The floating liverworts of Essex TQ(51)49 473,927 18 Hoghill Pond, Hainault. 1800. Edward Forster. Essex Naturalist 22:76. 47 ,95 ? 18 Floating in a pond between Abridge and Lambourne, 22 July 1883. (Note penned in the margin of a reprint of the Hepatics of Suffolk Journal ofBotany 1885) 457,944 18 Muddy bottom of hoof-holcd dried up bottom of small cattle drinking pond, in mats with Riccia fluitans, by west side of Pudding Lane, Chigwell, 1970. Kenneth J Adams (this pond, one of two together, was infilled in 1979, site now built on). 42 ,92 18 Pond by Luxborough Lane, Chigwell, 1917. P J Thompson. In two ponds by Luxborough Lane, Chigwell, plentiful. 1926. D J Scourfield. Disappeared from Luxborough Lane, 'some small ponds by the lane, for long the only recorded station in Essex, were searched in vain' 1932. Essex Nat. 24 p.54. Found on a foray, 'new to Epping Forest' by D J Scourfield, 1930. Essex Naturalist 23 ppl40 & 142. Lower (Lesser?) Wake Valley Pond, 1 942. J H G Peterken. Floating in a pond with Lemna trisulca and L. minor, Epping Forest. VC18 14 March l942. BBS Herbarium. National Museum of Wales. Cardiff. 419,985 18 The Bomb Crater Pond, Monk Wood, Epping Forest, 1959. Eric Saunders and Bernard Tavener Ward. 415,967 18 Earl's Path Pond, Epping Forest, 16 October 1960 'fairly plentiful, southern margin', David T Streeter, Kenneth J Adams et al. (Queen Mary College Field Trip). Earl's Path Pond, persisted until 1976 when the pond was scoured out down to the gravel base having dried up completely during an exceptional drought. Most of the silt was removed changing the character of the pond. According to Sylvia Boyd- Andrews a few thalli resurfaced in early June 1 977 following the clean out, but they have not appeared since (2003) Kenneth J Adams. 144 Essex Naturalist (New Series) 21 (2004)