A HISTORY OF NORTHAMPTONSHIRE 



ARBOREAL MOSSES 



Tetraphis pcllucida, Hedw. Orthotrichum Schimperi, Hamm. 



Cinclidotus Brebissoni, Husn. — obtusifolium, Schrad. 



Ulota phyllantha, Brid. Neckera pumila, Hedw. 

 Orthotrichum Sprucei, Mont. 



AQUATIC MOSSES 

 Fissidens crassipes, Wils, Cinclidotus fontinaloides, P. Beauv. 



LIVERWORTS {Hepatica) AND LICHENS 



The first-named group of plants is at present almost untouched in 

 Northamptonshire, and little of interest can be said about them, for 

 though the late Mr. Robert Rogers paid some attention to the subject, 

 the list he drew up, chiefly from the neighbourhood of Yardley Chase, 

 contains only the common and widely distributed species. 



The lichens have received as little attention as the hepatics. No 

 resident botanist has studied them, and the only records of any kind, with 

 the exception of one or two in Morton's History, are based on a small 

 collection made by Mr. W. H. Wilkinson of Birmingham, in the 

 neighbourhood of Fawsley, upon the occasion of the visit to North- 

 ampton of the Midland Union of Natural History Societies in 1888 ; 

 a list of these appears in the Journal of the Northamptonshire Natural 

 History Society, vol. v. p. 149, where special reference is made to a rare 

 form, viz. the var. rubiginea of JJsnea barbata. 



FUNGI 



The long residence in Northamptonshire of the late Rev. M. J. 

 Berkeley, one of the greatest of British mycologists, would lead us to 

 expect the fungi of the county to have been extensively studied, and this 

 is undoubtedly the case. Owing however probably to the pressure of 

 more important work, he never drew up a list of local forms ; and 

 strangely enough, enthusiastic botanist as he was, he does not appear to 

 have succeeded in enlisting any other workers in this district in that 

 branch of botany in which he was a recognized authority. Such a list 

 might be drawn up — not without considerable labour — by collating the 

 numerous Northamptonshire records scattered throughout his collections 

 and writings. 



A few incidental references in the course of presidential and other 

 addresses are all that appear in the records of the County Natural History 

 Society. These references however, scanty as they are, indicate the 

 arduous work carried out by the writer, and prove that the woods of 

 Northamptonshire may be made to afford a rich field to the trained eye 

 of the student of fungi. From these references one or two citations of 

 considerable intrinsic interest may be made. 



' If variety of soil affords us an unusually abundant flora, the large 



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