12 “THE CKYPTOGAMIC FLORA OF KENT. 
who have the opportunity of thoroughly exploring this part. The 
pebl les on the beach at Lydd, particularly near the ponds, are covered 
with eee but very few of which have yet been recorded. The beach 
S.W. of Lydd deserves a thorough examination. The list of jes 
water Alge, including the Diatoms and Desmids, is at present a 
small one. 
The plan adopted in the following paper may be thus described :— 
The higher Cryptogams, including the Ferns and their allies, are 
omitted, since it is intended to incorporate them, as is usually the 
practice, with the Ehanenreees Flora; but the Musci, Hepatice, 
Lichens, Fungi, Characee, and Alge, both marine and fr esh- water, 
ed. 
the name adopted, the ah most. iit ae in use, as wella 
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from published works. 2nd. Those communicated by correspondents 
(all of which have been certified by the receipt of specimens). 3rd. 
Those found and examined by the author 
emarks of a nature not generally found in text- books, but which 
may be of ged is local botanists in searching for species of rare 
occurrence, are onally appended. Species not yet detected i in 
the county, but vat should be looked for, are enclosed in pquare 
brackets. 
The following is a list of the books consulted for localities, with 
the abbreviations employed in these pa 
Ray Syn. vit.—Ray, ‘‘ Synopsis methodica stirpium Britannicarum,’’ 
8rd ed., 1724. 
Curt. Fl. Lond.—W. Curtis, ‘‘ Flora Londinensis,” 1777-1798. _ 
£.B., Sowerby—" English Botany,” 17 90-1840, ie ae 
1831-1865 
B.G., Turner and Dillwyn—“ Botanist’s Guide,” 5. 
Fl. Met., D. Cooper—* Flora Metropolitana,” and * Piapblement: “ 
836-7. 
ety Tonbr.—T. F. Forster, “ Flora Tonbridgensis,’’ 1816 and 
842. 
eee Tunbr.—E. Jenner, ‘ Flora of Tunbridge Wells,” 1845. 
No notice is taken of plants ts which, in the Tunbridge Wells Floras, 
are recorded without definite localities, nasi it is impossible to sa 
whether they: were Yound i in Kent or Susse 
Muse 
The arrangement of the Mosses Whies perenapt is that followed in 
late oovchidingt e most advanced bryologists in this country,* and con- 
arae a more natural one than that given in the “ Bryologia Britan- 
hie tik Y synonyms quoted pce those from Bon omy books are 
the names employed in Bes three works on h Mosses most 
sein ei in use in this country. “These works are ‘ea indicated. 
this arrangement, by Dr, R. Braithwaite, willbe found in 
eons paaue Review,” 1871. = 
