Moolljope Jiaturalists' fidis Club. 



EECENT ADDITIONS TO THE HEEEFOEDSHIRE 

 MOSS FLOEA. 



[The following paper on " Recent Additions to the Herefordshire 

 Moss Flora," by the Rev. Augustin Ley, read at Leominster, at 

 the Meeting of the Woolhope Club, held June 19th, 1884, was 

 accldently omitted from the Volume for 1884 where it ought 

 to have appeared at page 177.] 



It is now just four years since I ventured to lay before this Society a list of the 

 Mosses which had been observed in Herefordshire, chiefly through the labours 

 of the Rev. J. F. Crouch, Rector of Pembridge, and subsequently by myself. 

 The Mosses enumerated in that list formed a goodly array of some 249 species. 

 This number, making up far more nearly ^ than J of the total number of species 

 known to inhabit the area of the British Isles, was no unworthy representative of 

 the Moss Flora of a single county, not occupying a position in that area which 

 would suggest a priori any special richness in this department of botany. 



Since that time several additions have been made, and I am sorry to have to 

 add, one, if not more than one, species has had to be withdrawn. Still the gains 

 have been more noticeable than the losses ; and I think it will be allowable now, 

 with the Society's kind permission, to report progress in the Herefordshire Moss 

 Flora. 



Your indulgence is especially needed in a branch of Natural History which 

 interests but few ; and which, to the outsider, can hardly help taking the repulsive 

 form of a list of unknown Latin names, descriptive of entities, the whole universe 

 of which he only knows as "moss." I can only plead, Come inside ! Make them 

 your friends ! There is a little world of interest in these plants, when you get to 

 know them well. 



Well then, not to beat the bush any longer, we have added to our records 18 

 new species ; about each of which I propose, with your permission, to say a few 

 words, taking as before the earlier Catalogue of British Mosses compiled by Messrs. 

 Hobkirk and Boswell for the Botanical Record Club as my basis of classification. 



The first upon my list is 



GO. Oampylopus pyriformis, Brid. This Campyloptis is one of the 

 most common of the genus, and is an old friend of every botanist among the hills 

 and moorlands from Land's End to Caithness. But we did not expect it to have 



