84 THE COMING OF AGE OF
flowering of Lemna gibba in Wanstead Park." (Proc. III., xlviii.),
Mr. E. M. Holmes' notes on the occurrence of the rare moss,
Zygodon forsteri, Mitten, in Epping Forest (Ibid. lxii.; from
Journ, of Botany for Nov., 1882) and on a new British Alga
(Vaucheria sphaerospora) 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 Hymenomycetal 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—Ustilaginei and Aecidiomycetes" 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. XL, 313). A list of the
Fresh-water Algae of the Forest was communicated by Dr.
Coolie in 1883 (Proc, 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 (VII.,
170). The lichens of Epping Forest were catalogued in 1883 by
the Rev. J. M. Crombie (Trans. IV., 54). In 1890 the annual