PART III. 



THALLOPHYTA. 



DIVISION A. FUNGI. 



Our district is rich in Fungi, due to the presence in it of 

 numerous coppices, thickets and pine woods, but only a few 

 localities have been carefully explored, and these, in many cases, 

 not recently. 



In 1879, T. Howse, F.L.S., published a series of papers on the 

 Fungi of Kent in the Journal of Botany, taking as basis his own 

 records and those of E. M. Holmes, F.L.S., of Sevenoaks, and 

 supplementing these by the more or less historical records contained 

 in the following works : 



Mrs. HUSSEY, Illustrations of British Mycology, 1847. 



Berkeley's British Fungology, 1860 ; English Flora, vol. v., 1836. 



G. SPARKES, List of Agarics found near Bromley, in the Phytologist, 



1844. 



W.T.T., List of Fungi near Tunbridge in the Gardener 's Chronicle 

 1875. 



Mr. E. M. Holmes has recently made a summary of these records 

 for the Victorian History of Kent, but, unfortunately, it contains 

 little that is new. The records are obviously very old and often 

 erroneous, and many of the localities, which come within the 

 boundaries of our survey, are now quite impossible, having been 

 absorbed within the ever-spreading arms of the great Metropolis. 



In other groups of the Lower Plants, e.g., the Mosses, Liverworts 

 and Lichens, we have made the greatest possible use of the papers 

 by Mr. Holmes in the Journal of Botany, not merely because of the 

 excellent way the records are treated, but because we believe that 

 most of them probably stand to this day, thereby affording a sound 

 basis for future work. As we cannot, from the very nature of the 

 plants, say the same for the Fungi, we have decided to make 

 no use of Mr. Howse's lists, but have limited our entries to 

 the groups in which more recent work has been done. For this 

 reason some of 'the largest and most important groups have received 

 no attention at all, and others next to none. 



