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Hope ; and two Antlers of the Bed Deer (from an Essex park) from Mr.
C. Thomas.
The following were elected members of the Club:—Messrs. George
Andrews, Robert Foskett, and Rev. W. Mellor.
Mr. Lister remarked, referring to Mr. Hope's presentation, that the
Red-necked Grebe and the Great Crested Grebe had been seen during
the last few days on the lakes in Wanstead Park, and that Coots seemed
to be taking up their residence there.
Professor Boulger exhibited a specimen of Utricularia neglecta,
Lehmann, submitted to him by Mr. English from Theydon Garnon, Essex,
and made some remarks on its occurrence as a British plant, especially
in Essex, referring to the specimens in the British Museum Herbarium,
and to an article by Mr. P. M. Webb in the 'Journal of Botany' for
1876, p. 142. In the first edition of Professor Babington's 'Manual'
(1843) it is mentioned as likely to be found in Britain. In Mr. Gibson's
'Flora of Essex' (1862) it is stated that it has been confounded with
V. vulgaris, "and should be looked for." In the 'Journal of Botany'
for March, 1867, vol. v., p. 73, is the editorial announcement, "We have
been shown a specimen of this plant in the herbarium of the British
Museum, collected by the late Ed. Forster, in a gravel-pit in Henhault
Forest, Essex." The sheet of specimens referred to is labelled
"Utricularia vulgaris in a gravel-pit in Henhault Forest with Chara
translucens. Ed. Forster," and in pencil, by the Rev. W. W. Newbould,
"U. neglecta?" In April, 1867, this locality is repeated in the part of
' English Botany ' referring to the order Lentibulariaceae then issued,
with the addition by Mr. Syme that Mr. Wallis had collected the plant in
a pond near Newland's Wood, Broomfield, Essex, in 1837, as U. vulgaris
(vide Proc. of Botanical Society, 1839, p. 37). Later, in 1867, it was
recorded for Gloucestershire, and in 1870 Mr. Watson (Comp. Cyb. Brit.,
p. 549) records it also for Sussex, Surrey, Notts, Hants, Suffolk, and
Norfolk. In Mr. Darwin's ' Insectivorous Plants ' (1875), p. 395, it is
recorded as received from Mr. Ralfs, of Penzance, and in his article of
1876 Mr. Webb further records it for Kent and Lancashire, and mentions
another specimen in the British Museum Herbarium from the collection
of Sir John Hill (d. 1775). It is labelled "Hooded Water Millfoil.
Lentibularia. R. S. pag. 286. This is found in waters—as in a small
pond in the close on this side nr. Sr. John Tyrrell's great Fishpond, a
mile from Thorndon. It flowers in June." This is, therefore, the first
known record, and that in the ' Journal of Botany ' for 1867 the first true
record (i.e. under the proper name) in print.
Prof. Boulger also asked whether any Essex botanists could give
localities for the Greater Bladderwort (Utricularia vulgaris, L.) in the
county.
Mr. English said that U. vulgaris (or at least the form he had taken
for that species) formerly occurred in some old pits in Hill Hall Wood,
at the back of Gaynes Park, Theydon Garnon, Essex.