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" It is hoped that those who use this book will favour the author with information 

 of any (even the slightest) addition, correction or alteration that may appear to be ne- 

 cessary, in order that it may be employed in the preparation of a future edition, as it 

 is only through such assistance that the Flora of an extensive country can attain to 

 even a moderate degree of perfection.'' — Pref. viii. 



We think that the cause of British Botany could scarcely be better 

 served than by the extensive circulation of this work, especially if its 

 possessors are not sparing of either their criticism or their labour, the 

 one in discovering and pointing out to the author any errors into whicli 

 he may have fallen— the other in furnishing him with additional ma- 

 terials, the stock of which is as yet far from being exhausted. 



Art. CLl V . — Varieties. 

 323. Lint of Mosses found near Manchester. I have pleasure in 

 sending you the following list of mosses, growing within fifteen miles 

 of Manchester. That it is by no means perfect I am willing to allow, 

 as I have intentionally omitted several species recorded as gi'owing in 

 this neighbourhood, either on account of their exact localities not be- 

 ing given, or from the authority being sometimes questionable. 

 Andrcea alpina. Hills above Staley bridge Anictangium ciliatum. Hills above Staley 



Rothii. Plentiful at Greenfield, bridge. 



Diphyscium foliosum. Greenfield and its 



neighbourhood. 

 Telraphis pellucida. Bredbury wood and 



Blakeley clough. 

 Sphachnum sphtericum and mnioides. 

 Common on all the bogs. 



ampullaceum. Clifton moss. 



Weissia nuda. Lower Broughton and 



Saddleworth. 

 Phascum serratum. Near Dukinfield, on 

 hedge bants. 



altemifolimn. Hedge-banks on 



the Hyde road. 



— subulatum. Very commou. 



axillare. Found occasionally in 



various places. 



patens. Road-side, near Bagu- 



ley Smithy. 



muticum. Hobson found this 



species plentifully near Blakeley, 

 but it has not been met with lately. 



Sphagnum obtusifolium and acutifolium. 

 Common in all the bogs in this 

 neighbourhood. 



■ squarrosum. In boggy pits. 



• cuspidatum. Pits near Ashton 



moss. 



Gymnoxtomum tmncatuhun. Very com- 

 mon, and var. /3. equally common. 



fasciculare. Greenfield &c. 



^ pyriforme. Walls ur Hyde. 



Blakeley. 



— curvirostra. 

 and rocks 



— recurvata. 

 Heywood. 



— lanceolata. 



Common on walls 



Ashworth wood, near 



Hedge banks, near 

 Openshaw. 



— controversa. Walls & rocks, com. 



— cirrhata. Marple, common. 



— crispula. Shawforth moor, near 

 Rochdale. 



— triehodeg. 



field. 

 Grimmia apocarpa. 



On stones at Green- 



On stones in the river 



Tame, near Staley, and at Marj)lc. 



