64 SHORT NOTES. 



RiccARDiA MULTiFiDA, Gvaij, Jungeiincuuiia multifida, L. Aneura 

 multijida, Dum. 



On damp clayey bauks and on the sides of ditches ; fre- 

 quent. January to March. Brit. Jung. t. 45. E. B. 

 186. 



Charlton Wood ; FI. Metr. Near the Dropping Spring in the 

 lane on the left-hand side of the road from Langton 

 Green to Speldhurst Church ; Furster Fl. Tunhr. Charlton, 

 near the quarry ; Crofton Wood, near Orpington ; Sand- 

 wich ; Dover ; Tunbridge Wells ; between Tunbridge Wells 

 and Speldhurst, in fi"uit. 



R. piNGUis, Gray. Jungerrnamiia jnnguis, L. Aneura jnnguis, Dum. 

 Wet marshy spots and places inundated in winter. February, 

 March. Brit. Jung. t. 46. Cooke Brit. Hepat. fig. 

 174. 

 Charlton Wood ; Fl. Metr. In a wet part of the large quarry 

 near Charlton Station, abundantly in fruit ; in company 

 with Fellia epiphyUa. 

 Easily distmguished from PelUa epiphyUa, which has a sphe- 

 rical green capsule, by its black oblong capsule and long tubular 

 calyptra ; from P. calycina by the absence of a nerve. 



Anthoceeos punctatus, L. 



In damp fallow fields and on ditch-banks, &c. July, August. 



E. B. t. 1537. Cooke Brit. Hepat. fig. 194. 

 Banks of Woolwich Heath, in moist shady places (Dillenius) ; 



Bot. Guide. In the little lane from Rusthall Common 



to the High Rocks ; Forster Fl. Tunhr. 



A. L^vis, L. 



On damp clay-banks, often growing with A. prmctatus. July, 



August. Cooke Brit. Hepat. fig. 193. 

 On the rocks in the lane leading from Rusthall Common to 



Speldhurst Church ; Forster Fl. Tunhr. 

 A. punctatus may be distmguished by the papillose surface of 

 the frond and by the darker spores from A. lavis, which has fronds 

 smooth on the upper surface and yellowish spores. The lobes of 

 the thallus in the latter species are also rather thicker and more 

 rounded m outline. 



fTo he continued.) 



SHORT NOTES. 



PoLYGALA CALCAREA IN BucKs. — In the collectiou of British 

 plants presented by Miss Chandler to the British Museum Her- 

 barium there is a well-marked specimen of this plant on the same 

 sheet with F. culyaris, collected at Hughenden m June, 1865. 

 The species has not previously been recorded for the county. — 

 James Britten. 



