again is the home and headquarters of the obscure little Bryum Samesi, which 

 has now been found at many stations in the county, all, however, with the 

 exception of one, on the Uore at Peterchurch, on the Wye banks. It has not 

 yet, I believe, been found elsewhere in Britain except the original station in 

 Cumberland, where Mr. Barnes discovered it. 



Herefordshire may again be claimed as the home of both the Sckropodia, 

 the one species, S. illeccbrum being most abundant in the lane banks of red sand- 

 stone, at least in the south of the county, the other, S. ccespitosum abounding on 

 all the streams. Both species fruit in the county. 



To the Golden Valley may, perhaps, be awarded the distinction of being 

 the home and headquarters, for Herefordshire if not for England — and if for 

 England, then for Europe — of the rare little Eurhynchium Teesdalii. It occurs in 

 rills in numerous stations in the neighbourhood of Peterchurch. I never saw it 

 80 fine as in a rill at Snodhill Park, two miles from Peterchurch. 



It would be as endless as uninteresting to detail all the mistakes and 

 misapprehensions, the opinions expressed, retracted, and re-retracted, which have 

 occurred in the process of eliciting facts like these from Herefordshire hills and 

 dales and river banks. The only permanent mark these misapprehensions have 

 left upon our Moss list is the erasure of a single species from the county catalogue 

 — Bryum erythrocarpum, Schwg. The specimens once referred to this have all 

 proved to belong either to B. murale, Wils., or to B. atro-purpurcum, W. & M., 

 so that for the present, though we trust not permanently, B. erythrocarpum must 

 be acknowledged to be a name and nothing more, in the Herefordshire Flora. 



One curious negative result noticed in the previous paper must be alluded to 

 again here, because four years of further search have greatly strengthened the 

 force of the negation. It was stated there that not a single species of the common 

 Ulotm had been met with in the county. Four years more of extended search 

 have not revealed a single scrap. The absence of these Mosses from the area 

 represented by the Herefordshire Flora appears complete ; though no probable 

 reason fur their absence has been suggested. At least, if not wholly absent, they 

 must be very rare. 



It remains to mention one or two rare species, which have been found, not 

 indeed in Herefordshire, but sufficiently near its borders to justify a place in the 

 annals of the Woolhope Club ; especially as it is not impossible that the attention 

 thus directed to them may lead to tlieir detection within the county itself. 

 Some notice will be found in the Journal of Botany for last year (Vol. xxi., 1883, 

 p. 253) of a Moss new to the British Isles which was found by me in the 

 neighbourhood of Brecon. This Moss, Bryum gemmiparum, De Not., occupies 

 rocks in the bed of the Usk, in small quantity, at a single station near Brecon. 

 Again in the same Journal (id. p. 294), mention is made of a Campyhpus 

 new to science as a variety, and named by Mr. Boswell, Var. elongatus of 

 C. brevifoUus Schpr., which he detected in company with me on the Wye near 

 Aberedw. Both these rarities are quite worth looking for in the higher reaches 

 of the Herefordshire Wye, where ground occurs to some extent of the same 

 character as that which produces them at the other stations named. 



