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V. cARPATicA Borbas in Koch's Synopsis, ed. iii. p. 222 (1892); 

 Baker fil. Journ. Bot. 1901, p. 10. Tlie British habitat is Cocker- 

 ham Peat Moss, West Lancashire. I have noted other gatherings 

 from this county which are very closely allied to this species — as, 

 for instance, a plant gathered by the Rev. E. S. Marshall near 

 Sandling Park, East Kent, no. 1345. 



]\ polychioma Kerner is allied to V. carpatica Borbas, but differs 

 in the broader lamina of the leaf. 



In the limitation of the group of V. saxatUis I have ventured to 

 differ slightly from MM. Rouy & Foucaud in their recent Flora— 

 thus, for instance, Y. contnnpta Jordan, whicli was recorded many 

 years ago on the authority of M. Boreau from cornfields near Thirsk, 

 seems better placed with certain of its allies not in the present group, 

 but in that of which the representative species is V. tricolor L. 

 (sensu stricto). There are other continental described species and 

 varieties belonging to this group which it is only necessary to 

 briefly mention. They have never been recorded as growing in 

 this country. 



V. polychroma Kerner, already mentioned, and V. tricolor L. var. 

 perrobusta Borb. Magyar Nov. Lap. 1888, p. 18, is stated by Borbas 

 (in Koch, Synopsis, ed. 3, i. 221) to be " V. lutea—> tricolor ^ It 

 has tricoloured flowers, and is allied to V. tricolor by its stipules, 

 and is only known from Upper Hungary. 



I have to tender my best thanks to Messrs. H. Groves, W. A. 

 Shoolbred, and G. C. Druce for the loan of the pansies from their 

 herbaria. 



KENT MOSSES. 



By E. M. Holmes, F.L.S. 



(Concluded from p. 182.) 



The following list includes additional localities for species already 

 recorded for the county of Kent, and also a few species new to the 

 county, the names of which have been received, since the last paper 

 was pubUshed, from Mr. L. J. Cocks, of Bromley Hill, to whom the 

 initials L. J. C. in the text refer. The initials E. G. refer to the 

 late Mr. Edward George, of Forest Hill, whose collection is now, I 

 beheve, in the possession of the Horniman Museum. A few species 

 new to the county, added since the last list was published, are indi- 

 cated by an asterisk. 



Where the generic name has been altered, since the publication 

 of the list of mosses in the Journal of Botany in 1877, the name 

 then in use follows in parenthesis the name now used. In this 

 list the order given in Dixon's Handbook of British Mosses has been 

 followed. 



Sphagnum cipnbifolium Ehrh. Bedgebury Wood, Goudhurst, J. S. 

 — Var. 7 conge'stiim Schimp. Kilndown Wood, Goudhurst, J.S. — 

 S. subsecimdum Nees. Louisa Lake, Bedgebury Wood, J. /S.— Var. 

 contortum Schimp. Bedgebury Wood, J. S. — S. squarroswn, Pers, 



