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Fl. Timhr. Swanscombe Wood, near Greenliithe, in fruit. 

 Joyclen's Wood, in fruit in November. 



Blasia pusn^LA, L. Junfjermannia Blasia, Hook. 



On wet sandy ground occasionally inundated, and on the sides 



of iDools on heaths. March, April. Brit. Jung. t. 82-84. 

 In plenty in the lane on the left-hand side of the road leading 

 from Langton Green to Speldhurst Church, near the 

 Dropping Spring ; scarce. Forster Fl. Tunbr. " I gathered 

 it in 1841, in the wet part of the lane near the burying- 

 ground, between Langton Green and Ashurst;" Jenner 

 FL Tunbr. 

 With regard to this plant, Forster makes the following curious 

 remark in a foot-note in ' Fl. Tunbr.' p. 141. "The duration of 

 this plant being so short, not lasting a month from the time of its 

 first ai3j)earance to its fading away, may be the cause of its fancied 

 scarcity." The duration of the fructification must be here intended, 

 as the plant is a perennial. In the barren state this may be 

 recognized by its fleshy narrow fronds and the striated appear- 

 ance of then' upx^er surface, also by the toothed scales on the 

 under surface of the nerve and within the incurved tips of the 

 fronds. The capsule difters from that of Pellia epvphylla in being 

 brown. 

 Pelll-^ epiphylla, Ficiddi. Jungermannia epijjhylla, Mohr. 



In shady wet places and banks of rivulets. February, April. 



Brit. Jung. 47. Cooke Brit. Hepat. f. 171. 

 About Woolwich ; Fl. Metr. Near Speldlnu'st ; Forster Fl. 

 Tunbr. Southborough ; Fawcett ! Canterbury ; Sandwich ; 

 Dover. 

 P. calycinAj Taylor. Lichenastrum capituUs rotimdis e foUorum 

 medio evascentibiis, Bay Syn. iii. Jungermannia epiphylla, 

 var. y. furcigera, Hook. 

 In dripping x^laces and on sides of ditches ; not observed in 

 fruit. February, March. Brit. Jung. t. 47, fig. 18. Cooke 

 Brit. Hepat. fig. 172. 

 About Woolwich ; Fiay Syn. in. p. 110, n. 3. Hungershall 

 Bocks ; Jenner Fl. Tiinbr. Southborough ; Fawcett ! Damp 

 spot in a lane between Dunk's Green and Rats Castle, near 

 Hadlow ; Bexley. 

 A narrow form is abundant in the springs by the road- 

 side between Aylesford and Maidstone, and at Tovil, near 

 Maidstone. 

 Metzgeria furcata, Dumort. Jungermannia furcata, L. 



On trunks of trees, bushes, and oil shady rocks ; very common. 

 October to March. Not observed in fructification. Brit. 

 Jung. t. 55, 56. Cooke Brit. Hepat. fig. 180, 181. 

 Knockholt ; George ! Southborough ; Fawcett. Penshurst ; 

 Ightham ; Dover. In Great Stockham Wood, on Dunton 

 Green, with gemms, abundantly. 

 Usually fruits on the shady side of trees in damp localities. 



