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region of Scotland lying to the north of the Forth. I have it 

 from various localities in the counties of Argyle, Perth, Forf^ir, 

 Inverness, Ross, Sutherland, and Caithness. To the south of 

 the Forth it appears to be very rare, but has been gathered in 

 the Lake District in the north of England, by Professor Barker ; 

 and it is said that it was gathered by Wilson on the Welsh 

 mountains, though I have been unable to obtain satisfactory con- 

 firmation of the report. There is every probability that it is a 

 denizen of Wales j for it would be somewhat singular if it were 

 not so, since it occurs not only on many of the Scottish and 

 Irish mountains, but is well distributed in Europe from Scandi- 

 navia to the Alps. The grandest of all the Campylopi is C seti- 

 foliiis, which has not yet been met with outside the British Isles. 

 For many years it was known as a native of the south-west of 

 Ireland only, and there I have gathered specimens about a foot 

 in length, but in that region of warmth and moisture almost 

 every moss assumes gigantic dimensions. Several years ago the 

 late Mr Hunt detected it on Sligachan in Skye, a region also 

 celebrated for its rains. The plants found in this locality were 

 males, whereas in Ireland, so far as is yet known, they are all 

 females. It has now been observed in several counties in Scot- 

 land, in one in England ; and last year it was gathered in Wales, 

 and with old fruit, too — the first fruit, I believe, ever seen by 

 human eyes. Though the British specimens are much less 

 stately than the Irish ones, the plant may readily be recognised 

 by its large, lax, soft tufts of a deep green hue with a dash of 

 black in the upper part. It can only be mistaken for the unpil- 

 iferous form of C. longipiius, but the tufts are quite soft, loose, 

 and not nearly so black. Moreover, it lives almost exclusively 

 on our western mountains, and may be regarded as belonging to 

 the Atlantic type of mosses, like Myurium hebridarum^ Didy- 

 modon reciirvifoliiwi (which has recently been found in Wales by 

 Mr Holmes), Leskea (yHypnuni) inicans^ Hookeria Imte-virens^ &c., 

 although its presence in two of our eastern counties is opposed 

 to a certain extent to our so regarding it. Another important 

 species or sub-species of this genus is Campylopus paradoxus 

 Wils. I recently detected it in a collection gathered by Pro- 

 fessor Barker in Glencoe in 1870, and most beautiful specimens 

 have been found in Yorkshire by Mr Wesley. Specimens of so- 

 called C. pa7-adoxiis have been sent to me from very many 

 quarters, but these are almost the only ones which, in my 

 opinion, can be admitted without any hesitation, to be identical 



