262 OXFORD MOSSES. [Septenibe)', 



to the places where it grew, and where I had formerly seen it, I 

 failed to meet with Sedum anglicum, which grows abundantly 

 in many places in the north of Lancashire and Westmoreland, 

 on rocks and stones, especially on grit, rather than on limestone, 

 and nowhere, perhaps, more abundantly than in Langsleadale, 

 above Kendal. 



[Our very kind correspondent sent subsequently the following 

 addendum : — " My son, Joseph Windsor, visited the station of 

 Noli-me-tangere about a month later than the time when I was 

 there. He found, he reports, that the plant is abundant there 

 and in full flower, 27th July.''] 



OXrOED MOSSES. 

 Additions to the List of Oxford Mosses. By H. Boswell. 



In a few preliminary remarks to a list of Mosses sent you 

 last autumn, I hazarded an opinion that the number of species 

 still to be found in this neighbourhood over and above the hun- 

 dred and twenty therein enumerated, would probably not exceed 

 ten. In this I have under-estimated the richness of our local 

 Flora, and undervalued the bryological riches of the district; 

 for since that time myself and my friend Mr. Holliday have 

 discovered as many as thirteen species additional to those before 

 given ; and if so many have been found in nine months, it would 

 seem not unreasonable to hope for yet more, especially as some 

 of these present are by no means such as would have been 

 deemed most likely to form part of the supposed ten. As it is 

 probable that I shall have less time to devote to the subject in 

 future, I now beg to offer you a list of the addenda, as the best 

 reparation in my power to make for the disparagement cast upon 

 the productiveness of the neighbourhood ; and likewise as an en- 

 couragement to such of your readers, if any such there be, as 

 may be, like myself, young in the study, to persevere, and still 

 hope for greater success, however great or however little they 

 may have hitherto found, and to induce them to think nothing 

 done while aught remains to do. 



Besides the new species, five others, formerly given as occurring 

 only in a barreu state, have since been found in fruit. 



