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distinguished from S. Michelii. It has been growing in a garden at 

 Woking for some years, but has only recently been definitely determined. 

 The plant was first recorded for Europe by Douin in 1907, as occurring 

 in the French department of Eure-et-Loire. At "Woking the plant- 

 grows in a garden supplied with shrubs from big nursery gardens in 

 the vicinity : but all inquiries fail to elicit any evidence that it was 

 introduced into this country with plants from California. The 

 European plants referred to S. Michelii require re-examination. He 

 also gives a description of Aplozia csespiticia Dum., gathered in the Isle 

 of Wight last November by H. H. Knight, and shows how it is dis- 

 tinguished from other species, notably by its terminal ball of gemmae. 

 It is a rare plant, though widespread on the Continent. 



Tortula cernua Lindb.* — W. Ingham records a second British 

 locality for Tortula cernua, which was first discovered in Britain nine 

 years ago. Both localities, Aberford and Doncaster, are in Yorkshire. 



Hepaticae of South Lancashire.! — J. A. Wheldou and W. G. Travis 

 give an enumeration of eighty-three hepaticae found in south Lancashire, 

 with localities, collectors, deceased and living, notes, bibliography, and 

 an introductory sketch. Corticolous species are rare owing to the 

 smoky atmosphere. The best stations are the remains of the old moss- 

 land. The sand hills between Liverpool and Southport yield some 

 interesting species. 



Shropshire Hepatic8e4 — W. G-. Travis records a few hepaticee 

 which he found on Longmynd, near Church Stretton, and which are 

 additions to the list given by W. P. Hamilton in the Victoria History 

 of Shropshire, 1008. 



Worcestershire Muscineae.§ — J. E. Bagnall and others contribute 

 a list of 293 mosses and 7G hepatics to Amphlett and Rea's Botany of 

 Worcestershire. An interesting item is Octodiceras Julianum at 

 Bewdley, in the Severn. 



Irish Muscine8e.|| — C. H. Waddell records the occurrence of the 

 hepatic Ptilidium ciliare on the top of Colin Mountain in Co. Antrim. 

 It is rare in Ireland, possibly escaping notice by its habit of growth, 

 usually in single stems, mixed with Dicranum and other mosses. 



H. W. Lett 1f records the finding of Catharinea rhystophyUa at 

 Saintfield, Co. Down, in May, 1908. That species is a native of north 

 China and is allied to G. angustata. It was growing on the mud-capped 

 top of an old stone wall, in association with Ceratodon purpureas and 

 Stereodon cupressiforme. 



D.McArdle** gives lists of forty -seven mosses and eighteen hepatics 

 from. Co. Fermanagh, and twenty-three mosses and fifteen hepatics- 



* Naturalist, No. 630 (1909) p. 270. 



t Trans. Liverpool Bot. Soc, i. (1909) pp. 32-46.- 



% Journ. of Bot., xlvii. (1909) p. 324. 



§ Birmingham : Cornish Brothers, 1909, pp. 444-87. 



|| Irish Naturalist, xviii. (1909) p. 119. ■ 



\ Tom. cit., p. 120. ** Tom. cit., pp. 144-9. 



