Cover Illustration
"EQVISETVM maius cum asparagis nouellis"- woodcut of Great
Horsetail Equisetum telmateia in Matthias de Lobel's Plantarum
seu Stirpium Historia of 1576 (see pp. 10-11) Cambridge University
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Contents of Volume 40 (1998)
Editorial Philip Oswald 2
A mare's-nest of horsetails: John Ray's treatment of "Equisetum"
in his Cambridge Catalogue (1660) (P.H. Oswald & C.D.
Preston) 2
A sighting of a 'Monarch' butterfly in Cambridgeshire (O.D.
Cheesman) 19
A provisional atlas of bush-crickets, grasshoppers
and allied insects in 'old' Cambridgeshire (Adrian Colston) 20
The Kingfisher's Bridge Wetland Creation Project:
a report from the project's inception to autunm 1996 (Stephen
Tomkins) 37
The identification and distribution of freshwater mussels in
the River Cam catchment (David Aldridge) 61
Isolepis setacea, a new plant for Wicken Fen? (Rosemary
Parslow) 69
Desmids (Algae, Chlorophyceae) from a Cambridgeshire footbridge
(Hilary Belcher & Erica Swale) 70
Moss that grows on skulls: a curious old remedy run to earth
in Cambridge (Hilary Belcher & Erica Swale) 74
Reviews:
- Plant Variation and Evolution (3rd edition) (H.L.K. Whitehouse)
76
- British Plant Communities Volumes 2-4 (Philip Oswald)
77
Fifty-three years in the Cambridge University Herbarium (Peter
Sell) 79
Obituary:
- John C. Faulkner (1904-1997) (Franklyn Perring) 83
Vascular plant records (G. Crompton & C. D. Preston) 84
Bryophyte records (C.D. Preston & H.L.K. Whitehouse) 85
Weather notes for Cambridgeshire 1997 (J. W. Clarke) 87
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