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THE MOSS FLORA OF SUFFOLK. 



By the Eev. E. N. Bloomfield, M.A. 



Since writing the paper under the above title in this Journal for 

 1885, pp. 233-238, I have obtained much additional information 

 which it may be well to put on record. 



On sending a copy to Sir Charles Bunbury, of Barton Hall, near 

 Bury St. Edmunds, he wrote, " Mr. Eagle's collection of which you 

 speak is now in my possession, having been bought by my father 

 after Mr. Eagle's death, and I have incorporated it with my own."* 



My friend, the Eev. W. M. Hind, has carefully examined Sir 

 Charles Moss's Herbarium, and has sent me a list of all the Suffolk 

 species contained in it, with their localities. Several of Mr. Eagle's 

 Suffolk specimens have notes and drawings appended by Mr. W. 

 Wilson (the author of the ' Bryologia Britannica'), while the names 

 of others have been corrected by him. Besides this, Mrs. Skepper, 

 of Bury St. Edmunds, has very kindly forwarded me over twenty 

 letters from Mr. Wilson to Mr. F. K. Eagle, ranging from 1842 to 

 1855, which throw light on many of the specimens in Mr. Eagle's 

 collection. I shall therefore quote freely from these letters. 



Sir C. Bunbury died at Barton in 1886. He has left his Her- 

 barium to the University of Cambridge, but it will, I believe, 

 remain for the present in Lady Bunbury's possession at Mildenhall. 



I propose to incorporate with this supplementary list the addi- 

 tions made to the Moss Flora of the county by Mr. H. N. Dixon, 

 m the Journal for 1885, p. 811, and for 1886, p. 283. He very 

 kindly sent me specimens of most of these additions which have been 

 examined and confirmed by Mr. Boswell, who kindly looked them 

 over, as he had done my former Suffolk specimens. 



Mr. Eagle's species are given on his own authority, except so 

 fer as they are confirmed by Mr. W. Wilson ; while Sir C. 

 Bunbury's specimens were doubtless named by himself after com- 

 parison with specimens from Messrs. Dickson, Turner, &c. 



I have employed as far as possible the nomenclature of the 

 London Catalogue of ' Mosses and Hepatics.' 



In order to indicate the distribution, I have added E. East 



Lound, 



W. West 



^y former paper. 



Sphagnum cymbifoliam « — -, 



U, M. Dixon, e. 



r Systegium crismim Hedw. Barton, Sir C. B. Newmarket Heath, 



%fe. W. 



* "I have long had great pleasure in the study of Mosses, and **™J^ 

 J* : l them in various countries^ Mr. Eagle's collection, which I ha« inco po- 

 JJ I with my own is, I believe, rich as a British collection, for Mr. ^***J 

 Reived a great number of species from Dickson D*™*>?™";^^ 

 ^7 authorities, as well as from Sir William Hooker, and at a later ti mefiram 

 * ; Wilson, of Warrington ; moreover Ifc Eagle continued WMw£^fe 

 f collect from time to time, whenever he had an opportunity and. especially 

 Suffolk -Extract from Letter of Sir 0. Bunbury, October 1st, 1885. 



