THE 



ESSEX NATURALIST 



BEING THE 



Journal of tbc jBbqc^ Jficlb Club 



FOR 1891. 



THE CRYPTOGAMIC FLORA OF KELVEDON 

 AND ITS NEIGHBOURHOOD, TOGETHER 

 WITH A FEW COAST SPECIES; COMPILED 

 FROM THE HERBARIUM AND NOTES 

 MADE BY THE LATE E. G. VARENNE, 

 M.R.C.S. 



By E. D. MARQUAND, 

 [Kcoii Feb>uary zSth, i8gi\. 



'T^HE following lists have been carefully compiled from the collec- 

 -*■ tions, notes, and memoranda made during a period of over 

 forty years by my valued friend, the late Mr. E. G. Varenne, surgeon, 

 of Kelvedon, who died on the 22nd of April, 1887, at the age of 

 seventy-five.' As a contribution to the Cryptogamic Flora of the 

 county of Essex, so far as at present known, these lists cannot fail 

 to be of great interest and value, since they embody the labours of 

 an acute botanist whose researches in this department of science 

 have never yet been published. 



Although possessing a wide practical acquaintance with all sec- 

 tions of plant life, it was as a lichenologist that Mr. Varenne excelled ; 

 the lichens were to him especial favourites, and of these he had, by 

 a lifetime of study, acquired a critical knowledge surpassed by very 

 few British botanists. His last work was the compilation of the 

 lichen list which follows, the introductory preface to which unhappily 

 remains in too rudimentary a condition to be available for the pur- 

 poses of this paper. 



1 A short memoir of Mr. Varenne (with portrait) by Prof. Boiilger, is printed in the present 

 volume. — Ed. 



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