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T. ambigua Angstr. South side of glen at Roslin, Oct. 1897 ; in old 

 quarries at Blackford Hill and Craigiuillar. T. aloides, in old lime- 

 stone quarry at Gilmerton, March 1902. 



T. mutica Lindb. On old saugh, river Esk at Inveresk, Feb. 1903. 



T. intermedia Berk. On rocky ground, Braid Hills, j\Iay 1877. 

 T. ruraliformis has been found at Levenhall Links, Musselburgh ; 

 T. laevipila on old sycamores at Arniston, Woodhouselee, etc. ; 

 T. princeps on wall at Craiglockhart, March 1877, and Nether 

 Habbie's Howe, April 1897 ; T. papillosa on rocks on Braid Hills, 

 April 1905. 



Barbula spadicea Mitt. Torduff, April 1898 ; Cramond. B. rigidula, 

 Kirkuewton, Swanston, etc. B. hirida, Gilmerton, 1902. 



B. cylindrica Schp. i^avelrig, Balerno, c. fr., April 1898 ; Edgelaw 

 Glen, oTi wet rock, June 19U2 ; on old wall near Dalkeith, abundant 

 and fruiting freely, April 1905. The subspecies B. vinealis has for 

 many years grown in profusion on a wall at Balerno. 



B. convoluta Hedw. Side of Bonaly Reservoir, April 1898. 



Leptodontium flexifolium Hampe. Caerketton (south side) and 

 Bonaly Hill, Pentlands. 



Weisia tenuis C. M . On sandstone rocks, right bank of Almond 

 Ijelow Cramond, Feb. 1905, and Bilston Glen, April 1909. 

 jr. ■mucronata was common in an old quarry at Ravelston in Feb. 

 1904. IF. verticillata, Currie, June 1856 (Balfour's Excursions) ; 

 near Cramond, Dec. 1903. 



Cinclidotus fontinaloides P. Beauv. Almond below Cramond Brig, 

 March 1902 ; Glencorse Reservoir, Dec. 1904. 



Encalypta vulgaris Hedw. In 1 824 Greville wrote of this : " extremely 

 aljuiidant ou the mud -capped walls by the roadsides round Edin- 

 burgli," and it was still common thirty to forty years ago ; now that 

 these walls are practically a thing of the past, I seldom see it. 

 Fairmilehead and Crichton, 1897 ; Ratho ; Little France, 1905 ; 

 Craiglockhart, 1909. E. streptocarpa has, on the other hand, beccmie 

 much more plentiful. Greville gave only rocks, Pentland Hills 

 and west side of Arthur's Seat, for it ; now it is abundant on shady 

 stoiie-and-lime walls at Gilmerton, Penicuik, Vogrie, Balerno, 

 Dalmahoy, etc., but never seems to produce cap.sules. E. ciliata still 

 occurs at Nether Habbie's Howe, but in greatly reduced quantity ; 

 and this also applies to most of the other good mosses found there. 

 E. ciliata and some others were still in Bonaly Glen less that twenty 

 years ago. 



Zygodon Stirtoni Sclip. Rocks in Craiglockhart Wood, c. fr., March 

 1902. Z. Mougcotii occurred in Moorfoot (Jlen (along with Andreaea 

 pdrophila, JFeisia rupestris, etc.) in March 1904 ; and near Nine- 

 Mile Burn in May 1902. Localities for Z. viridissimus sltb Penicuik, 

 Newliall, Arniston, Craigmillar, etc. 



Ulota Drummondii Brid. On ash and hazel, Edgelaw Reservoir, June 

 19(j2, along with U. crispa, var. intermixlia. U. pkyllantha Brid., 

 on boulder east of Cramond, May 1902. U. Bruchii is our com- 

 monest species of the genus. 



