481. Burhynchium striatulum, Spruce. This again is a Moss 

 which has been looked for in vain in Herefordshire for some years. It is a rare 

 Moss, loving shady limestone ; in which situation it has been this j'ear found at 

 two stations on the Great Doward, and in fair abundance. 



We have an extremely limited surface of bog and marsh in our county, and 

 are consequently poor in bog plants. Even such common marsh mosses as 

 Hypnum fluitans and cordifnlium are far to seek in Herefordshire, the latter being 

 quite a rarity. It is, therefore, with pleasure that I can add 



519. Hypnum Sendtneri, Schp, to the county lists. This is the 

 name given for me by Mr. Boswell to a falcate Hppnum occupying a considerable 

 space of ground on the site of the old Dam pool on Howie Hill near Ross. It 

 grows at this spot with extreme luxuriance, but I have not yet found its fruit. 



The last on my list of novelties is due rather to change of nomenclature 

 than to additional research. It is 



526*. Hypnum virescens, Boulay. This plant was until lately 

 combined as a variety with H. falcatum, and lias now been erected into a separate 

 species. It differs both in habit and colouring from that moss. Both are 

 inhabitants of Herefordshire, and in our countj' the present Moss seems to be the 

 rarer plant, and has only been detected in the lower country, while true H. 

 falcatum is abundant also in the hills, where it fills the spring-heads of the open 

 sub-moorland ground. 



It must not be thought that the enumeration of the above 18 fresh species 

 exhausts all, or nearly all, the work which has been done among the Hereford- 

 shire Mosses within the last four years. On the contrary, the experience of 

 every botanist will tell him how small a proportion of the notes relative to plant 

 life which he thinks it worth while to place on record at the end of a day's ramble 

 refer to new species, and how many to new facts bearing upon plants previously 

 known. The real work must be measured by a comparison of the details which 

 will, we trust, be shortly published in the forthcoming Flora of the county with 

 those appearing in the original paper on the Mosses of Herefordshire. These, 

 however interesting to the special student, would be tedious to introduce into a 

 paper like the present. 



Some noticeable features, however, crop out from these details, which are 

 capable of being stated with interest, and with a few of these I will conclude. 



Three of the fourteen botanical districts, lying in the east of the county, 

 had, at the time when this subject was brought before you previously, been 

 scarcely touched, as far as Mosses are concerned. The Ledbury, Frome, and 

 Bromyard districts have now had a certain amount of work done in them, with 

 the result that 36 of the most common species are now ascertained to grow in each 

 of the 14 districts ; that is, practically, over the whole of the area covered by the 

 Herefordshire Flora. These are as follows : — 



Weissia viridula Neckera complanata 



,, cirrhata Anomodon viticulosus 



Dicranum scoparium Thuidium tamariscinum 



Didymodon rubellus Isothecium myurum 



