142 THE FLORA OF HALIFAX. 



Common in damp woods, doughs, stream banks, and 

 marshy ground throughout the parish. 



Equisetum palustre, L. — 106. Marsh Horsetail. 

 Native. British type. P. June-July. 



1790. On the banks of the canal below Mear Clough bot- 

 tom, near Halifax, plentifully, along with the two former 

 species. — •/. Bolton ; Fit. Brit. ii. 



Infrequent, in boggy ground, ditches, &c. : Ogden, Mixenden, 

 Hipperholme, Tag Lock, Elland Park Wood, Copley, 

 Luddenden Dean, &c. 



Equisetum limosum, Sm. — 107. Horsetail. 

 Native. British type. P. June-July. 



1833. In the canal near Mytholmroyd. — Herb. Leyland. 



1867. Shibden. — /. Walker. 



Infrequent, in ditches, streams, and marshy places : Ogden, 

 Mixenden, Tag Lock, Sowerby, Dean Head Clough, Cob 

 Clough, Bogden Clough, Withens Clough, Colden Clough. 



Equisetum hyemale, L. — 41. Shave-grass. 

 Native. Scottish type. P. August. 



1775. In a rotten marshy place near Mixenden mill; in a 

 marshy place at the bottom of Northdean in Greetland, 

 found there by Mr. Stephen Hartley. — /. Bolton. 



1 790. In a field belonging to an estate called Upper Brier, 

 in Northowram. — /. Bolton ; Fil. Brit. ii. 



In a clough at Upper Brier in Northowram, nearly opposite 

 to Belvedere. — Herb. Leyland. 



1888. North Dean bottom, in Greetland. — F. A. Lees. 



Has always been rare, and Lees' confirmation of an old 

 station is the only recent record. 



LYCOPODIACEJE. 



Lycopodium Selago, L.— 88. Fir moss. 

 Native. British type. P. July. 



1666. At Dovestones, in the side of Yorkshire, near Wid- 

 riop. — C. Merrett ; Pinax, 25. 



1775. Upon Warley, Rishworth, Sowerby and Norland 

 moors, generally upon the highest places thereof.—/. Bolton. 

 Norland Moor, &c, frequent. — Herb. Leyland. 

 1840. Moors near Halifax, Todmorden, &c. — Baines' Flora, 



