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BMS spring foray: Juniper hall field studies centre, Dorking, Surrey — 30 April to 7 May 1999
Volume 14, Part 2, May 2000
BMS Spring Foray: Juniper Hall Field Studies Centre, Dorking, Surrey - 30 April to 7 May 1999 This foray was wholly successful, even though only twelve participants attended as residents. They were joined each day by many non-residents and up to forty attended the forays throughout the week; a good number of the non-residents also attended the laboratory sessions in the evenings. This might be dubbed the London effect, since there are many specialists who live and work in the Greater London area who were able to join the foray without the need to board at the Centre. Among the residents were two visitors from Denmark: Thomas Leessee, late of the Royal Botanic Gardens Kew and now at Copenhagen University, and Jens Petersen of Aarhus University. Both are excellent field mycologists as well as being professionals. They are working on a new publication on all genera with fruit-body forming species from Northern Europe, soon to be available on CD (look at MycoKey.com on the Internet where "Agarics" are available in a test version). Dr Maurice Moss organised a splendid programme, with some help from Patrick Leonard of the West Weald Fungus Recording Group, and from Nick Legon who knows many of the sites
very well. Sites visited included all of the soil types present in the area i.e. Chalk, Greensand and Wealden Clay. Norbury Park, Box Hill and Sheep Leas were the chalk sites and Witley and Milford Commons were the sandstone sites, with Esher Common lying just outside the Weald also on sandy soil. The clay site was Ebernoe Common in West Sussex, recently declared a National Nature Reserve. This is a grazed woodland relic of the ancient Wealden Forest, and is part of the same system of woodland as The Mens and Cut, famous from earlier BMS Forays. Notable finds included: Catinella olivacea on Esher Common (see Fig 1). Coprinus scobicola on grass cuttings from Esher Common. This was apparently only the second British record for this species. Hypoxylori macrocarpum on Alnus glutinosa from Ebernoe Common. This is the first recorded occurrence of this species in Britain. It is recently described from central Europe, but is very close to H. rubiginosum and may not be uncommon.
BMS Spring Foray 1999: group at Esher Common. Left to right: Nick Legon, John Wheeley, Patrick Leonard, Maurice Moss (organiser), Mike Austin, Dick Alder, Ern Emmett, Martin Gregory, Brian Spooner, Derek Schafer, Paul Cannon, Ann Leonard, Jens Petersen, Alick Henrici, Irene Ridge, Thomas Lesssee, Jerry Cooper, Shelley Evans, A. N. Other.
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Fig 1 Catinella olivacea. An attractive species collected from Ash (Fraxinus excelsior) on Esher Common; the photographed specimen was from Sheep Leas. Photograph © Jens H. Petersen
Fig 3 Chaenothecopsis caespitosa from Yew (Taxus baccata) on Box Hill (see text). Photograph © Jens H. Petersen
Fig 2 Plectania melastoma. Found on Erica cinerea and Calluna vulgaris on MilfordjWitley Commons (see text). Photograph © Jens H. Petersen
Fig 4 Glyphium elatum. From bark of Willow (Salix sp.) Ebernoe Common. Only 14 other records of this species are on the BMSFRD. Photograph © Jens H. Petersen
Melanoleuca strictipes, which was found with Calocybe gambosa under Crataegus on Witley Common, is only previously recorded from Mull and SE England. Plectania melastoma, which Ann Leonard found on Calluna and Erica on the sandstone sites the first records for these substrata on the BMS database; a striking looking 'Discomycete' (Fig 2). Chaenothecopsis caespitosa on Taxus baccata from Box Hill, a non lichenised member of this
genus and an exciting find for our Danish visitors (Fig 3). There are now 21 records of this on the BMS database.
Daldinia vernicosa (= D. gelatinosa according to T. Leessce) on burnt Ulex from Milford Common. Glyphium elatum on Salix from Ebernoe Common (Fig 4) - there are only six recent records of this species on the BMSFRD. Ernest E. Emmett
BMS Spring Foray: Juniper Hall Field Studies Centre, Dorking, Surrey - 30 April to 7 May 1999 This foray was wholly successful, even though only twelve participants attended as residents. They were joined each day by many non-residents and up to forty attended the forays throughout the week; a good number of the non-residents also attended the laboratory sessions in the evenings. This might be dubbed the London effect, since there are many specialists who live and work in the Greater London area who were able to join the foray without the need to board at the Centre. Among the residents were two visitors from Denmark: Thomas Leessee, late of the Royal Botanic Gardens Kew and now at Copenhagen University, and Jens Petersen of Aarhus University. Both are excellent field mycologists as well as being professionals. They are working on a new publication on all genera with fruit-body forming species from Northern Europe, soon to be available on CD (look at MycoKey.com on the Internet where "Agarics" are available in a test version). Dr Maurice Moss organised a splendid programme, with some help from Patrick Leonard of the West Weald Fungus Recording Group, and from Nick Legon who knows many of the sites
very well. Sites visited included all of the soil types present in the area i.e. Chalk, Greensand and Wealden Clay. Norbury Park, Box Hill and Sheep Leas were the chalk sites and Witley and Milford Commons were the sandstone sites, with Esher Common lying just outside the Weald also on sandy soil. The clay site was Ebernoe Common in West Sussex, recently declared a National Nature Reserve. This is a grazed woodland relic of the ancient Wealden Forest, and is part of the same system of woodland as The Mens and Cut, famous from earlier BMS Forays. Notable finds included: Catinella olivacea on Esher Common (see Fig 1). Coprinus scobicola on grass cuttings from Esher Common. This was apparently only the second British record for this species. Hypoxylori macrocarpum on Alnus glutinosa from Ebernoe Common. This is the first recorded occurrence of this species in Britain. It is recently described from central Europe, but is very close to H. rubiginosum and may not be uncommon.
BMS Spring Foray 1999: group at Esher Common. Left to right: Nick Legon, John Wheeley, Patrick Leonard, Maurice Moss (organiser), Mike Austin, Dick Alder, Ern Emmett, Martin Gregory, Brian Spooner, Derek Schafer, Paul Cannon, Ann Leonard, Jens Petersen, Alick Henrici, Irene Ridge, Thomas Lesssee, Jerry Cooper, Shelley Evans, A. N. Other.
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Volume 14, Part 2, May 2000
Fig 1 Catinella olivacea. An attractive species collected from Ash (Fraxinus excelsior) on Esher Common; the photographed specimen was from Sheep Leas. Photograph © Jens H. Petersen
Fig 3 Chaenothecopsis caespitosa from Yew (Taxus baccata) on Box Hill (see text). Photograph © Jens H. Petersen
Fig 2 Plectania melastoma. Found on Erica cinerea and Calluna vulgaris on MilfordjWitley Commons (see text). Photograph © Jens H. Petersen
Fig 4 Glyphium elatum. From bark of Willow (Salix sp.) Ebernoe Common. Only 14 other records of this species are on the BMSFRD. Photograph © Jens H. Petersen
Melanoleuca strictipes, which was found with Calocybe gambosa under Crataegus on Witley Common, is only previously recorded from Mull and SE England. Plectania melastoma, which Ann Leonard found on Calluna and Erica on the sandstone sites the first records for these substrata on the BMS database; a striking looking 'Discomycete' (Fig 2). Chaenothecopsis caespitosa on Taxus baccata from Box Hill, a non lichenised member of this
genus and an exciting find for our Danish visitors (Fig 3). There are now 21 records of this on the BMS database.
Daldinia vernicosa (= D. gelatinosa according to T. Leessce) on burnt Ulex from Milford Common. Glyphium elatum on Salix from Ebernoe Common (Fig 4) - there are only six recent records of this species on the BMSFRD. Ernest E. Emmett