TORTULACEX. 373 
LEPTODONTIUM JHanpe. 
L. flexifolium Hampe. Brywn Dicks. Didymodon Hook. & Tayl. 
Moorland, in peat or gravel, Rather rare. 
First record, Hook. d Tayl., 1827. 
G1. Moor two miles from Buxton on Manchester Road, Greville in Hook. d: 
Tayl. Charlesworth Coombs; Kinderscout, Watt. Burnt Hill, Hollinworth 
Clough; Combes Moss; moor near Goyt’s Lane; Wildmoor Clough, and near 
Goyt’s Bridge ; foot of Bonsall Plane; Lightwood Reservoir, Barker. 
G2. Moorland near Stanton, Dey (1880). Burbage Brook, Barker. Harland 
Edge, above Beeley. 
WHISSIA Hedi. 
W. crispa Mitt. Phascwn Hedw. Systegium Schimp. Mollia Lindb. 
Bare soil on limestone. Rare. 
First record, The Flora. 
L. Via Gellia. 
P. Markland Grips; between Cresswell Crags and Belph Moor; Scarcliffe 
Park; Pleasley Park. 
W.squarrosa ©... Gymnostomun Wils. Mollia Lindb. =Hymenostomum 
Nees & Hornsch. 
Fallows. Rare. 
First record, Braithwaite, 1885. 
Gl, Stirrup Wood, Scholefield (1868) in Braithw. Banks at Mellor, Scholefield 
m N.D.M. 
W. microstoma (I. Gymnostonum Hedw. Mollia Lindb. 
Bare ground, soil among rocks. Not uncommon. 
First record, Purchas, 1862. 
L. Castleton; Monsal Dale; Miller’s Dale; Lathkil Dale, V.D.M. Buxton, 
Ley (1869). Dovedale, Purchas. Great Rocks Dale, Barker. Horseshoe Dale; 
Deep Dale; north side of Diamond Hill. 
Gl. Roadside between Whaley Bridge and Chapel, at the boundary of 
Fernilee and Chapel parishes; Srigley’s Quarry, near Chapel, Barker. 
G2. Above Mag Clough, Grindleford. 
P. Cresswell Crags; Scarcliffe Park; Steetley Quarry. 
Var. obliqua C.M. 
L. Duke’s Drive, Buxton; Great Rocks Dale, Barker. 
Var. brachycarpa Schimp. Hymenostomum brachycarpum N. & H. 
Tl. Damp clay fields about Yeldersley Lane, near Shirley. “A tall well 
developed form with broad leaves almost entirely plane-margined even to the 
upper perichetial bracts, and with the capsule almost of the typical shape, not 
shortly oval as usual in the variety,” Dixon in litt. 
