l82 THE FLORA OF HALIFAX. 



Physcomitrium pyriforme, Brid. {Bryum, L. ; Gymnostomum, 

 Hedw.) 



1775. /. Bolton. Scout, Harley Wood.- -Herb. Leyl. 



1840. Harley Wood.—/. Nowell, Baincs Fl. 



1888. Harley Wood. — A. Stansfield, Lees' Fl. 



1892. Canal side, Salterhebble. — H. T. Soppitt. 



Funaria ericetorum, Dixon. {Gymnostomum fasiculare (non 

 Brid.) Sm. Eng. Bot. ; G. ericetorum, Bals. De. Not. ; 

 Physcomitrium ericetorum B. & S. ; Entosthodon ericetorum, 

 C. Muell. ; Funaria obtusa, (Dicks.) Lindb.) [Supp. 



1854. Moist banks in a field at Hartley-royd.— J. Nowell, 



Langfield Moor, etc. — Herb. Leyl., labelled G. fasiculare, 



1888. Hudson Clough. — A. Stansfield, Lees' Fl. [Hedw. 



There is no specimen in what remains of Nowell's her- 

 barium, but in 1901 Mr. C. E. Moss met with a packet 

 in Sexey's Trade School museum, Bruton, Somerset, of 

 Nowell's gathering, labelled " Physcomitrium ericetorum, 

 B. & S. Moist banks, Todmorden, i860." 



Funaria hygrometrica, (L) Sibth. {Bryum hygrometricum, (L) 



1775. /. Bolton. [Huds.) 



Banks and walls near Todmorden. — Herb. Nwl. 



Very common : the stations where it has been noted are too 



numerous to give in detail. It likes dry banks, waste 



ground, sides of cindered paths, and about greenhouses, 



either in the wall crevices or in the plant pots ; it has a 



special preference for scorched ground where a little 



charcoal remains ; and, for one or two seasons the lime of 



new walls, or where lime has been mixed. It often 



grows in extreme abundance. 



MEESIACE.S3. 

 Amblyodon dealbatus, P. Beauv. {Bryum dealbatum, Dicks). 

 1833. Stansfield Moor. — Herb. Leyl. [J. Nowell, Supp. 



1854. On ground co\ered with lime, Stansfield Moor. — 

 Moist places, Stansfield Moor. — Herb. Nwl. ; Brit. M. Fl. 



Aulacomnium palustre, (L.) Schwgr. {Mnium L. ; Bryum, 

 1775. /. Bolton. [Neck.) 



Midgley, Rushworth, Stansfield, and other moors. In fruit 

 (fruit rare). — Herb. Leyl. 



