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taken from the Herbarium of the British Museum : — " On 

 trunk of pollard ash near Cheltenham, May and June, 1855. 

 H. Beach. Herb. Muse. W. Wilson. On young elm trees 

 near Cheltenham on the road to Gloucester, April, 1857 (third 

 station). Mr Beach. On a solitary ash tree at Mickleton 

 tunnel, May 27, 1857. T. Kirk, Coventry. Herb. J. Carroll. 

 Near Chipping Campden, May, 1857. Herb. Muse. W. Wilson. 

 On trunks of trees, Bristol. Herb. H. B. Holl." 



This moss is still to be found on a pollard ash near Chelten- 

 ham, probably the tree on which Mr Beach first found it. 

 Abundant on an elder at the border of Chatcombe Wood, near 

 Cheltenham. This elder was cut down in 1913. On elm at 

 Sherborne, near Northleach. 



SCHISTOSTEGACEiE 



Schistostega osmundacea Mohr. 34. Mr Ley mentions 

 in the " Flora of Herefordshire " and in " The Botany of Mitchel- 

 dean district " that he found this moss in hollows of the Old 

 Red Sandstone conglomerate near Mitcheldean in Gloucester- 

 shire. There were two specimens in his herbarium with the 

 labels " Sandpits near Ruardean, 1873 " and " Mitcheldean, 

 1878." These two specimens probably came from the same 

 locality near the county-boundary, between Ruardean and 

 Mitcheldean. 



FUNARIACE^ 



Ephemerum serratum Hampe. 33, 34. Widely dis- 

 tributed but rare in many parts of the county. In the northern 

 parts of the Cotteswolds it occurs most frequently in woods and 

 fallow fields on the Middle Lias. Common in fallow fields on 

 the sandstone (Trias) about Newent. 



Physcomitrella patens B. and S. 33, 34. At the side of 

 pools and on damp ground, not uncommon in the Severn 

 Valley and on the Cotteswolds. Not recorded from the Forest 

 of Dean or Bristol districts. 



Physcomitrium pyriforme Brid. 33, 34. Common. 



Funaria fascicularis Schp. 33, 34. In fallow fields ; rare, 

 but found in all parts of the County. Common in cultivated 

 fields in the Newent district. 



