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CEYPTOGAMIC FLORA OF WAEWICKSHIRE. 



BY .TAAFKS E. BAaNALT-. 



In compiling this portion of the Warwickshire Flora I have 

 endeavoured to bring togetlier the various notes given from time to time 

 on this subject, which are at present scattered through various works, 

 Bothattliose botanists who may feel incliaed to follow up these investiga- 

 tions may be able easily to see what has been done already, and also 

 to decide, with little trouble to themselves, whether the plants they 

 find have been previously recorded, or are additions to our county flora. 

 In compiling such lists as this the great difficulty is to settle the 

 Bynonymy of the plants, many of the names of the older botanists 

 being now obsolete, and some transferred to other and frequently veiy 

 different 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 Scjiphophorus 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 

 Fame 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 iinable 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 

 rrom 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. 



