THE CRYPTOGAMIC FLORA OF KENT. 117 



ima passim sesquipollicaria. Fanicula mascula flores in glomerulis 

 gereiis, opposite ramosa, spithamaea nisi longior ; rami sive pedim- 

 culi compressi, i)i'iuium subtiliter puberuli, demum glabrescentes. 

 Glomeruli capitiiliformes, multiflori, solitarii vel 3-5 conferti. 

 BractecB imcE 4 et geminate oppositcn, cuiqiie glomerulo generali arete 

 suppositaB, puberulae, deltoideo-cordat^, 1-1^^' metientes. Glome- 

 ruli secundarii bracteis pauciseriate imbricatis ovatis vel lanceolatis 

 puberulis ^-1"' longis suffulti et aliis interspersis muniti. Flores 

 inter bracteas sessiles vel jDedicello usque ad lineam longo pertenui 

 praediti. Sei)ala 4, rliombeo- vel lanceolato-ovata, extus breviter 

 appresso-pilosula. Petala 4, ^stivatione imbricata calycem fere 

 semisuperantia, ovalia, sessilia, membranea, albida, uninervia, 

 exappendiculata, vix liueam longa, extus parve et perbreviter 

 puberula. Stamina octo, breviter exserta, sepalina petalinis paulo 

 longiora ; filamenta caiDillari-linearia ; antherae pallide flavae, vix 

 ^'" longae, cordato-ovatae, prope basim dorsifixae, longitudinaliter 

 dehiscentes. Pollinis granula laevia, ellipsoidea, rimulis longi- 

 tudinalibus aperta, circiter -00112'' longa, -00053'' lata, made- 

 factione ovato-sphaerica. Germinis rudimentum astyle pilosulum. 

 It will be observed that the male flowers tend to confirm the 

 affinity of Blepharocarya to Dohinea, and that the extraordinary 

 character of the female inflorescence finds to some extent, though 

 on a small scale, a repetition m the staminate flowers also. 



Melbourne, 12th December, 1878. 



THE CRYPTOGAMIO FLOKA OF KEl^T— FUNGI. 



By T. Howse, F. L. S. 



(Continued from p. 74.) 



Subgenus 9. — Fleurotus. 

 Agaricus dryinus, p. Huss., ii., t. 29, 33. 

 Hayes, Huss. 



A. osTREATUS, Jacq. Huss., ii., t. 19. 



Sydenham Hill; Bromley, Simrkes ; Hayes, Huss. 



Edible. 

 A. EUosMUS, Berk. Huss., i., t. 75. 



Hayes, Huss. ; West Wickham, 



Spores pinkish. 

 A. ALGiDus, Fr. Fl. Dan., t. 1552, f. 1 ; t. 1556, f. 2. 



On a mountain-ash in garden, Sydenham Hill. 



A. CORTICATUS, Fr. 



Staplehurst, J. Ward. 

 A. TREMULUs, Schmf. Sow., t. 242. 



Woods near Langton Green, Herb. Deakin. 



A. HYPNOPHILUS, p. 



Joyden's Wood, Bexley, Holmes. 



