Volume 40 (1998) [Download PDF: 9.0 MB]

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
• Cambridgeshire myxomycetes revisited (Bruce Ing) 53
• 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