ESSEX BRYOPHYTA NOTES
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Seal Phoca vitulina L. Very occasionally Seals (presumably
this species, which is the most common one in the southern
North Sea) have been seen. One was seen below the dam
in 1957 (E.F.W.).
This list is to the best of my knowledge complete to date,
but it will certainly be added to in time. There are a number of
species not reported so far which might reasonably be expected
to live on, or visit, the island. Chief amongst these are the bats,
two kinds of which have been seen but not identified. One seen
and heard flying high overhead in July 1959, was probably a
Noctule (Nyctalus noctula (Schreber)), and a smaller bat seen
around the bungalow and hedgerow was doubtfully identified
as a Pipistrelle (Pipistrellus pipistrellus (Schreber)).
Essex Bryophyte Notes for 1960
By Eric Saunders
The dry conditions of 1959 were not repeated during 1960
and the very wet autumn and delayed ploughing produced an
excellent crop of the minute bryophytes of stubble fields, mainly
from the area around Saffron Walden in N.W. Essex (Vice-county
19), where in places the chalk is exposed naturally at the surface.
New species for Essex from these regions include : —
Mosses
Ditrichum cylindricum (Hedw.) Grout from stubble fields at
Audley End, Nov. 1960, v.c. 19.
Phascum floerkeanum Web. & Mohr from stubble fields at Little-
bury, Oct, 1960, v.c. 19.
Ephemerum recurvifolium (Dicks.) Boul. from Stubble fields at
Audley End, Nov. 1960, v.c. 19.
Campylium sommerfeltii (Myr.) Bryhn under beech trees at
Audley End, Nov. 1960, v.c. 19.
Barbula convoluta Hedw. var. commutata (Jur.) Husnot under
beech trees at Audley End, Nov. 1960, v.c. 19.
Pottia bryoides (Dicks.) Mitt, from stubble field near Duddenhoe
End, Dec. 1960, v.c. 19.
Pohlia proligera Lindb. from roadside near Takeley, Sept. 1960,
v.c. 19.
Liverworts
Anthoceros punctatus L. from newly made road embankment
near Quendon, Dec. 1960, v.c. 19.
Lophozia bicrenata (Schmid.) Dum. from sandpit near Wicken
Bonhunt, June 1960, v.c. 19 (A.J.P. & E.S.).