106 DESCRIPTIONS OF NEW BRITISH LICHENS. \^May, 



Mentha sylvestris. By the side of the brook below Whitehill, 



By a stream in Hemhill Wood ; rare. 

 Mentha sativa. Swampy ground below Bysing Wood. In the 



lane to Moor Farm. 

 Origanum vulgare. Roadsides^ banksj and woods ; common^ but 



almost confined to the chalk. 

 Calamintha Ac'mos. Badging Wood and Down. Middle Wood. 



Woods about Belmont. 

 Calamintha Nepeta ?. By the roadside between Davington Pri- 

 ory and Ham Boad. 

 Calamintha officinoMs. Behind the ruins of Stone Church. 



Borders of Bysing Wood. Whitehill Road. 

 Calamintha Clinopodium. Borders of Bysing, Syndale, and 



Cockset woods. Porter's Lane. Whitehill Boad, About 



Selling and Belmont; frequent. 

 Ajuga Chamapitys. Cornfield beyond Badging Wood ; rare. 

 Ballota nigra. Boadsides about the town ; frequent. 

 Lamium Galeobdolon. Frequent in all our woods. 

 Galeopsis Ladanum. Chalky fields : about Porter's Lane and 



Badging Down; beyond Cockset Wood; below Selling 



Church. 

 Galeopsis Tetrahit. With white flowers. By the path from the 



little wood beyond the Four Oaks to Beacon Hill. 

 Galeopsis versicolor. Path-side in Sandbanks Wood. In a 



potato-field near Norton ; very rare. 

 Stachys Betonica. Bysing, Syndale, .and Cockset woods. 

 Nepeta Cataria. In a hedge on the London Boad near Chapel 



House. In the gravel-pit, Cockset Wood; rarely. 



Note. — A few plants (originally in the above list) of somewliat fi'eqiient occur- 

 rence in the south of England have been omitted. It is hoped that the author of 

 the communication will kuidly excuse their omission. 



DESCEIPTIONS OP NEW BEITISH LICHENS. 



By J. G. Baker. 



1. Parmelia rubiginosa, var. cceruleo-hadia (Lichen cseruleo- 

 badius, ^chl. Crypt. Helv.). Thallus greyish-leaden coloured, 

 composed at the centre of granular areolations, foliaceous at the 

 margin; apothecia irregular, dark-chestnut coloured, margin 



