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Of the remaining 11, there are none which one would suppose likely to be 

 met with in this county ; still, among such cosmopolitan plants as Mosses, this 

 hardly justifies us in concluding that our List of the genus is yet complete. 



One other member of the same alliance has been added to our Flora, in the 

 subalpine 



189. Distichium capillaceum, L. This is one of the numerous 

 group which the local Flora owes to the Llanthony hills. Along with Encali/pta 

 ciliata, Bhabdoweissia fugax, Oymnostomum rupestre, Zieria julacea, and others, 

 the Distichium is to be found in tolerable abundance on the Tarens of the 

 Llanthony valley ; and will probably also occur on those of the Hatterel range, in 

 Herefordshire proper. 



We now come to the Bristle Mosses— OrthotJ'icha. One or two of these have 

 been added ; and we may confidently hope that more will yet yield themselves to 

 patient investigation. Those we have now to spe^k of are 



248. Orthotrichum cupulatum, Hoffm., with its variety 

 nudum. The variety is the more general plant ; and delights in stones in or 

 about streams. It grows finely on an old wall by the Wye at the Great Doward, 

 and occurs again at St. Peter's Well, Peterchurch. The type is not confined to 

 stream sides, but occurs on the limestone of the Great and Little Dowards, and 

 again in the Golden Valley, on stones in the Cwm, Dorstone. 



One more fresh BristU Moss we have in 



257. Orthotrichum stramineum, Hornsch. This, though not 

 included in tiie previous list, is now proving itself general in the county. The 

 Rev. J. F. Crouch had found it at Pern bridge as far back as 18G9 ; and lately it 

 has occurred at Kentchurch, in the neighbourhood of Pontrilas, and on Garway 

 hill, D. 1 ; at the Great Doward, D. 2 ; at Brampton Bryan, D. 10 ; and at several 

 spots near Knill, D. 11. 



Among the Brya, or Thread Mosses, I have two additional species to 

 report. The first is 



335. Bryum torquescens, B. & S. This handsome Bryum is 

 claimed chiefly by the Great Doward. I found it there first in 1877, but passed it 

 by as a form of B. capillare. In the present year however I found it in two fresh 

 spots in larger quantity, and succeeded in establishing its claim to the name of 

 B. torquescens. Its narrow clavate capsule, of a beautiful ruljy red when ripe, 

 distinguishes it at a glance, when once learned, from B. capillare. It appears to 

 delight in horizontal ledges of nearly bare limestone ; occurring in old quarries at 

 three stations at the Doward, and again along with other lime-loving plants in 

 the large sandstone quarries at Caplar hill. 



The second species of this genus I have to speak of is a far greater rarity. 

 It is 



349. Bryum canariense, Brid. This again is to be credited to that 

 home of rare plants, the Greater Doward. It was gathered by myself somewhere 

 on the area of the hill, though I do not remember the precise locality, as far back 

 as the year 1874, and remained hoarded among packets of mosses which I was 

 unable to name until the present year, when Mr. Boswell on seeing it at once 



