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proves on re-examination to belong to H, falcatum, 

 This species must for the present therefore be expunged 

 from the list.] 



Sub-genus Drepanium 



H. cupressiforme Linn. 



An exceedingly abundant and very variable species. 

 On trees in the forest very common (2) ! ; "on forest 

 near the bog and near the gravel pits " (2) ! ; wood, 

 near Hale End (2) ! ; Epping Forest (ir) ! ; Monk 

 Wood (13) ; Ley ton ! ! ; Theydon ! ! ; Carpenter's Wood, 

 Southend (16) ! ; N. Essex (14); Chelmsford (7) ! ! ; 

 Norton Heath ! ! ; Mill Green ! ! ; Kelvedon (8) ! ; Haze- 

 leigh (13); Chauntrey Wood, Witham (8)!; Tiptree 

 (8)!; Feering (8)!; Hatfield Forest (13); Saffron 

 Walden (9). 



vav. vcsupinatum Schimp. 



"In a wood near Hale End, Walthamstow " (2)! ; on 

 the Forest (2) ! ; N. Essex (14) ; Hatfield Forest (13) ; 

 nr. Quendon (2) ! ; Mill Green !! 



vav. filiform e Brid, 



" Trunk of a tree, Epping Lower Forest " (11) ; 

 Saffron Walden (9). 



vav. evicetovum Br. and Schimp. 

 N. Essex (14); Tiptree (8) ! 



vav. datum Br. and Schimp. 

 Maldon (19). 



H. molluscum Hedw. 



Epping Forest, Theydon and Coopersale. This pretty 

 moss cropped up after the lopping in quantity: the 

 third year after it had entirely disappeared (n)!; 

 nr. Chelmsford (7) ; Rivenhall (8) ! ; Hatfield Forest 

 (13) ; Saffron Walden (9). 

 Sub-genus Calliergon. 



H. stramineum Dicks. 



Walthamstow, near the Rising Sun ; a very curious 

 form ( 2 ) differing from the fell plant of the North of 

 England in its loosely arranged, less appressed leaves ! ! ; 

 Woodham Walter Common (8) ! ; West Bergholt 

 Heath (8) ! 



