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University, had visited this locality and sent examples. These had 

 been queried as H. sciaphilum Uechtr. var. amplifolium Ley, with 

 which I do not consider our plant has any affinity. 



While both Boswell (Syme) (E. Bot. ed. 3) and Babington 

 (ed. ix) include our plant, Hooker in the Students Flora relegates 

 it to obscurity, and Mr. F. N. Williams (Prodr. Fl. Brit.) and the 

 Rev. W. R. Linton in The British Hieracia omit its mention 

 altogether. There is therefore no consensus of opinion yet among 

 botanists as to its proper status in our Flora. 



To my mind it has considerable claim to fuller recognition. It 

 has evidently been naturalized — especially at Oxford — for many years, 

 and has come to stay, and, what is more, to appear from time to time 

 in new localities. There being nothing particularly beautiful about it, 

 save for exuberance of growth, I cannot think that anyone would pur- 

 posely plant it, as others of the same genus are more attractive and 

 brilliant, e. g. calendulijlorum or chrysanthum Backh., villosum L., or 

 lanatum W. K. 



I may add that it has long found a place, italicized, in the 

 London Catalogue; Nyman (Conspect. Fl. Eur. p. 448) gives 

 Spain, the Pyrenees, Jura, and the Apennines as its chief localities, 

 making no mention of its appearance elsewhere adventitiously. 



GLAMORGANSHIRE BRYOPHYTA. 

 Br Eleanora Armitage. 



During the botanical excursions in connection with the British 

 Association Meeting at Cardiff last August, I was able to collect 

 some Sphagna which have been kindly named for me by Mr. J. A. 

 Wheldon, who tells me that only one Bog-moss (Sphagnum obesuni) 

 had been noticed in this county before. I was also able to add a few 

 new records in mosses and hepatics which Mr. H. H. Knight has 

 verified for me. Mr. Knight had worked at Bryophyta in Glamorgan 

 previously, and has now handed me a list of his more recent records 

 which have not appeared in the Census Catalogues, together with 

 a few old ones from the Herbarium of the late Rev. A. Ley. In 

 the following list the moss records are Mr. Knight's unless otherwise 

 stated. The Sphagnum and hepatic records are the writer's ; vouchers 

 of these gatherings for v.c. 41 have been deposited in the National 

 Museum of Wales. The Sphagna were collected in two localities : on 

 moorland at Mynydd-y-Glew at about 400 feet (M.), and on swampy 

 moorland at Hirwain Common, 1450-1500 feet, below Craig-y-llyn 

 (H.)— only two forms were common to both places. The other 

 localities are detailed separately. 



Sphagnum acutifolium var. versicolor f. venustum H. ; S. plumu- 

 losum var. viride H., var. versicolor f. tenellum M., var. coerulescens 

 M., and a form passing to ochraceum M. ; >$'. amblyphyllum var. 

 mesophyllum f. sylvaticum H. ; S. serratum var. serrulatum H. ; 

 *$'. cuspidatum var. submersum f. crispatum H. ; S. molluscum 

 var. vulgatum f. compactum H. ; S. inundatum var. ovalifolium 

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