THE CRYPTOGAMIC FLORA OF KENT. 373 



of one fern, as I could get plants which would answer all then* 

 descriptions out of my own paddock ; yet I regard all as ''vidgatum." 

 There are often two and sometimes three leaves to one fertile spike. 



I think that Botryckium cicutarium and B. dissectum might 

 fairly be separately classed. They never grow together, the former 

 occurring only among fern, grass, or manuka-scrub ; and the latter, 

 though so much smaller and more delicate, only on the richest 

 bush soil. B. dissectum often has quite mossy foliage, Hke that of 

 Todea superha. 



It is possible that there may be similar apparent inaccuracies 

 of description as regards other New Zealand ferns, but I have only 

 noted those in respect of plants growing hereabouts, and with 

 which I am thoroughly familiar. 



THE CEYPTOdAMIC FLOEA OF KENT. 

 By E. M. Holmes, F.L.S. 

 (Concluded from p. 345.) 

 LeCIDEA MILLLA.RLV, Fv. 



On the earth and decaying wood. 

 On heathy ground, Toy's Hill. 



Known by its almost globular crowded apothecia and obtuse 

 spores from L. sahidetorum. 



L. sabuletorum, Flk. 



On decayed mosses, &c. 

 Fant Woods, near Maidstone. 



L. ROSELLA (Pers.) 



On trees; rare. E. B. 1651. 



On the root of an ash tree in a hedge near Chelsfield. 

 L. RUBELLA (Ehrh.) 



On elm trees, &c. ; common. 



Chelsfield ; Selling ; Lulhngstone Park ; Chilstone Park ; 



Maidstone. 

 [L. endoleuca, with black apothecia, white internally, and acicular 

 multiseptate spores, should be looked for on trees in Kent.] 



L. effusa [Sm.) 



On trees, rocks, &c. 

 Var. funella, Fr. On trees near Maidstone ; Sibertswold. 

 Var. ccBsio-pruinosa, Mudd. On elder trees ; frequent. Beech- 

 borough ; Sibertswold ; Waldershare ; Newington. 



L. PELIDNA, Ach. 



On rocks and stones. Mudd, Manual (spores only) t. 3, f. 69. 

 Sundridge, near Sevenoaks. 



L. PETR^A (^Wulf.) 



On rocks, pebbles, &c. 



Lydd Beach ; common on the pebbles in company with Lecanoia 

 yibbusa. 



