236 THE CRYPTOGAMIC FL')RA OF KENT. 



3314. Leaves longer and narrower than in the last, similar in 

 texture, linear, minutely toothed, narrowed to the point, half an 

 inch to five-eighths of an inch hroad at the middle, narrowed to a 

 quarter of an inch above the dilated base. Scape half a foot long, 

 quite hidden by its large lanceolate imbricated bract-leaves. Head 

 overtopped by a whorl of lanceolate toothed red-tinted acuminate 

 chartaceous bract -leaves three to four inches long.] 



57. M. Legrelliana, BaJxer. Hohenheiyia Lc(/reUiana, Baker 

 in Eef. Bot., t. 285. Orti/icsia palUolata, E. Morren, Cat., 1871, 

 2. — Leaves about twenty in a rosette, horny in texture, about a 

 foot long, narrowed gradually from a utricular base one inch and a 

 half to two inches broad to an acuminate point, lanceolate, about 

 an inch broad at the middle, the teeth half a line to one line long. 

 Scape central, half a foot long, quite hidden by its crowded 

 lanceolate-acuminate horny leaves. Flowers twelve to twenty in a 

 dense oblong s^Dike about three inches long and above an inch in 

 diameter. Flower-bracts lanceolate-acuminate, bright red, mi- 

 nutely tooth, as long as the ovary. Calyx with ovary an inch long ; 

 sepals lanceolate, distinctly cuspidate, united in a tube above the 

 ovary. Petals Ungulate, red-purple, obtuse, a quarter of an inch 

 longer than the sepals. — South America, the exact country not 

 known. Litroduced into cultivation about 1865. 



58. M. Ortgiesh, Baker. Ort/jiesia tiUandsioides, Eegel. Gartenfl., 

 xvi., 193, t. 547. — Leaves twenty to thirty to a rosette, horny in 

 texture, lanceolate, seven to eight inches long, narrowed gradually 

 from an entire utricular deltoid base one inch and a half broad to 

 an acuminate point, eight to nine lines broad two-thii'ds of the way 

 down, the edge furnished with minute rather curved horny 

 lanceolate teeth. Scape central, very short. Flowers in a dense 

 oblong head. Flower-bracts lanceolate-acuminate, toothed, one 

 inch and a half to one inch and three-quarters long. Calyx 

 including ovary fifteen to eighteen lines long. Se^Dals oblong, with 

 a large mucro, united in a tube above the top of the ovary. Petals 

 Ungulate, red-purple, scarcely exserted beyond the sepals. — South 

 America, the j)recise country not known. Introduced into cultiva- 

 tion about 1860. Var. subcrserta , Kegel, loc. cit., is a form with a 

 longer peduncle than in the type. 



THE CRYPTOCtAMIC FLOBA OF KENT— 7^r;A7^7. 

 By T. Howse, F.L.S. 



(Coutinued from p. 211.) 

 Genus 18. — Strobilomyces, J>, 

 S. STROBH^ACEus, B. Ki'omb., t. 74, f. 12, 13. 

 Kiiowle Park, Sevenoaks, C. ]\. Broomr. 



Genus 19. — Polyporus, Fr. 

 P. ScHWEiNiTzii, Fr. Sv. Bot., t. 720. 



Amongst the roots of ^Dines. Goudhurst, A. S. Bicknell. 



