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Physiologie,' ix., p. 168 ; in ' Flora,' 1842, ii. ; ' Bieblatter,' p. 11 ; 

 * Cat. Hort. Bogor.,' p. 58; and 'Plant. Jav. Ear.,' p. 155 (ex- 

 cluding synonym). R. j^initata, Schott, in ' Bonplandia,' 1857, v., 

 p. 45; 'Prod. Aroid.,' p. 384!; Bentham, 'Flora Australiensis,' 

 vii., p. 156. Pi. vitiensis, Schott, in 'Boni^landia,' 1861, ix., p. 367! ; 

 and in Seemann's ' Flora Vitiensis,' p. 286 ! H. pertusa, var. 

 vitiensis, Engier, in DC. ' Monog. Plianerog.,' ii., p. 244 ! ; R. Cun- 

 ninyliami, Schott, in 'Bonplandia,' 1861,' ix., j). 367 (most jiro- 

 bably). Pothos innnata, L., ' Sp, Plant.,' ed. 2., ii., p. 1374 

 (Rumphius, 'Fl. Amboinensis,' v., p. 489, t= 183, f. 2); Roxb., 

 ' Fl. Ind.' (ed. 1820), i., p. 456!; Willd., ' Sp. Plant,' i., 

 pt. 2. p. 686. Scindcq)sus deciirsivus, Zoll., ' PI. Jav.,' p. 82, 

 No. 569 ! ^S*. pinnatiis, Schott, ' Melet.,' i., p. 21 ! ; Decaisne, 

 ' Descr. Herb. Timor.,' p. 39 ; Kunth, ' Enum. PI,' iii., p. 63; and 

 probably also Pihaphidophora pinnatifida, Schott, in ' Bonplandia,' 

 1857, v., p. 45 ; ' Prod. Aroid.,' j). 384. Scindapsus pinnatijidus, 

 Schott, 'Melet.,' i., p. 21; Kunth, 'Enum. PI.,' iii., p. 63. Pothos 

 jnnnatifida, Eoxb., ' Fl. Ind.' (ed. 1820j, i., p. 476. 



Widely distributed, inhabiting Java, Baly, Amboina, Timor, 

 Fiji Islands, Tropical Australia, and in the Kew Herbarium is a 

 sj)ecimen of what I take to be the same species from Whampoa, 

 China (Hance, no. 15,600.) 



ZYGODON FOESTEEI, Mitten, IN ESSEX. 

 By E. M. Holmes, F.L.S. 



On the occasion of the annual Fungus Foray in Epping Forest, 

 on the 23rd of October last, I met with this rare moss in fructifica- 

 tion ; and "as its occurrence in Essex has hitherto been only 

 conjectural, its rediscovery in that county seems worthy of record. 



In Wilson's ' Bryologia Brit.,' p. 194, Walthamstow and Sussex 

 are mentioned as two localities in which it had been found. A 

 much more correct account might have been given had Mr. Wilson 

 not ignored Mr. Mitten's remarks, published four years previously, 

 in the 'Annals and Magazine of Natural History' for 1851 (2nd 

 series, viii., 322). 



The history of the discovery of this plant in Britain I believe 

 to be as follows : — Mr. T. F. Forster found a specimen of the plant 

 on a felled tree in a timber yard at Chapel End Lane, Walthamstow, 

 there being no record where the tree was obtained. The speci- 

 mens gathered by him were distributed to Dickson, Borrer, 

 Sir J. E. Smith, and others. One of these occurs in Dickson's 

 Herbarium, and another among the original specimens used for 

 'English Botany,' both of which collections are in the Botanical 

 Department of the British Museum ; but neither of these specimens 

 bear any date on the label. A third specimen exists in Mr. Borrer's 

 Herbarium at Kew. The plant must, however, have been collected 

 XDreviously to 1794, as Dickson's 'Fasciculi' were published in that 

 year. There are no specimens of the plant in Wilson's Herbarium 



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