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cohaBrentes. Hypotliecium albidum. Asci clavati, menibrana 

 tenui. Sporfe 8nfe, disticlife, simplices, decolores, long. 0-012- 

 0-008, crass. 0-007-0-005 millim., ellipsoides aut ellipsoideo- 

 ovoideae, apicibus rotundatis. Supra rupem ad Bath Estate in Do- 

 miuica (n. 139), una cum Lecanora prosecha et Placodiu diplacioide. 



3. Thermutis. 

 1. T. VELUTiNA (Ach.) Fr. Syst. Orb. Veg. (1825) 302 ; Tb. Fr. 

 Lich. Arct. 286. Gonionema velutinum Nyl. Ess. Classif. (1855), 

 163 ; Syn. Lich. 88 ; Licb. Scand. 23, 45. Ad rupem in Chateau 

 Belair m St. Vmcent (n. 236). Hyphis parcis supra Scytonema 

 myochroitm, at sine apotbeciis. 



(To be continued.) 



THE MOSSES AND HEPATICS OF STAFFOEDSHIRE. 

 By James E. Bagnall, A.L.S. 



Mr. Eobert Garner, in bis valuable and comprehensive work 

 on The Natmril History of Staffordshire, published in 1884, enume- 

 rates 110 Mosses and 20 Hepatics as native of the county, localising 

 only the more rare. Many, however, of the localities given are not 

 in Staffordshire, but in one or other of the neighbouring counties, 

 Worcester, Derby, and Cheshire, only 65 of the mosses and 17 

 hepatics being localised for this county ; these I have quoted in 

 proper sequence, indicating them by the initials B. G. after the 

 locality. 



Finding so little had been done in the bryology of Staffordshire, 

 I decided two years ago to take up the matter myself, and I was 

 promised notes and assistance from some of the leading botanists 

 of the county. Only one, however, has fulfilled this promise ; this 

 gentleman, the Rev. A. Ley, M.A., has very kindly sent me a 

 number of specimens aud notes, mostly from the Dove Dale and 

 the Wetton Valley, which are duly quoted. I have also a few notes 

 from Dr. John Eraser, who did some excellent work in the county 

 years ago. With these exceptions, I am myself responsible for the 

 following list, in which are recorded about 343 species and varieties 

 of Mosses, and 79 of the Hepaticae. Although this record is better 

 than 1 anticipated, I believe it to be far from exhaustive ; an area 

 of some 729,000 acres can scarcely be exhaustively worked in two 

 seasons. 



Sphaymim acuti/olium Ehrh. Beaudesert, Brindley Valley, 

 Cannock Chase ; Treutham ; Chartley Moss ; Ramshorue ; Mor- 

 ridge Top. — Var. ruhellum Wils. Sherbrook Valley ; Brindley 

 Valley, Cannock Chase ; Chartley Moss. — Var. elcgans Braith. 

 Sherbiook Valley, Cannock Chase. — Var. Idte-vinns Braith. Dim- 

 miugs Dale, near Alton ; Chartley Moss, Star Wood, Oakamore ; 

 Brindley Valley. — Var. patulum Schpr. Sherbrook Valley ; 



