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seen the capsules on Braunton Burrows. Mr. Knight writes :^ 

 '* I fancy that some mosses which seem to be confined to a calcareous 

 element inland are not so particular when growing near the sea. — 

 J5. topliacea seems to be always common near the sea whatever is the 

 nature of the soil." — B. rigidula Mitt. c.fr. on the coast at Lee 

 and near the Watermouth Caves on a wall, apparently not uncommon 

 on rock in the Ilfracombe neighbourhood. — B. Hornschucliiana 

 Schultz. Small roadside quarry near Iron Letters Cross, Ilfracombe, 

 in small quantity; very fine on a golfing green on the Lee Golf 

 Links ; in extremely small quantity on Braunton Bun-ows. 



Weisia viridula Hedw, c.fr. in sandy places near Ilfiucombe, 

 I did not see much of this but it is no doubt not uncommon on sandy 

 banks in the district. — W. verticillata. Wet rocky bank near 

 Berrj'-narbor ; rock-crevice on Capstone Parade, Ilfracombe ; cliffs 

 near Haggington Beach, where I found capsules in fair quantity ; the 

 fruit is very rare. 



T7Hcliostomu7n crispulum Bruch. Rather common on banks, 

 rock-faces, etc. especially on the calcareous eastern side of Ilfracombe, 

 fruiting on stony banks on the south side of the road from Water- 

 mouth Castle to Combemartin ; the fruit is particularly fine and 

 plentiful in a small limestone quarry in a field a little to the south of 

 this road. Capsules are rare in this plant, but Mr. Dixon tells me he 

 finds that, when produced, they generally occur in some quantity. — 

 T. mutahiU Bruch. Bather common and often very fine around 

 Ilfracombe on rocks and banks ; the fruit, Avhich is rare, occurs 

 sparingly on a rocky bank on the south side of the road from Water- 

 mouth Castle to Combemartin. — T. mutahile var. littorale Dixon. 

 Common and very variable all round Ilfracombe, growing plentifully 

 on the rock-faces on Capstone "Parade and also on Lantern Hill ; a 

 very small-leaved form occurs which Mr. Knight says he has seen 

 elsewhere. — T. Jlavovirens Bruch. Fairly plentiful on sand at 

 Braunton Burrows ; a curious form occurred on rock in some quantity 

 in a small cove near Bull Point Lighthouse, about it Mr. Dixon 

 wrote : — " It is an unusual form with leaves acute and nerve longly 

 excurrent ; not, I think, at all common, but I have gathered it in 

 Hants, and one or two other localities." The only record for the 

 fruit of this moss appears to be near Falmouth in 1898 by the Bev. 

 W. H. Painter. — T. nitidum Schp. Rather common in and around 

 Ilfracombe ; I noticed it on the churchyard wall of the parish church 

 and on a wall close to Wildersmouth beach, near Marine Place. 



*Bleurochcete squarrosa Lindb. On sand at Braunton Burrows 

 in two localities near where Ammophila arundinacea has been planted ; 

 also very sparingly near the lighthouse on Braunton Burrows. 

 Mr. Dixon wrote : — " The leaves of the Bleurochcete you send from 

 Bi-aunton Burrows are unusually entire or subentire at times, but 

 scarcely constantly enough to form a var. or form." 



Zugodon viridissimus R. Brown. A form occurred rather 

 plentifully and fruited freely at the roots of trees by the small 

 stream near Watermouth Castle. Mr. Dixon wrote : — " The Zygodon 

 must be referred to Z. viridissimus. The leaves are sometimes 

 longly apiculate, but even then it is not the nerve that is excurrent 



