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Mr. J. Ct. Baker. One, H. Sculiyi, may, perhaps, be reduced to a 

 variety of lanthe aqnatica ; the other is H. Andrewsii, otherwise 

 H. obJiqua Andr. {)ion Jacq.). This latter species is founded on 

 the figure of a plant cultivated in a Clapham nursery, and nothing 

 further is known about it. An examination of Andrews' figure 

 shows that the rhizome is a tuber with numerous long root-fibres, 

 and not a corm, such as is characteristic of other species which 

 are referred to lanthe. If, therefore, the species is to be kept up, it 

 should find a place in Hypo.vh proper until more can be known 

 about it. 



No fossil forms or impressions of any of the Hi/po.ridea: have 

 been identified. 



The plate which illustrates this paper represents a specimen of 

 lanthe stellata, and is reproduced by photography from a sheet in 

 the Linnean Herbarium to which a single specimen is attached, 

 and at the bottom of which is written the single word ' stellata ' 

 in Linne's handwriting. 



MOSSES OF WEST LANCASHIRE. 

 By J. A. Wheldon, F.L.S., and Albert Wilson, F.L.S. 



This list, which is supplementary to our article on the " Mosses 

 of West Lancashire" {Joum. Bot. Nov. and Dec. 1899), contains 

 numerous plants which are new not only to vice-county 60, but 

 also to the Mersey Province. These latter are indicated by having 

 an asterisk prefixed. The few species included in the following 

 pages w4]ich were also recorded in our first list are marked by an 

 obelisk sign, and are introduced here, either because their rarity in 

 the county renders the discovery of a new locality interesting, or 

 because we wish to modify statements as to their rarity given in 

 the list named. All the remaining species have been found or 

 determined since our original list was written. 



The foregoing remarks are not intended to apply to the Sphagna. 

 Many of these appeared in the paper quoted under other names. 

 The publication of Mr. Horrell's work on the European Sphag- 

 nacecB called for a revision of these, and that we have so soon 

 been able to allot them names under the Warnstorfian system is 

 entirely due to the great help given us by Mr. Horrell, who has 

 spared neither time nor trouble in confirming, correcting, or 

 naming our gatherings. We have not quoted all the localities we 

 possess for each species, but sufficient to indicate the richness 

 of the Lancashire fells in these plants. Some bryologists look 

 askance at the new system of Sphagnology. Whatever faults it 

 has, it certainly has the merit of finding names for, and enabling 

 us to quote, well-marked and commonly occurring forms which 

 could not be satisfactorily referred anywhere under the older 

 arrangement. 



We have received numerous lists and specimens from Mr, H. 



