THE FLORA OF HALIFAX. l6l 



Polytrichum commune, L. 



1775. J. Bolton. 



1845. Stansfield Moor. — Herb. Leyl. and Herb. Nwl. 

 Common on boggy land, swampy lane and stream sides, etc., 

 has been noted in many such places throughout the whole 

 district ; Crimsworth Dean, in fruit. — /. Needham. 

 Var. perigoniale, (Michx.) B. and S. 

 Strines lane side, Stansfield, 1892 ! 

 Var. minus, Wils. 



Stansfield Moor. — Herb. Nwl. 

 Var. fastigiatum, Wils, M.S. 



1849. Keb Clough and Langfield Moor. — /. Nowell, 



Brit. Moss. Flo. 

 1854. Occurs on Stansfield Moor. — /. Nowell, Snpp. 

 Dixon remarks " The var fastigiatum would seem 

 only to be a form of var. minus." 



Polytrichum urnigerum, L. 



1775. Bolton. 1840. High Greenwood, etc. — Bairns' Flo. 

 Ogden. — Herb. Leyl. Stansfield Moor. — Herb. Nwl. 

 Stansfield Moor. — A. Stansfield, Lees' Fl. 

 This species was accidently omitted from its natural place 

 after P. aloides. 



BUXB AUMI ACE.EJ . 



Diphyscium foliosum, Mohr. 



1840. Stiperden Clough, etc., near Todmorden. — /. Nowell, 



Baines' Flo. 

 1854. Heathy banks below Slopes (? Staups) Mill and other 



places near Todmorden, rare. — /. Nowell, Snpp. 

 1888. Staups Clough, Eastwood ; and Gorple Clough, 



head of Hebden Valley. — T. Stansfield, Lees' Flo. 

 Staups Clough and Hebden Valley. — H . T. Soppitt, Halifax 



Nat., Vol. II, p. 124. 

 Leyland's specimens are from Stiperden Clough 1836, and 



Cliviger 1839, both places just outside the parish. 



Neither Nowell's nor Soppitt's herbarium contains a local 



specimen, nor have I seen one myself. 



DICBANACEJE. 



Archidium alternifolium, (Dicks) Schp. (Phascum altemi folium, 

 Dicks. Archidium pkascoides, Brid.) 



