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BARTRAMIACEAE.
*Bartramia pomiformis Hedw.
By the roadside between Woodford Wells and the
Bald-faced Stag (2) !; Epping Forest (11) !; side of
the Theydon Road (11) !; N. Essex (14); near Chelms-
ford (7); Hatfield Peverel (14) !!; Springfield !!;
Little Waltham !!; Woodham Walter !!; Great
Totham (14); Tiptree (14); Pod's Wood Lane (8) !;
Stanstead (2) !
*Philonotis fontana Brid.
Epping Forest (11) !; Theydon Bois and Loughton
Road (11) !; near Chelmsford (7); Galleywood
Common (8) !!; West Bergholt Heath (8) !
BRYACEAE.
*Leptobryum pyriforme Wils.
N. Essex (14); Chelmsford !!; on the brick of a
culvert, Feering (8) !
*Webera nutans Hedw.
Old gravel pits and damp heaths, Epping Forest
(11) !; Epping Lower Forest (11) !; Leyton ! !
Theydon !!; wood near Warley (8) !; nr. Chelmsford
(7) !!; Woodham Walter Common (8) !; Braxted (8) !
*var. longiseta Br. and Schimp.
Epping Forest (11) !
*W. annotina Schwaegr.
"In woods, fallow fields, &c., and barren in shady
places in the garden, Walthamstow" (2) ! "In this
species are a number of red substances like berries in
the alae of the leaves and about the stalk. They first
appeared bright green." Edwd. Forster.
Mr. English says "found in damp places in the Stump
Road, Epping Lower Forest, fruit scarce," but all the
specimens I have seen of his collecting so labelled
belong to W. nutans.
*W. carnea Schimp.
Hale End (2) !; "on a tree near the great bog on the
Forest" (2) !; Theydon (11) !; Hazeleigh (13); pond
near Barnes' Mill, Springfield (7); Pleshey !!; Kelve-
don (8) !; Marks Hall (8) !