CRYPTOGAMIC FLORA OF WARWICKSHIRE. 291 
synonymy of the plants, many of the names of the older botanists 
being now obsolete, and some transferred to other and frequently very 
diffcrent plants from those intended by past recorders. In the Lichens 
and Fungi I have found it extremely difficult in many cases to decide 
what plant such an author as Purton meant by the name under which 
he recorded it. To take a single instance, Purton records from Oversley 
Wood a rare Lichen under the name of Lichen digitatus; in ‘‘ The 
English Flora,” Vol. V., page 240, this is called Scyphophorus digitatus, 
and by Leighton, in ‘‘ The Lichen Flora of Great Britain,” page 68, it 
bears the name of Cladonia digitata. Thus in three standard works the 
same plant is placed in three different genera. Nor is this a singular 
instance. Hence if I should omit to notice some of the plants recorded 
by the older botanists it will be because I have been unable to trace them 
to their modern name. / 
In the Fungi I have received great assistance from the notes of that 
eminent fungologist, the late Mrs. Frederick Russell, of Kenilworth, and 
I have to thank her niece, Miss Worsley, for having so courteously 
allowed me to copy the list of Fungi found by her aunt in the neighbour- 
hood of Kenilworth, Warwick, &c.—a most extensive list, the result of 
many years’ careful and successful study of these plants. 
The Moss Flora, with one or two exceptions, is compiled entirely 
from my own note book, and the sign! after the name of a locality 
indicates that I have myself collected and examined the plant cited 
from that locality. Authentic specimens which I have seen from localities 
given on the authority of other collectors I have indicated by the sign ! after 
the name of the recorder. 
The past records of Warwickshire mosses are very scanty, the 
only works within myreach in which any such records are given being 
Purton’s “ Midland Flora” and Perry’s ‘‘ Plante Varvicenses Select,” 
the notes in the latter being entirely copied from the first-named work. 
Unfortunately. Purton has not given localities for any but the rarer 
mosses, and has, therefore, left it uncertain whether the mosses recorded 
as ‘‘common,” “frequent,” &c., were found by him in Warwickshire or 
in other parts of the Midlands. Ihave only recorded those mosses for 
which he gives a Warwickshire station, although I am convinced that 
many that I omit were found by him in this county. 
The Moss Flora of Warwickshire is by no means an extensive one, 
and our really rare species are few in number compared with those of such 
counties as Surrey, Kent, or Gloucester. Still the county has yielded a 
few rare species, and has the merit, if merit it be, of having added at 
least two new species to the British Flora. The present list is, I am 
convinced, an imperfect one. Much of the county has been at present 
neglected, and to many districts I have been able to make only flying 
visits. From the neighbourhood of Rugby I have no notes. The Edge 
Hill district has only once been visited by myself; and I know of no 
records from that part of the county which lies south-west of the Edge 
Hills; in fact, so far as I have been able to make out, very little has yet 
been done in the southern portion of the county, and I am convinced 
that much good work still remains to be done. 
