded sporangia, on a fragment of wood, knocked off (probably 
by deer) from an old oak trunk on which the species had appeared a 
year previously ; Dictydicsthalium plumbeum , forming conspicuous 
red and clay-coloured cakes on an old log ; and Arcyria ferruginca , 
usually an autumn species, and found in an immature stage only, 
when the serried ranks of club-shaped sporangia were still pale rose-coloured. 
The following is a list of the species noted :— 
Badhamia utriculavis (Bull.) Berk. 
Physarum nutans Pers., subsp. leucophceum. 
Fuhgo septica (L.) Gmel.—Old and weathered. 
Craterium minutum (Leers.) Fries. 
* Diderma fioriforme (Bull.) Pers. 
Didymium nigripes Fr. 
Stemonitis fusca Roth.—In white plasmodium only. 
*Comatvicha typhoides (Bull.) Rost. 
C. pulchella (Bab.) Rost. 
Dicty di csthalium plumbeum (Schum.) Rost. 
