270 PROCEEDINGS COTTESWOLD CLUB 1914 



Hedwigia ciliata Ehrh. 34. On Old Red Sandstone rocks 

 in the Forest of Dean. Near Chepstow (Shoolbred). Rocks 

 in a field near Rodmore Grove. Rocks at Staunton. 



TORTULACE^ 



Acaulon muticum CM. 33. Near Cheltenham (Beach). 

 On the Harford Sands on Cleeve Hill Common, and on the 

 Middle Lias in several woods near Cheltenham ; also at 

 Churchdown. 



Phascum cuspidatum Schreb. 33,34. Common. A small 

 form of this, frequent on the Cotteswolds, has been named var. 

 piliferum bv Rev. H. P. Reader, but the leaves do not end in the 

 long fihform point of this variety. Var. curvisetum Nees and 

 Homsch. {34) growing with the type on Downham Hill, near 

 Dursley. 



Phascum curvicolle Ehrh. 33, 34. Common on the 

 Cotteswolds on bare ground and earth-covered walls. I have 

 not seen a specimen elsewhere, but it is recorded from Black 

 Rock Gully (" The Gully") and Durdham Down, near Bristol 

 (Wheeler). 



Pottia recta Mitt. 33, 34. Widely distributed on the 

 Cotteswolds, but less common than the last. Also on the 

 limestone of the Bristol district (Thwaites, Miss Roper), and 

 Symonds Yat (Miss Armitage). 



Pottia bryoides Mitt. 33, 34. On bare ground, wall tops, 

 and quarries ; not common, but widely distributed on the 

 Cotteswolds. Elsewhere recorded only from Durdham Down, 

 near Bristol (Miss Roper). 



Pottia Heimii Ftirn. 34. Durdham Down, probably by 

 the tidal waters of the Avon (Thwaites) ; Wye bank below Pen 

 Moel (Shoolbred) ; salt spring by R. Leadon below Ketford. 



Pottia truncatula Lindb. 33, 34. Common, except in 

 some parts of the Cotteswolds, where its place is taken by the 

 next species. The Cotteswold plants with the short truncate 

 capsule of this species often have the leaves of T. intermedia. 



Pottia intermedia Furn. 33, 34. Common on the Cottes- 

 wolds, less common elsewhere, and not recorded for the Forest 

 of Dean. 



