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Var. b. contortum Schultz. §. contortum Wils., Berk., Hobk. 
In marshes, bogs, and watery places, local, rare in fruit. Sutton 
Park frequent! Coleshill Pool! Coleshill Bog! Arley Wood! 
Bannersly Pool! Drive by Chalcote Wood! Cut-throat Coppice, 
near Solihull! In fruit in a small bog, near Great Packington. 
Var. b. contortum, forma rufescens, Nees and Hsch. occurs in 
small pools in bog, near Packington Park! July. 
Var.c. turgidum Mull. §S. contortum, c. obesum Wils., Hobk. In 
small pools, bog near Packington Park! In bogs above Blackroot 
Pool, Sutton Park! 
Var. d. auriculatum Lind. In drains and wet bogs, rare. Above 
Blackroot Pool! Pool Hollies Wood! near Long Moor Mill Pool in 
drains! Sutton Park. 
13.—S. rubellum Wils. Hlevated places in bogs, rare. On the turfy tufts 
formed by Molinia cerulea in Coleshill Bog! fruiting in July. Dr. 
Braithwaite puts this as a variety of 8. acutifolium in his Sphag- 
naceze Britannice Exsiccate, No. 36, as I think correctly. July. 
16.—S. papillosum Lind. Var. b. confertum. In bogs and near 
streams, rare. Sutton Park! fruiting in bog above Blackroot Pool! 
near stream above Bracebridge Pool! Pool Hollies Wood! July. 
17.—S. cymbifolium Ehrh. In bogs and marshes. S. latifolium 
E. B., 1405. Coughton Lane ; Purt. Vol. II. The most frequent 
Warwickshire species; rare in fruit. Sutton Park! abundant, 
fruiting in Pool Hollies, 1875! Poor’s Wood, Honily! Brown’s 
Wood, near Solihull! Arley Wood! Trickley Coppice! New Park, 
Middleton! Coleshill Bog, fruiting 1876! bog near Packington 
Park! in quarry near Cornels End, fruiting! Fruits, Autumn. 
Var. b. squarrosulum Bry. Germ. In bogs, rare; in several 
places in Sutton Park! Bentley Park, near Atherstone, 1878! 
Var. c. compactum Schultz. On grassy hillocks near streams. 
This form I have only found in Sutton Park! 
WEISSIACER. 
27.—Systegium crispun Hedw. Phascum crispum Wils., Hobk. On 
' banks in fields, rare. In a field near Powell’s Pool, Sutton Park, 
1877! Fruiting, early Spring. 
31.—Gymnostomum tenue Schrad. On sandstone rocks and walls, rare. 
On stone wall at Edgbaston! sandstone rocks, canal, near Row- 
ington! sandstone embankment, Waterworks Reservoir, Aston! 
Fruiting Autumn. 
35.—G. microstomum Hedw. On banks in a sandy or marly soil, local. 
Edgbaston (Cameron!) Olton, canal bank! Maxtoke, near the 
Priory! Sutton Park, on banks near Powell’s Pool! 1877, Baker’s 
Lane, near Knowle! 1879. Early Spring. 
39.—Weissia viridula Brid. Weissia controversa Hedw., Wils., Hobk., 
Berk. Banks, common; near Knowle! Sutton Park! Acocks 
Green! Marston Green! &c. 
Var. b. stenocarpa. Banks, local; near Knowle, Olton Canal bank. 
Spring. 
40.—W. mucronata Bruch. On marly and clayey banks, rare. Olton 
Canal bank, March, 1868! on banks near Duke End ! Spring. 
42.—_W. cirrhata Hedw. On trees, thatch, old palings, &c., frequent. 
Middleton Park! Olton! Solihull! Sutton Park, Maxtoke, near 
Priory! Arley, &c. Spring. 
50.—Dicranella crispa Hedw. On sandstone rocks, very rare. On sand- 
stone rocks, lane out of Sandy Lane, Milverton, April, 1877! Itis 
probable that this species may be found abundantly in some of the 
districts on the Permian, as I find it plentiful on the Permian 
Rocks by the Hamstead Canal, Staffordshire. Fruiting, November. 
