IJRTOLOGICAL NOTES. 273 



Bryolog-ical Notes. 

 By D. A. Boyd. 



[Read 30th May, 1905.] 



Having recently had occasion to examine some memoranda 

 relating to Mosses collected by me in the West of Scotland about 

 twenty years ago, I have noted a few details regarding the 

 occurrence of certain of the rarer species in localities within the 

 Clyde Area, and also some instances of fertile specimens having 

 been observed of species which are more commonly obtained in a 

 barren condition. A few other notes, chiefly relating to 

 subsequent observations or discoveries, have been added, along 

 with some records from places outside the range of distribution 

 indicated in Mr. Murray's List of the Mosses of the Clyde Area.* 

 About the period referred to, I had the privilege of 

 corresponding with the late Mr. Henry Bos well, F.L.S., 

 Oxford (afterwards one of the Corresponding Members of this 

 Society), and submitting to him many specimens collected in the 

 western district. His kind aid — at all times readily and 

 generously rendered — in confirming or correcting the identification 

 of species, not only added greatly to the pleasure of bryological 

 pursuits, but enabled certainty to be obtained regarding many 

 doubtful points which might probably have otherwise remained 

 undetermined. In a good many instances, specimens of mosses 

 which had thus been submitted to Mr. Boswell were exhibited by 

 me at former meetings of this Society, but the fact of their having 

 been certified by him is not expressly stated in the notices 

 regarding them in the Society's Proceedings. In the following 

 list, the usual mark of authentication (!) is appended to names 

 of localities where specimens submitted to Mr. Boswell were 

 obtained : — 



Cynodontluiu polycarpum (Ehrh.) Schp. — West Kilbride ! Green 

 Hill, parish of Dairy. 



* Fauna, Flora, and Geology of the. Clyde Area ; Published by the Local 

 Committee for the Meeting of the British Association at Glasgow (1901), 

 pp. %-105. 



