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Funaria ericetorum Dixon. 34. In woods in the Western 

 part of the County ; rare. Wood below EastcUff, and at base 

 of quarry below Pen Moel in the Wye Valley (Shoolbred). 

 Symonds Yat (Miss Armitage and Binstead). -In wood, Shaw 

 Common near Newent. 



Funaria calcarea Wahl. 33, 34. St. Vincent's Rocks, 

 Clifton (Thwaites) ; Symonds Yat (Miss Armitage) ; Wye 

 Valley near Pen Moel ; on ant-hills, Cleeve Hill, Cheltenham 

 (Beach) ; near Seven Springs, by the Windrush (near Bourton- 

 on- the- Water) ; Woodchester (Reader). This moss is abundant 

 on the limestone of the Avon Gorge near Bristol. Elsewhere 

 it has been found only sparingly. In Thwaites' list this plant 

 is named Funaria Muhlenbergii var. patula. 



Funaria hygrometrica Sibth. 33, 34. Common. 



MITESIACE^ 



Aulacomnium palustre Schwaeg. 33, 34. Common in 

 the Forest of Dean ; also May Hill and Chase End Hill. Rare 

 elsewhere. Yate Common. Heath near Moreton-in-the-Marsh. 

 Fruit not found. 



Aulacomnium androgynum Schwaeg. 34. Sandy banks ; 

 rare. Near Bristol (Thwaites). Mitcheldean Meend (Miss 

 Armitage and Binstead) . 



BARTRAMIACEwS 



Bartramia CEderi Swartz. 34. Pen Wood above Froces- 

 ter (Holmes and Reader) . 



Bartramia pomiformis Hedw. 34. Very rare on the 

 Cotteswolds ; found sparingly at Woodchester Park (Reader), 

 and near Dursley (Miss Gingell). Not common in other parts 

 of the County." Near Bristol (Thwaites), and sparingly at 

 Moorend (Miss Roper) ; near Chepstow (Shoolbred) ; near 

 Mitcheldean ; Bromsberrow. This moss is found near 

 Symonds Yat, but over the border in Herefordshire. 



Philonotis fontana Brid. 33, 34- Not uncommon in the 

 Forest of Dean and occasionally fruiting. Also May Hill c.fr. 

 and Chase End Hill. East of the Severn only on the hill above 

 Southam, near Cheltenham. 



