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A HISTORY OF LEICESTERSHIRE HEP ATICAE (Liverworts and Scale Mosses) The total number of liverworts recorded for Britain is 225. Leicestershire has 51, omitting Sphaerocarpus and Dumortiera ; the former is extinct and the latter erroneously recorded. Notting- hamshire has 38, including those which are extinct. Lincolnshire 37, and i doubtful. Warwick- shire 50. Derbyshire 93. Northamptonshire liverworts are not yet recorded. Reboulia hemi- spherica found at Breedon, 17 April, 1903, had not been recorded since Pulteney's vague record. Frullania Tamarisci, Dumort. IB, ZA - dilatata, Dumort. I A- 3 Lejeunia serpyllifolia, Lib. IB, 2 A Rndula complanata, Dumort. IA-3, 6 Porella platyphylla, Dill. IA-ZB, 6 Blepharozia ciliaris, Dumort. IB, ZA Lcpidozia reptans, Dumort. IB, ZA - setacea (Web.). iB,.Bloxam. Kantia trichomanis (Dicks.). I A- 3 - Sprengelii (Mart.). IB, ZA (Horwood, 1905) arguta, Lindb. 2A Cephalozia bicuspidata, Dumort. IA-ZA Scapania compacta, Dumort. 2A - nemorosa, Dumort. IB, 2 A - irrigua, Dumort. ZA - undulat.1, Dumort. I A, IB, ZA Diplophyllum albicans, Dumort. IB, ZA Lophocolea bidentata, Dumort. IA~3, 6 cuspidata, Limpr. 2A - heterophylla, Dumort. IA-3, 6 Chiloscyphus polyanthos, Dumort. IB, ZB, 6 Mylia anomala, Gray. ZA Pl.igiochila asplenioides, Dumort. IA-ZB Jungermania inflata, Huds. IA, ZA - sphaerocarpa, Hook. ZA. Oakley Wood (F. T. Mott, 1898) Flocrkii, Web. & Mohr. IB, ZA Jungermania barbata, Schreb. IB, ZA gracilis, Scheich. IB, ZA incisa, Schrad. IB - bicrenata, Schmid. IB, ZA ventricosa, Dicks. IB, ZA crenulata, Sm. IB, ZA gracillima, Sm. ZA Nardia scalaris, Gray. IB, ZA - emarginata, Gray. ZA Fossombronia pusilla, Dumort. IA ZA, 6 Blasia pusilla, L. ZA Fellia epiphylla, Corda. iA-3 calycina, Nees. IB ZB, 6 Aneura multifid.i, Dumort. IB-ZB pinguis, Dumort. I A ZA Metzgeria furcata, Dumort. IA-3, 6 Marchantia polymorpha, L. IB ZB Conocephalus conicus, Dumort. IA-3, 5, 6 Reboulia hemispherica, Raddi. IA [ZA, Pulteney] Lunularia cruciata, Dumort. ZA, ZB, 6 [Dumortiera hirsuta (Sw.) ZA, error] [Sphaerocarpus terrestris, Mich. IB] Riccia glauca, L. IA ZA - crystallina, L. ZA (F. T. Mott, August 1894) Ricciella fluitans (L.). IA (F.T.Mott). iB(Coleman) Ricciocarpus natans (L.). ZA (F. T. Mott) Anthoceros punctatus, L. IB, Bloxam ; ZA, Pulteney CHAREAE Chara vulgaris, L. IB-ZB var. longibracteata, Ktitz var. papillata, Wallr. - hispida, L. I A, IB CHARACEAE C H A R E A E continued Chara fragilis, Desv. IB-ZB NlTELLEAE Nitella opaca, Agard. 16-3 ALGAE In the Flora of Leicestershire, 1886, Mr. F. Bates published a most valuable account of the Fresh Water Algae, several of the species being new to science. The following list of 242 species is arranged in the order of G. F. West's British Fresh Water Algae. Doubtful forms are omitted, and those within square brackets require confirmation. A few additions, including diatoms, have been named by Mr. Wm. West, to whom the writer is much indebted. RHODOPHYCEAE Batrachospermum moniliforme, Roth. - atrum (Dillw.) CHLOROPHYCEAE Oedogonium cryptoporum, Wittr. var. vulgare, Wittr. Vancherii (Le Cl.) CHLOROPHYCEAE (continued) Oedogonium platygynum, Wittr. Rothii (Le Cl.) undulatum (Breb.) IB, Moira, 1906, K. & K. M. Fisher Braunii, Kutz ciliatum (Hass.) Pringsheimii, Cram. - excisum, Wittr. and L.