90 THE .TOL'EXAL OF BOTANY 



on Lantern Hill, close to the harbour. — G. tricJiopliylla Grev. On 

 Hillsborough and common along the coast to the west of Ilfracombe, 

 sometimes very dwarf. — * G. suhsquari^osa Wils. In fair plenty on 

 siliceous rock by the roadside at Upper Warcombe Farm between Lee 

 and Mortehoe ; plentifully on a bank on the coast between Mortehoe 

 and Woolacombe ; plentifully on rocks on the coast between Mortehoe 

 village and Mortehoe Point. Mr. Dixon wrote: — "I think your 

 Grimmia must be referred to the type form of G. suhsquarrosa. 

 Var. edinensis is a very short, dense form — a starved state probably, 

 just as G. Stirtoni is probably a starved state of G. trichopliylla T 

 In 1910 Mr. G. Wrey found it fruiting near Torquay, in November 

 1917 I noticed it bearing capsules very sparingly on the coast near 

 Mortehoe. Mr. F. Kilstone sent me from Polperro (v.c. 2) a plant 

 about which Mr. Dixon wrote : — " Certainly one of the transitional 

 forms connecting G. trichophylla and G. suhsquarrosa ; in some 

 respects nearer the former, but the basal cells show a decided tendency 

 to be of the suhsquarrosa form." Mr. Frank Savery found G. suh- 

 squa7'rosa at Anstey's Cove nesti* Torqua}^ ; for its strange occurrence 

 with other aberrant species on the Wiltshire sarsen stones near 

 Marlborough, see Journ. Bot. 1916, 19. 



Rliacomitrium fasciculare Brid. Rock on coast between Ilfra- 

 combe and Lee. — R. heterostichum Brid. Large tufts occurred on 

 rock in Freshwater Bay between Ilfracombe and Lee {teste Dixon). — 

 B. lanuginosum Brid. Mr. F. A. Brokenshire sent me this from 

 near Shoulsbarrow Common on the edge of Exmoor. — R. canescens 

 Brid. Damp ground by roadside near Spreacombe. 



*Coscinodon crihrosus Spruce. In some quantity on the west and 

 eist sides of Freshwater Bay halfway betrvveen Ilfracombe and Lee; 

 the fruit is not rare in June and July. Here it grows on three stone 

 walls, as well as in places thickly encrusting the rock crevices ; it also 

 occurs in seams on inaccessible perpendicular faces of the cliffs. 

 Some of the cushions were very large ; the delicate pale green colour 

 of this moss when wet contrasts strongly with the grey velvety 

 mouse-skin-like appearance when dry. New to the South of England, 

 the nearest station appearing to be in the Lake District; a Welsh 

 locality near Barmouth is well known. 



Ptychomitrium poIyphyJJum Fiirn. c.fr. plentiful on walls in 

 the Sterridge Valle}" ; also c.fr. on walls by roadside between Mullacott 

 Cross and Ilfracombe. 



Pottia recta Mitt. c.fr. on bare ground by the sea near 

 Mortehoe (Knir/ht). — P. intermedia Fiirnr. Bank by roadside 

 between Mortehoe Ivailway Station and Woolacombe. — Tortula 

 amhigua Angst!'. Bank near Ilfracombe. — T. aloides De Not. c.fr. 

 bank on road between Ilfracombe and Combemartin ; also c.fr. bank 

 between Woolacombe and Mortehoe. — T. atrovirens Lindb. Rather 

 plentiful on the coast on banks between Woolacombe and Mortehoe ; 

 also on clay on the coast near Saunton. Mr. Dixon referred to A^ar. 

 edentula (B. & S.) Par. (1906) plants from Saunton and also from 

 Capstone and Lantern Hills, Ilfracombe. Of the Saunton plants he 

 wrote : — " Some of it is var. edentula and some is not. This shows 

 the unsatisfactory status of the var." Of the Capstone Hill plants 



