SHORT NOTES. 845 



L. iNCOMPTA, Borr. 



On trees ; not common. E. B. Supplt. 2699. 

 Near Hadlow. 



L. ALBO-ATRA [Hoffm.) 



On old elm trees, &c. ; frequent. E. B. 1892. 

 Near Eynsford Station ; Brastead ; Ightliam. 

 Var. epipolia (Ach.) E. B. 1137. On walls at Plaxtol, Hoicse ! 

 Sandown Castle, near Deal ; Brastead. 



L. ABIE TINA (Ach.) 



On old oak and fir trees ; rare in fruit. E. B. Supplt. 



2642, f. 2. 

 Near Hungershall Kocks and on fir trees about Tunbridge 



Wells ; Jenner Ft. Tunhr. 



L. HELENA, yyl. 



On roots of trees on chalky banks ; frequent. 

 Chelsford ; Otford ; Shoreliam ; Wrotham. 



L. AROMATICA, Sill. 



On old walls; frequent. E. B. 1777. 

 Ightham ; B arming ; Boro' Green. 



L. SPH^ROIDES, Smrf. 



On trees and mosses in damp woods. 



Toy's Hill, Hoicse I 



[L. carneo-lutea (Turn.), which grows on old elms near the sea, 

 &c., should be looked for in the neighbourhood of Dover and 

 Hythe.] 



L. PREMNEA, Ach. 



On old trees ; not common. E. B. 1682. 



On trees on Tunbridge Wells Common ; Jenner Fl. Tunhr. On 

 an old oak near the river, Penshurst ; abimdant in Cobham 

 Park on old oaks growing with Opegrapha lyncea. 



Known by its 5-septate smaller spores and prumose apothecia 

 from L. grossa [L. premnea, Fr.) 



[L. carneola, Ach., with very small cup-shaped horny brown 

 apothecia, should be looked for on old oaks in Kent.] 



(To be continued.) 



SHOET NOTES. 



Botanical Nomenclature. — II parait de temps en temps, dans 

 ie * Journal of Botany ' et ailleurs, des articles sur la nomenclature 

 botanique dans les quels on emet quelquefois des opinions con- 

 traires a celles que j'ai soutenu dans les 'Lois de la Nomen- 

 clature,' recommandees par le Congres de 1867. II s'est ainsi 

 eleve des discussions aux quelles j'ai pris part occasionellent a 

 I'origine, maisj'estime a present que ces questions perdent beau- 

 coup de leur interet si on les discute ainsi par fragments, en 



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