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The former formed a taller and more luxuriant bush, 

 probably from growing in better soil. Its leaflets are on 

 the average larger, and it was loaded with an extraordinary 

 crop of flower-buds, many of which came off in my fingers 

 whilst examining them. Owing to the lateness of the 

 season, not many flowers were expanded at the time of my 

 visit. Those which I saw, however, were smaller than in 

 the case of the Caputh rose, and unlike the latter, seemed 

 not to open out more than half. The sepals in the 

 Aberdeenshire form are larger and more appendiculate 

 than in the Caputh form, and that seems to be the most 

 important distinction. In all essential points, however, the 

 two forms may be said to be identical. 



I should be glad to receive any information as to this 

 rose as a cultivated plant. 



SOME SCOTTISH MOSSES. 

 By Dr. JAMES STIRTON, F.L.S., ETC. 



IN order to enable me the better to continue my efforts 

 towards the determination of mosses in a barren state, I 

 paid, in August of last year, another visit to Tarbert in 

 Harris, mainly for the purpose of securing specimens in 

 proper condition. This I succeeded in doing in only one 

 instance, while I added little or nothing to its Moss-Flora. 

 I picked up a few stems of Barbula cirrJufolia (Sc/t.} = Mollia 

 Jdbernica (Mitt.} growing intermingled with Hypnum pro- 

 vectum, described in these "Annals" for April 1902. I 

 reckon this Hypnum distinct from any form of H. molluscum, 

 with which I had, for many years, identified it. It differs in 

 the pale perichaetium, in the long arcuate capsules both in a 

 young and mature state, in being on a much larger scale, in 

 being prostrate and rooting as it extends along the sub- 

 stratum, in the irregular branching, bearing, in this respect, 

 much the same relationship to H. molluscum that H. falcatum 

 does to H. coinmutatum, lastly in the large proportion of the 

 leaves being corrugated transversely. In typical specimens, 



