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and presented the appearance of a single seta up to the point of se- 

 paration, furnished with two capsules ; about twenty with two setae, 

 and the remainder with one only. The moss in a barren state ap- 

 peared to be more abundant than when we first met with it ; but this 

 may perhaps have arisen from the more minute search which we made. 

 It extended far up into the steep woods, flourishing in the greatest 

 luxuriance where the ground was kept in a constant state of moisture 

 by springs or small streams of water from the higher parts. In these 

 places, however, we did not discover any plants in fruit, although we 

 carefully examined them. Our harvest was gathered on, compara- 

 tively speaking, dry ground, — on the land near the river, or, I should 

 rather say, mountain torrent. Here the bright red colour of the setae 

 enabled us to detect the object of our search, growing in the midst of 

 tufts of Hyi^na and other mosses, chiefly around the roots of trees. 

 Few solitary plants in the desired state were met with ; where we 

 discovered one, we always calculated on finding some half dozen 

 within a distance of one or two feet : in one instance we collected up- 

 wards of twenty in a spot of the above limited size. 



Any muscologist visiting this part of Devonshire in December^ 

 would be amply rewarded by a day's stroll in Lydford woods, which 

 are as beautiful as any in the county. He would derive gratification 

 not only from a vasculum well filled with mosses (Bryum roseum, to 

 wit), but from the wild scenery surrounding the rapid Lyd in its course 

 to the Tamar. 



Either the Rev. C. A Johns, Grammar School, Helston, or myself, 

 will be happy to supply any muscologist, to whom this moss in fruit 

 may be a desideratum, with a specimen, as long as our stock of du- 

 plicates enables us to do so. 



W. S. HORE. 

 Trafalgar Place, Stoke Devonport, 

 January 15, 1845. 



JVistmati's Wood and Anomodon curtipendulum. 

 By the Rev. C. A. Johns, M.A., F.L.S., &c. 



Wistman's Wood is situated on Dartmoor, about a mile above 

 Two Bridges, on the left bank of the river. Imagine a mountain 

 stream, creeping slowly among blocks of moss-stained granite ; on 

 either side extends a piece of flat boggy ground, to an inconsiderable 

 instance ; and at the extremity of these the hills rise to the height of 



