.956 HYPNUM ABIETINUM. 
glabrous.” I do not see that Sagina subulata, if almost quite glabrous, 
would thereby become Sagina nivalis. . 
November 10,1863. — 4 
HYPNUM ABIETINUM, Linn. 
By Wituiam Mirren, Esq, A.L.8. 
Reading in the October Journal the notice of Brewer’s ‘Flora of 
Surrey,’ and seeing there the observation that Teucrium Botrys grows 
associated with Hypnum abietinum, Y was thereby reminded of my 
having some years ago gone to Reigate Hill expressly to see this Moss 
in a living state; Dr. H. M. Holman, who published a list of Reigate 
Mosses in one of the earlier numbers of the ‘ Phytologist,’ having 
undertaken to show me where and how it grew, for I must admit that 
on a former visit to the same hills I had not been able to find the 
Moss, although I knew it should be there. My attention was, however, 
at that time drawn away from the chalk hills by the variety of interests 
ing things I was finding on the sandy soils below; of these, Mniam 
stellare, Hedw., was one. On my second visit there was no difficulty 
in finding the Hypnum, but I was disappointed with the specimens, 
my previous idea of the species having been taken from Continental 
and Scottish specimens, which give the notion of a neat and even fo- 
liaged Moss. The Reigate specimens, instead of corresponding in these 
particulars, were dull green, and entirely wanting in that smooth out- 
line and yellowish-green colour so evident in those from other localities. 
Further examination only tended to show that there was à certain 
amount of difference between these forms, but which was the one that 
was found at Hinksey, near Oxford, and mentioned by Bobart, and 
afterwards by Dillenius, who is the authority for the locality, iv 
then impossible to ascertain; for although Dillenius’s figure fairly re- 
presents the same form as that found on the sands of Barrie, it seemet 
unsafe to trust the figure alone, and after examination of all the spec 
mens obtainable the matter was given up, except that the differing 
forms were plaeed in separate sheets to await further light. Servers 
years after this, Mr. Carruthers called my attention to, and kindly 
showed me, Buddle’s Herbarium in the British Museum, and amongst 
‘the Mosses, all now looking as fresh as if gathered yesterday, Wa . 
