OXFORDSHIRE MOSSES. 3 



somewhat involute and channelled, six to nine inches long. The 

 panicle usually loose, erect, the last stem-leaf overtopping it 

 generally considerably; petals and sepals pale, narrowly lanceolate, 

 acuminate, 1|- to 2 lines in length, usually slightly spreading in 

 fruit. Stamens 6, Capsule ovate, oblong, shortly mucronate, 

 yellowish and shining, usually shorter than the perianth. Seeds 

 minute, with a very short apiculus at each end. It is most 

 nearly allied to J. Gerardi Lois. 



Description of Plate. — 1. Juncm tenuix Willd., specimen from Germany 

 (nat. size). '2. Kipe fruit with perianth (enlarged). 3. Capsule dehiscing 

 (enlarged). 4. Seeds (nat. size and enlarged). 



OXFOEDSHIKE MOSSES. 

 By Henry Boswell. 



The period elapsed since the publication of the list of Mosses 

 in this -Journal for 1872 (pp. 363-374) has been not altogether 

 unproductive, rather more than a dozen additional sj)ecies having 

 been discovered ; some new localities have been found for others, 

 and a few of those only reported as barren have been obtained in 

 fruit. In recording these I take the opportunity of making one or 

 two corrections of the previous list, and of enumerating the 

 HepaticcB which have come under notice. These latter are not 

 numerous ; they require for the most part even a greater degree of 

 shelter and atmospheric moisture than the mosses proper, and a 

 drained and cultivated country is unfavourable to the growth of 

 the majority of the species. 



Mosses. 



Dicravoiceissia cirrhata (Hedw.) Lindb. [WeiHsia). On thatch of 

 an old shed at Ascott-under-Wychwood, in plenty, March, 1879. 

 The shed has subsequently been removed, and at present I know of 

 no other Oxfordshire site for this moss, though it is comparatively 

 frequent in the neighbouring county of Worcester, and westwards 

 into Herefordshire. March, A^n-il. 



Dicranum majus Turn. Fruits in the woods about Watlington, 

 Stokeuchurch, and Wycombe. Large but barren in Singe Wood, 

 near Witney. June, July. 



Leucohrijuin (jlaucuin Hedw. Woods near Goring. 



Fissidcns jmsilhis Wils. On both earth and stones in hedge- 

 banks near Witney and Hailey. November to February. — F. in- 

 curims Sch. Tar Wood ; plentiful. February, March. — F. cxilis 

 Hedw. Tar Wood, with the last ; and at Stockley, Wychwood 

 Forest. Winter. — F. inconstans Sch. Founded on my Sunning- 

 well specimens, seems to be only a spart of F. hnjoides, possessing 

 no substantial characters. It occurred in 1880 between Witney 

 and Burlord, but 1 could never regard it as a good species. 



