A SKETCH OF HIS LIFE. XIX 



Schimp. On another occasion he exhibited Gampylos- 

 telinm saxicola Br. & Sch., and he also from time to 

 time brought to the meetings some of the rarer 

 mosses which he had collected in Scotland during his 

 summer holidays, among the most interesting of these 

 being Encalijpta streptocarpa Hedw. in fruit. On 

 another occasion he had the pleasure of announcing 

 the rare find of Tetradontium browtdanum Schwg. * 

 near Stalybridge. 



" In 1881 he visited the Wharf e Valley, and on his 

 return he gave a brief sketch of his tour, describing 

 the finding of such rare mosses as Encalypta strepto- 

 carpa Hedw., Ornithodontium gracile, Sch w., and Tetra- 

 pMs pellacida Hedw., all in fruit. In the same year 

 he announced the discovery, at Nant-y-Ffrith, near 

 Wrexham, of Ornithodontium gracile Schw., a mass of 

 which had fruited abundantly. This moss was not 

 known to have been gathered before in Wales. In the 

 same locality Tetraphis pellucida Hedw. was fruiting 

 freely, and the rare Weissia commutata Mitt, was also 

 found. 



"In May, 1882, he read an interesting paper on 

 some of the scarce mosses, with special reference to 

 the history of the discovery of Tliuidium blandovii 

 Web. and Mohr and Paludella squarrosa Brid. on 

 Knutsford Moor, Cheshire, and in October of the same 

 year he exhibited and distributed specimens of a moss 

 which he had gathered in Scotland, and had deter- 

 mined by microscopical examination to be the rare 

 Myurella apiculata Hueben.f 



" These few extracts from the minute books of the 

 Manchester Cryptogamic Society show the keen 



* ^Tetraphis browniana Grev.] 



f [This moss had before been gathered on rocks amongst the Breadalbane 

 mountains by Mr. Gardner.] 



