84 THE COMING OF AGE OF 



flowering oi Lemna gibha in Wanstead Park." {Proc. III., xlviii.), 

 Mr. E. M. Holmes' notes on the occurrence of the rare moss, 

 Zygodon fovsteri, Mitten, in Epping Forest (Ibid. Ixii. ; from 

 Joiirn. of Botany for Nov., 1882) and on a new British Alga 

 (Vaucheria spha^rospora) found near Maldon (Essex Naturalist, 

 I., 151), Mr. Joseph Clarke's paper on some plants peculiar to 

 Essex and on some plants of Saffron Walden and neighbour- 

 hood (Ibid. III., 274) and Mr, Robert Paulson's notes on the 

 Carices of the Epping Forest area (Ibid. IV., 135). 



Since in Gibson's Flora of Essex we have already a standard 

 work on the Flora of the County, it may be considered that all 

 the local lists and records scattered throughout our pages are 

 additions and corrections to or emendations of statements in that 

 well-known work. Looking through our pages one cannot but 

 be struck with the large share of attention bestowed upon the 

 cryptogamic plants of our County. This is, doubtless, due to 

 the popularity of these plants as subjects of study and perhaps 

 no less to the circumstance that from the very beginning of our 

 career we have had the invaluable co-operation, advice and 

 assistance of Dr. M. C. Cooke and other distinguished mycolo- 

 gists, while the unrivalled keenness as a collector of the late 

 James English, of Epping, has helped to enrich our lists of 

 Epping Forest species by many notable additions. The first 

 " Preliminary List of the Hjmenomycetal Fungi of Epping 

 Forest,' by Dr. Cooke and Mr. English appeared in 1881 

 (Trans. II., 181) ; Cooke's " Preliminary List of the Microscopic 

 Fungi of Essex — ■ Jstilaginei and .^cidiomycetes " in 1887 

 (Essex Naturalist, I., 184) ; his list of Discomycetes in 1888 

 (Ibid. II., 189) and his catalogue of the Hymenomycetal Fungi 

 of Epping Forest in 1889 {ibid. III., 248). Since this last- 

 named list hardly a year has passed without some additions 

 being announced at our annual " Fungus-forays," the species 

 observed at the foray of 1900 having formed the subject of a 

 paper by Mr. G. Massee, and comprising two species new to 

 Britain and several new to Essex (Ibid. XI., 313). A list of the 

 Fresh-water Algae of the Forest was communicated by Dr. 

 CooLe in 1883 {P^oc, IV., xlvii.) and a complete preliminary 

 catalogue of species recorded in Essex generally was published 

 by the same author in the Essex Naturalist in 1893 (^II*? 

 170). The lichens of Epping Forest were catalogued in 1883 by 

 the Rev. J. M. Crombie (Trans. IV., 54). In 1890 the annual 



