THE ESSEX FIELD CLUB. 
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A. incarnata. 
A. cinereci. 
pomiformis. 
nutans. 
A 
A 
Trickia persimilis. 
T. varia. 
T. decipiens. 
T. Botrytis. 
Arcyria denudata. 
Mr. Ramsbottom, who followed, described the sclerotia of fungi, and 
spoke of the audible hissing sound made by the ejection of the spores of 
ascomyeetous fungi from the asci. 
Mr. Gould spoke of the classification of the larger fungi, and made some 
humorous remarks on the scents of fungi as an aid to identification. 
Mr. Pearson referred to Stereum purpureum as being the cause of “ silver 
leaf ” in plum and other fruit trees, and announced that approximately 
150 species of fungi had been recorded during the day’s foray. Included 
in this total were the following new records for the Forest:— 
Lactarius circellatus Fr. 
Flammula ochrochlora Fr. 
Corticium roseo-cremenm Brs. 
Corticium praetermissuni (Karst) Bres. 
Corticium sphaerosporum R. Maire. 
The last is new to Britain, and will be described later in the Transactions 
•of the British Mycologica! .Society. 
The President proposed a vote of thanks to the referees, which was 
heartily accorded by the meeting. 
Mr. T. Johnston Farrell, B.A., LL.B., as representing the School Nature 
Study Union, expressed his thanks to the Club for the invitation extended 
to his members to join the foray. 
Mrs. Boyd Watt seconded, on behalf of the members of the Gilbert 
White Fellowship. 
Miss A. Hibbert Ware, F.L.S., President of the Toynbee Natural 
History Society, endorsed the expression of thanks in the name of her 
Society. 
The proceedings then terminated, but sufficient daylight yet remained, 
thanks to this year’s prolongation of “-summer-time,” to enable those 
present to make a further inspection of the specimens displayed upon the 
tables. 
Essex Records of the Green Sandpiper (Totanus ochropits) 
in 1920.—On 29th August I saw several Green Sandpipers at 
Pitsea. At the Club’s field-meeting at Dagenham on 18th 
September I flushed a single bird, and later a party of four. In 
Epping Forest on 5th December, I had a good observation of a 
Green Sandpiper by the small pond on Fairmead Bottom : it 
was so close that it could be identified without using the binocu¬ 
lars, the white of the rump and tail being conspicuous. On 
noticing me, the bird rose in the air with snipe-like flight, uttering 
its loud whistling call-note, and disappeared in the direction of 
Long Hills.—W. E. Glegg. 
