2 THE CRYPTOGAMIC FLORA OF KELVEDON 



The Other Hsts I have prepared from a thorough examination of 

 the specimens in his extensive herbarium (so far as they relate to the 

 county of Essex) and also from the copious notes in his own neat 

 hand-writing in the text-books he used. In numbers of cases two or 

 more gatherings of the same species were made in the same locality 

 at different dates ; but I have not considered it needful to give more 

 than one of these, and that always the earliest. 



The number of cryptogams now recorded is as follows : Mosses, 

 i6o species and lo varieties; Hepaticae, 22 species; Lichens, 208 

 species and 141 varieties and forms" ; Fungi, 136 species ; Seaweeds, 

 36 species ; Fresh-water Algae, 129 species : amounting in all to 842. 



As regards the names and classification here adopted the mosses 

 and hepaticae follow the order of the second edition of the " London 

 Catalogue" (1880) ; the lichens, Leighton's " Lichen Flora," third 

 edition (1879) ; the fungi, Cooke's "Handbook of British Fungi" 

 (187 1 ) ; the seaweeds, Harvey's " Manual of British Marine Algae " 

 (1849), ''^"d the remaining section Hassall's "History of the British 

 Fresh-water Algae " (1845). I" the last case I am well aware that 

 the nomenclature is in a great measure obsolete ; but as the list 

 is mainly drawn up from marginal notes in Mr. Varenne's copy of 

 Hassall, I have not ventured upon any attempt to modernise it — ■ 

 which indeed would have been a task presenting considerable diffi- 

 culty, and might have led to serious error. 



Although some of the stations indicated in the lists lie beyond 

 the neighbourhood of Kelvedon, strictly so called, the great bulk of 

 the localities are situated in that region of the county of which 

 Kelvedon forms the centre, and therefore I trust that no very grave 

 inaccuracy has been committed in giving to this paper its present 

 title. 



The cryptogams of Essex form only a portion, though naturally the 

 most important one, of Mr. Varenne's extensive botanical collections, 

 the whole of which are now in my possession. Wherever he went for 

 his annual outing he brought home stores of gatherings for future 

 study. Dartmoor he knew well botanically, and his manuscript lists 

 of the mosses, hepaticae and lichens he collected there are very full 

 and valuable. West Cornwall he knew even better than Dartmoor ; 

 and during his repeated visits to Penzance it was my privilege to 

 accompany him in his rambles over the rugged earns and breezy 



2 In the Rev. J. M. Crombie's paper on the " Lichen Flor.i of Epping Forest, and the 

 Causes affecting its Recent Diminution" (Trans. Essex Field Club, vol. iv., pp. 54-75), only 

 136 species and 28 " forms " of lichens are recorded from the forest districts. — Eu. 



