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the case is different. We get in the Llanthony district a very fair sample of liill 

 moss vegetation. Without being really rich, the Llanthony hills, botli in tlieir 

 moorland, in the small cliffs (Tarens, as the local name is) which fringe their sides, 

 and in the glens formed by the smaller streamlets, yield a good harvest to the 

 lover of mosses, as they do to the lover of nature in so many of her other aspects. 

 The moorland of the Llanthony hills is certainly barren as regards the subjects of 

 our paper. It is scarcely boggy enough to support many of the Sph(i(/na (Bog- 

 mosses). One or tvi^o of the common kinds are indeed plentiful ; and a curious 

 form of Sphagnum subsccunduni occurs in boggy pools on the Ffwddog, which 

 Mr. Boswell informs me he has not seen exactly rejiroduced elsewhere. One of the 

 Fork-mosses, DicrancUu squarrosa, a common mountain plant, has been found here 

 alone as yet in our district ; Campylojms flcxuosus is sparingly scattered over the 

 hills ; while the curious Lcucohryuni jlaucum, which from its withered appearance 

 an uninitiated person would scarcely believe to be a living plant at all, and 

 Aulacomnium palustrc, are common ; both of them, however, are here barren. 

 The tops of the Hatterel range are the only place where, in Herefordshire, 

 I have seen that noble giant of hill mosses — Poliitrichuni coinniune — so com- 

 mon in more upland districts. Mr. Crouch informs me that it is common in 

 Lyonshall Park, near Pembridge. If you wish to find that pretty little sub- Alpine, 

 Grimmia Donniana, you must walk along the highest ridge of the Ffwddog, and 

 examine closely the rocks on its southern exposure ; here you \vill discover it in 

 small quantities ; or if you are unlucky, you will have to go to the Radnorshire 

 hiUs, in the extreme north-west of our district, where (as for example, on stones 

 along the hillsides, between Rhayader and Nant Gwyllt) it is much more abun- 

 dant and fine. Both the bog Apple-mosses ( Philonotis fontana and calcarea) are 

 also frequent on the Llanthony hills, in the spring-heads, where they accompany 

 Briium pscudotriquctrum, the curly-leaved Hypna, and Ranunculus Lenormaiidi 

 among flowering plants. The last (Philonotis calcarea), is fine, and not rare 

 with fruit. This is worthy of note, as it is said to be a limestone plant. 

 It occurs in similar spots on the western slope of Garway hill. Before we 

 leave the moorland and bog mosses, I may be allowed to call attention to 

 that fine bog — one of the few of any extent which we possess — the Trelleck 

 Bog. Here the moss-hunter will find many more true bog-plants than among 

 the Llanthony hills — things even to put him in mind pf Scotland, as the scenery 

 surrounding the bog emphatically does. Here at Trelleck he will find the 

 Aulacomnium palustrc fruiting abundantly ; here he wll find several of the 

 curly -leaved Hypna, fluitans, and fruiting rcvolvens, and the moorland Dicranella 

 cerviculata ; here he will have a large choice of Sphagna ; the common acutifolium 

 in abundant fruit; cymbifoliurn, subsecundum in several beautiful contorted forms; 

 plumosum in the pools, and others, no doubt, if he is one who can come primed 

 with Dr. Braithwaite's recent papers upon the Sphagna, at his fingers' ends. 

 Here, above all, he will, if he is so fortunate as to hit upon the exact spot, rub his 

 hands over the rare and curious Splaehnum ampullaoeum. The happy and skilful 

 discoverer of it, at this spot, many years ago, was Mr. Burton Watkins, and 

 the way in which I had it pointed out by him to myself, illustrates both the 



