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It was found in the last week of September of this year, in the 

 magnesian limestone district, near Aberford, in the West Riding of 

 Yorkshire ; and, now that attention is called to it, there is but little 

 doubt that it may be found in other parts of the kingdom where 

 similar strata are to be found, it being chiefly a limestone-loving 

 plant, of moist situations, but of arctic type. It is a very distinct 

 species, and not likely to be confounded with any other species of 

 the genus ; distinguished by its short stumpy capsule with scarcely, 

 if at all, twisted peristome, also its oblong-lanceolate tapering leaf 

 with reddish nerve, and large lax cells. The specimens have been 

 very carefully examined, not only by Mr. Webster and myself, but 

 also by Mr. M. B. Slater, of Malton, and by Dr. Braithwaite, as 

 well as compared with an authentic example gathered by Dr. 

 Schimper in the Salzburg Alps, in the herbarium of the late 

 Dr. Spruce. It is the Besmatodon cernuus of Bruch & Schimper, 

 Bryol. Eur. ii. t. 134, and of Schimper's Synops. ed. ii. p. 186, and 

 Trichostomum indinatum of Mueller's Synopsis, i. p. 593. — C. P. 



HOBKIRK. 



Mosses of North-east Yorkshire, " V.-C. 62" (Jouru. Bot. 

 1900, 484-9).— "V.-C. 62," as defined by Watson, is bounded 

 on the south by the political boundary between the North and 

 East Ridings, and on the west by the Rivers Ouse and Wiskett. 

 In Mr. Ingliam's list several localities are given which are in 

 v.-c. 64 (Mid-west Yorks) — e.g. Askham Bog, Appleton Roebuck, 

 Thorp Arch, Boston Spa, and Bolton Percy ; while Leckby Carr, 

 which is also mentioned, is in v.-c. 65 (North-west Yorks). The 

 district has been closely worked by such excellent bryologists as 

 Spruce, Slater, R. Barnes, and G. Webster, and records of their 

 work are easy of access. Mr. Ingham's list would have been 

 valuable had he made it as far as possible exhaustive by em- 

 bodying in it all these earlier records. As it is, its utility is 

 not very evident ; in fact, it may even be misleading. The second 

 edition of Mr. J. G. Baker's yorth Yorkshire, now in course of 

 publication, will contain a list of the mosses and hepatics of the 

 North Riding, with localities revised and brought up to the present 

 year by Mr. Matthew B. Slater. — Llewellyn J. Cocks. 



AcoRus IN Cheshire. — A specimen from Richardson (not that 

 mentioned by Mr. Spencer Moore in Journ. Bot. 1899, 76) in Petiver's 

 Hort. Sice. Angl. (Herb. Sloane, 152, fol. 177) gives an earlier date 

 for his finding of Acorns than is given in the Flora of Cheshire. 

 Richardson's MS. note runs: — *' This was gathered in an old moate 

 at Holford, in Cheshire, where it grows in abundance ; and alsoe in 

 some marle-pits called Holford pitts, about six miles from North- 

 wich. I could have gathered 1100 in these places about the 

 beginning of July 1711. R. Richardson." — James Britten. 



