ILFRACOMBE MOSSES AN^D HEPATICS 95 



mosses Grimmia suhsqitarrosa, Coscinodoii cribi^osus, Tortula atro^ 

 virens var. edentula, Fleicrochcete squarrosa and B^^yum Warneum 

 and the hepatics Biccia comnmtata and 3Ioerc'kia Flofowiana. 

 Calcareous rocks appear on the coast to the east of Ilfracombe, and 

 this is strongly reflected in the moss flora, Weisia verticillata, 

 Tricliostomum crispulum, Brachythecmm glareosum and other cal- 

 cicolous species making their appearance, while the hepatic Lopliozia 

 turhinata, always indicative of lime, grows in sheets by the roadside, 

 c.fr. = with fruit. * = new vice-comital record. 



Mosses. 



Pleicridium axillare Lind. Very sparingly around a puddle on 

 the top of Windcutter Hill, near Lee ; this has been found between 

 Stoke and Hartland, N. Devon, by Mr. Frank Savery. 



Dichodoiitium pellucidum Schp. Wet rocks in the rivulet on 

 coast between Ilfmcombe and Lee, just before it falls down the cliffs ; 

 also by a road runnel in the Chambercombe Valley. 



Dicranella varia Schp. forma. A rather curious plant grew on 

 wet clay on the top of Windcutter Hill near Lee, which had the tinv 

 erect capsules of D. rufescens with the leaves of D. varia. Mr. Knight 

 wi'ote, " I was quite prepared to find that your Bicranella was 

 rufescens until I examined the leaves under the microscope. They 

 were certainly those of i). varia,'' and again he wrote, " The capsules 

 are nearly erect, but the leaves in your plant have the margins 

 narrowly revolute and entire and the narrow cells of varia. In 

 rufescens the margins are plane, denticulate in upper part and cells 

 larger. Bufescens is much less common than varia, though both 

 here (Cheltenham) and in S. Wales I have not found it very 

 uncommon." 



*Campylopiis frag His B. & S. In small quantity among grass 

 near Mortehoe. — C. brevipilus B. & S. In small quantit}^ in one 

 place on the coast between Mortehoe and Mortehoe Point, a J'oung 

 state ; the hair-points were difficult to find. 



Bicranum BonjeaniT>e Not., forma. A very curious form which 

 has been distributed through the Moss Exchange Club grew on thj 

 thatch of an outhouse at Cheglinch, a hamlet near the village of 

 West Down, Ilfracombe ; about it Mr. Dixon wrote : " I have never 

 associated var. juniper if olium with the bright green soft habit of 

 the B. Bonjeani you send ; it is usually rigid, dark brown or blackish, 

 with rather rigid leaves. In the gene.i'al leaf direction, however, and 

 cliaracter of leaves, it comes very near it. I should be inclined to 

 call it a form, in some respects very near var. juniper if oliitm.''''— 

 B. majus Turn. This fine species grew for nearly half a mile in a 

 hedgebank bordering a wood about half a mile west of Bratton 

 Fleming railway station with Blagiotliecium undulatum and Hylo- 

 comium loreum, the three species fruiting very freely for a long 

 distance. 



Grimmia maritima Turn. Occurred abundantly and fruited 

 profusely on rocks on the coast to the west of Ilfi-acombe but 

 was scarce or absent on the coast to the east of the town where the 

 rocks are calcareous ; it was plentiful on Capstone Hill and also grew 



