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Dicranella varia, (Hedw) Schp. (Bryum rubrum Huds. ; D\ 

 num varium Hedw. ; Anisothecium rubrum Lindb.) 



1775. /. Bolton. 1844. Stansfield. — Herb. Leyl. 

 Moist banks, near Todmorden. — Herb. NwL 



Fairly abundant in places where it does grow at all : near 

 the Lodge, Hardcastle entrance,—/. Needham ; Copley ; 

 in clay bank, Sunny Vale, Hipperholme,— H. T. Soppitt ; 

 Severhills Clough, Soyland ! Red Lane Dike, Stainland. 

 — /. E. Crowther. 



Dicranella Schreberi, (Swartz) Schp. (Anisothecium crispum, 

 Lindb.) 

 Ramsden Clough (Lancashire), Todmorden. — No-well, Brit. 



Moss Flo. 

 1888. Only known on Langfield Moor, Todmorden. — 

 J. Nowell teste T. Stansfield, Lees' Flo. 



There is no specimen in Nowell's herbarium. 



Dicranella squarrosa, Schp. (Dicranum squarrosum Schrad. 



Anisothecium squarrosum Lindb.) 

 Ogden Clough (in good fruit). — Herb. Leyl. 

 Wet banks, Todmorden. — Herb. NwL 



1840. Wet rocks in mountainous situations ; bearing fruit 

 freely in the deep doughs in the neighbourhood of Tod- 

 morden. — Baines' Fl. 



1854. Frequent near Todmorden. — /. Nowell, Supp. 



1862. Halifax.— C. P. Hobkirk, M. and C. Flo. 



1888. Yoredale shale cliff, Hebden Valley. — F. A. Lees ; 

 Todmorden. —T. Stansfield, Lees' Flo. 



Not uncommon in very wet places on the sides of doughs, 

 and swampy mooredge slopes. It is equally at home on 

 the ledge of a wet rock, or on a soaking bed of peat. A 

 fine, almost unbroken cushion a yard in diameter, was 

 seen on a swampy bank, Grain Slack Mooredge, Crims- 

 worth Dean, 1900.—/. Needham ! It has been gathered 

 in Ogden Clough ; Spa and other doughs in Booth Dean ; 

 High-lee Clough, Norland,—/. T. A spin ; Gosport 

 Clough, Stainland ; Saltonstall Moor, etc. ! It is rarely 

 found in fruit in our stations at present. J. Needham 

 gathered fruiting specimens on " scar by the bridge, 

 Hollin Hall, Crimsworth Dean, 1893." 



