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Schizophyllum commune Fr. 
Cortinarius (Dermocybe) mystillinus Fr. 
Polyporus tephroleucus Fr. 
‘Grandinia helvetica (Pers.) Fr, 
Hypochnus subfuscus Karst. 
Corticium botryosum Bres, 
Peniophora pubera (Fr.) Sacc. 
Peniophora incarnata (Pers.) Cke., var. hydnoidea (Pers.) Bourd and 
Galz. (=Radulum laetum) 
Clavaria stricta. 
Among other interesting forms exhibited were Geoglossum glabrum, 
Hydnum coralloides, Lycoperdon celatum, Clavaria pistillaris and C. fust- 
formts. Two remarkably fine examples of Aymillaria mucida were found 
‘growing on a pollard hornbeam,an unusual host plant for this beech parasite, 
Tea was served at 5 o'clock at the headquarters ; following which a 
‘meeting of the Club was held at which four candidates were nominated for 
election as members. 
The President, in calling upon the several conductors for their reports 
on the day’s finds, observed that that meeting—the first Foray organised 
in conjunction with the British Mycological Society—-marked in his opinion 
-a, milestone in the history of the Club. He mentioned that year by year 
‘since the foundation of the Club in 1880, its Fungus Foray had been held 
(almost invariably in Epping Forest), and he spoke of the older mycologists— 
Worthington G. Smith, Dr. M. C. Cooke, George Massee, and others, now 
deceased—who had joined those forays and given their expert services in 
bygone years. He thought that mere collecting was not enough, the ecologi- 
cal study of the Fungi should be undertaken, and now that the British 
Mycological Society had joined forces with the Club, it seemed appropriate 
that some such intensive study should be inaugurated. 
Miss Lorrain Smith, Messrs. Ramsbottom, Pearson and Gould, made 
‘some apposite remarks: Miss Wakefield, who was unfortunately suffering 
from. a severe cold, was not called upon to speak. 
Miss Lister said that her own especial protégés, the myxomycetes, had 
‘been exceptionally abundant that day, doubtless by reason of the week of 
fine weather following much rain, no fewer than 36 species having been re- 
‘corded. 
On November 21, 1896, at the Club’s Foray, in the neighbourhood of 
‘Cook’s Folly, Walthamstow Forest,! a rare myxomycete (Badhamia rubt- 
ginosa var. dictyospora) was found in the Forest for the first time, and had 
never again been recorded until to-day, when multitudes of its pinkish white 
sporangia, in perfect condition, scattered over a space of seven yards by 
four yards, had been found by Miss Greaves, covering fallen twigs and leaves : 
in some cases the plasmodium had surged up the hornbeam trunks themselves 
for some six inches and had there formed into colonies of sporangia. The 
full list of species found was as follows :— 
Badhamia utricularts, 
B. rvubiginosa, var. dictyospora. 
Physarum nutans with the var. leucophaeum, and var. robustum ; abund- 
ant. 
1 The first occasion on which the Club had made the search for myxomycetes a special part 
of the day’s programme, See Essex NATURALIST, ix., p. 250.—ED. 
