BOTANY 



FILICES (continued?) 



Athyrium Filix-foemina, Roth 14 



Ceterach officinarum, Willd. 3 



Phyllitis Scolopendrium, Greene (Scolopendrium 



vulgare, Symons) 13 

 Cystopteris fragilis, Bernh. i, z 

 Polystichum lobatum, Presl. 13 

 b. aculeatum, Syme 1-4 



angulare, Presl. 



Lastrea Thelypteris, Presl. 2 



Oreopteris, Presl. z 



Filix-mas, Presl. 14 



b. affinis, Bab. 



cr is tat a, Presl. z 



uliginosa, Newm. z 



spinulosa, Presl. 14 



dilatata, Presl. 1-4 



b. tanacetifolia, Moore I 



f. dumetorum, Moore I (?), 2 



d. collina, Bab. i, 4 



FILICES (continued') 



Polypodium vulgare, L. 1-4 

 Osmunda regalis, L. i (?) 4 

 Ophioglossum vulgatum, L. i, 3, 4 

 Botrychium Lunaria, Sw. 1-3 



EQUISETACEAE 



Equisetum maximum, Lam. 13 



arvense, L. 14 



sylvaticum, L. 3 



palustre, L. 13 



limosum, L. 3 



b. fluviatile, L. 2 



hyemale, L. i, 3 



LYCOPODIACEAE 



Lycopodium Selago, L. z 



inundatum, L. z 



clavatum, L. z 



MOSSES 



The earliest references to the mosses of Nottinghamshire occur in 

 the second edition of Ray's Synopsis, published in 1696. In this work 

 Ray describes for the first time as British species Aulacomnium androgynum 

 and Encalypta vulgaris, which had been sent to him by ' Mr. Pool, a 

 mercer in Nottingham,' and ' a diligent enquirer into Natural History.' 

 Practically, however, the foundations of our knowledge of the moss flora 

 of the county were laid by Deering, whose Catalogus Stirpium, etc., 

 published in 1738, contains references to forty-three identifiable species. 

 Nearly all of these still occur, but two of them, Ptycbomitrium polyphyllum 

 and Ginclidotus fontinalioides, the first possibly a mistake, have not been 

 seen by any more recent observer. 



The Botanical Calendars by Thomas Jowett, which appeared in a 

 Nottingham newspaper during 1826, give localities for a large number of 

 mosses, including most of those mentioned by Deering. Among the 

 numerous species recorded for the first time was the so-called ' Luminous 

 Moss' (Scbistostega osmundacea)^ found abundantly in the sandstone caves 

 on Nottingham Forest, on a site now occupied by the Church Cemetery. 



About this time considerable interest seems to have been taken in 

 this group of plants, and in 1833 Dr. Howitt and Wm. Valentine, F.L.S., 

 commenced the publication of a work entitled Muscologia Nottinghamiensis, 

 consisting of dried specimens of mosses with descriptive text. Three 

 fasciculi, each containing eight species, were issued, but the work then 

 came to an abrupt termination. 



Six years later, in his Nottinghamshire Flora, Dr. Howitt enumerates 

 all the species then known to occur in the county, adding to the records 

 of Deering and Jowett a considerable number discovered by Valentine and 

 himself. Up to the present time this has remained practically the only 

 available source of information respecting the mosses of the county. 



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