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In addition to these, four species, which I have failed to meet 

 with in this district or county, have been communicated from 

 the vicinity of Faringdon, by Mrs, IMilne. From the close re- 

 semblance in respect to soil, etc., between the two counties, 

 and their close proximity, it may perhaps be expected that some 

 or all of them may occur in Oxfordshire, as well as in Berkshire. 

 Pliascum alternifoJium. Hedge-banks between Shotover and 

 Cuddesden, opposite the windmills; near, but not mingled 

 with P. subulatum. Fruit, April, May. 

 Phascum crispwn. Koadside between Gosford and Weston-on- 

 the-Green, near Islip. One small tuft was brought by Mr. 

 Holliday, but no more could be found. Fruit, April, May. 

 Gymnostomum tenue. On stones in the canal bank near Wol- 



vercott, in tolerable plenty. Fruit, June. 

 Gymnostomum microstomum. Between Shotover and Cuddesden, 

 mingled with Phascum alternifolium. Roadside through 

 Bagley Wood. April. 

 Pottia truncata, var. major. South Hinksey; scarce. March. 

 Didymodon flexifolius. Powder Hill Copse, fruiting plentifully ; 

 growing in company with Leucobryum glaucum and Campy- 

 lopus torfaceus. February, March. 

 Tortula vinealis. Headington Hill ; fruit very scarce, June. 



Barren in one or two other places. 

 Teiraphis pellucida. North side of Shotover Hill, with nume- 

 rous cyathuli, or cups bearing gemmce, but no fruit. — These 

 gemmas, or buds, are an admirable provision for continu- 

 ing the existence of the plant in the absence of fruit, and 

 very interesting objects for the microscope. Schimper thus 

 speaks of them : — " Cyathuli nullam affinitatem morpholo- 

 gicam habent cum capitulis pseudopodiorum Aulacomnii 

 quEe e foliis abortivis efformantur, dum cyathuli laudati e 

 foliis perigonialibus hypertrophis geque antheridiis defor- 

 matis originem ducunt." 

 Bryum pallescens. Dry bank by the road between Gosford and 

 Weston ; small. Moist bank in a field by the Cherwell, 

 near Parktown ; growing among grasses and Carex glauca, 

 and more than twice as large. Fruit, June, July. 

 Fissid€7is exilis [T. Bloxami). Copse near Watereaton, inter- 

 mingled with F. incarvus. Clay bank near Bagley Wood, 

 in company with F. bryoides. Fruit, Februaiy, March. 



