280 THE ESSEX NATURALIST. 
The referees were :— 
For the Basidiomycetes and Ascomycetes : Miss Elsie Wakefield, F.L.S..,. 
Mr. F. G. Gould, Mr. Arthur A. Pearson, F.L.S., and Mr. J. Ramsbottom, 
O BACT E Se: . 
For the Myxomycetes: Miss G. Lister, F.L.S.; 
and ‘the headquarters were, as in former years, at the Roserville Retreat,. 
Highbeach, in Epping Forest. 
A morning party, numbering some 60 persons, assembled at Loughton. 
station at 10.41 o’clock, and, passing through Loughton village, entered. 
the Forest at York Hill; from here the route traversed was by way of Black- 
weir Hill, the “ gravel pits,’ Great Monk Wood and the Wake Valley and 
so to Highbeach. 
Two separate afternoon parties left Loughton station between 2 o’clock. 
and 3 o'clock, and took the shorter Forest route to Highbeach, via Staples 
Mill, Loughton Camp, and Little Monk Wood. 
By 4 o'clock a goodly number of specimens had been collected, and were- 
on exhibition, duly named, at the headquarters. 
Tea was served at 5 o'clock, after which a meeting of the Club was held: 
with the President, Dr. A. Smith Woodward, F.R.S., in the chair, when the: 
several referees gave brief reports on the finds of the day. 
Miss Wakefield called attention to the periodicity of fungi, a subject about. 
which very little is known, and she remarked that persons attending field- 
forays could do valuable work in recording facts of this nature. 
Mr. Ramsbottom remarked on the abundance of Amanita mappa this 
autumn, not only in Epping Forest, but throughout the country. He called 
special attention to a small agaric Schizophyllum commune, a single specimen 
of which had been found growing on a felled trunk that day : this species, 
rare in this country, has a special adaptation against drought, its gills being. 
split lengthways and the two halves separating and arching outwards so as 
to enclose and protect the spore-bearing surface in unfavourable times. 
[This specimen was secured for the Club’s Museum. Ep.] 
Miss Lister reported that 14 species of mycetozoa had been found during. 
the day ; the recent heavy rains had doubtless washed away many other of 
these fragile organisms. 
The list of mycetozoa 1s as follows :— 
Badhamia utricularis, B. panicea, Physarum nutans and its var. vobustum, 
Fuligo septica (in its sclerotium stage only), Stemonitis fusca, Comatricha 
nigra, C. tvphoides, Cribraria vulgaris, Dictydiaethalium plumbeum, Trichia 
varia, T. scabva, Arcyria denudata, A. pomiformis and A. cinerea. Trichia 
scabra was found on decayed beech logs at High Beach forming a layer of 
some five thousand shining orange sporangia. 
The President referred to the happy co-operation of the Brien Myco- 
logical Society with the Club on these occasions ; and welcomed members 
of the Gilbert White Fellowship, the School Nature Study Union and other 
Societies, who were present by invitation. He also proposed the cordial 
thanks of the Club to the conductors and referees, which were heartily 
accorded by those ’present. 
The proceedings then terminated. 
Mr. Pearson has since furnished a complete list of the fungi met with 
during the Foray, numbering 184 species and varieties, and including several 
