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greiit Interest. 7 = TS^orth Wilts ; 8 = South Wilts ; c.fr. = with fruit; 

 * = iie\v viee-comital record. 



Mosses. 



Sphagnum cymhifoUum Ehrh. 8. In a small pool near Foxbury 

 Wood. 



Cafharinea tenella Rohl. 7*. E-ather sparingly on the sandy 

 clay o£ the Heading Sands on a ride in Chisbury Wood ; the plants 

 wore sterile. This is extremely rare and seems to be recorded only 

 from Bedgebmy Wood, Goudhurst, Kent. 



Polytrichum piliferum Schreb. and P. juniperinum Willd. 

 7, 8. Not uncommon in sandy places in Savernake Forest and 

 Tottenham Park, 



Pleuridium axil! are Lindb. 7, 8. Abundant on the insides of 

 cart-ruts in Bedwyn Brails and Chisbury Woods and damp places in 

 Savernake Forest, always fruiting. — P. suhulatum Rabenh. 7, 8. 

 C.fr., abundant on sand}" ground in the district. 



Dicranella riifescens Schp. 7*. On damp clay by a pool near 

 the Column, Savernake Forest, c.fr. — D. varia Schp. 7, 8. Widely 

 spread, often on the bare surface of the chalk. — D. Schreheri Schp. 

 7*. Chisbury Wood, with Pleu7ndium suhulatum. 



Campylopus flexuosus Brid. 7. Fruiting in the north part of 

 Tottenham Park and also in Rhododendron Drive ; capsules appear 

 to be rare in this species. — C. hrevipilus B. & S. 7*. In very 

 small quantity in the north-east part of Tottenham Park, near the 

 (Irand Avenue {teste Knight). 



Dicranum Bonjeanl De Not. 7. In small quantity in the 

 north part of Tottenham Park. 



Leucohri/um glaucum Schp. 7. Rather sparingly in one ])lace 

 in Chisbury Wood ; also in Cobham Frith Wood. 



Flssideris exilis Hedw. 7*. On clay in Chisbury Wood. — 

 F. crassipes Wils. 7*. C.fr., on the brickwork of a sluice by the 

 Kennet and Avon Canal ; also in a similar situation by the Kennet 

 near Ramsbury. 



Grimmia tricliopliylla Orev. 7. On sarsen stones in West 

 Woods, Marlborough. — G. suhsquarrosa Wils. 7. A form almost 

 without hair points on sarsen stones in Lockeridge Dean, Marl- 

 borougli. This is extremely rare in fruit ; as to its method of jn-o- 

 pagation, Mr. Dixon wrote: — "This frequently, if not normally, has 

 multicellular gemmae in the axils of the upper leaves, and I expect 

 the propagation is chiefly by these : in fact, Limpricht gives 

 * Gr. suhsquarrosa ' as a synonym of his ' G. Millilenheckii forma 

 propagulifera.'' " 



Rliacomitrium canescens Brid. 7*. In small quantity on earth 

 in the north part of Tottenham Park. 



Pottia intermedia Fiirnr. 7, 8. Plentifully in a fallow field at 

 Fosbury ; Savernake Forest. — -P. iiiinutula Furnr. forma. 7. On 

 the ground near Savernake Lcxlge ; " a form with rather narrow and 

 elongate capsules." Dixon. 



Tortula Irevipila var. Icevipilceformis Limpr. 7*. On trees in 

 Tottenham Park, near the Durley (late.— T. papillosa Wils. 7. 



