THE
ESSEX NATURALIST:
BEING THE
Journal of the Essex Field Club
FOR 1891.
THE CRYPTOGAMIC FLORA OF KELVEDON
AND ITS NEIGHBOURHOOD, TOGETHER
WITH A FEW COAST SPECIES; COMPILED
FROM THE HERBARIUM AND NOTES
MADE BY THE LATE E. G. VARENNE,
M.R.C.S.
By E. D. MARQUAND
[Read February 28th, 1891].
THE following lists have been carefully compiled from the collec-
tions, notes, and memoranda made during a period of over
forty years by my valued friend, the late Mr. E. G. Varenne, surgeon,
of Kelvedon, who died on the 22nd of April, 1887, at the age of
seventy-five.1 As a contribution to the Cryptogamic Flora of the
county of Essex, so far as at present known, these lists cannot fail
to be of great interest and value, since they embody the labours of
an acute botanist whose researches in this department of science
have never yet been published.
Although possessing a wide practical acquaintance with all sec-
tions of plant life, it was as a lichenologist that Mr. Varenne excelled ;
the lichens were to him especial favourites, and of these he had, by
a lifetime of study, acquired a critical knowledge surpassed by very
few British botanists. His last work was the compilation of the
lichen list which follows, the introductory preface to which unhappily
remains in too rudimentary a condition to be available for the pur-
poses of this paper.
1 A short memoir of Mr. Varenne (with portrait) by Prof. Boulger, is printed in the present
volume.—Ed.
B