SCAl'AXIA. 221> 



Specimens were .submitted to bis IrieiKl, the late Dr. Spruce, wbo 

 gave it a MS. name wbicb, bowever, was never publisbecl. 



In Part I. of Husnot's "Hep, Gall." p. 22, it is publisbed as 

 S. nemorosa, var. infcniicdia, and on Plate 111, Fig. 23, given as 

 /S'. 'inl('nii('(h((. 



Abbe Lamy, in "Revue Bryol." p. 54 (1876), says be bas 

 observed tins species growing in several ravines about Mont-Dore 

 under different conditions, wbere it retains a perfect conformity of 

 aspect and character, distinguisbing it no less from 8. timbrosa tban 

 from S. iieuiorosa, and be considers it well deserving of specific rank, 

 and approves of the name infer media. 



Tbe acute antical lobe separates it from >S'. /leii/oro.^a and the 

 rotundate postical lobe from S. imihrom at once. 



Note on IScapaiiia iiifertiiedia, Husn., by Mr. M. B. Slater : 



" Scapania intermedia, Husn., approaches in some of its charac- 

 ters to S. piirpurasceni^ (Hook.); it is, bowever, a smaller plant, 

 and resembles more a broad-leaved S. umhrosa ; in cell structure 

 and shape of leaf lobes it much resembles jS. purjourascens. 



"It is generally of a pale rosy colour, often whitish, and never 

 assumes the fine purple colour of some of tbe forms of S. jj/a-pu- 

 rascen-s. 



" The latter plant grows very abundantly in the tributarj- 

 streams of the Esk and other moorland rivulets on the North 

 Yorkshire moors, growing on stones by the stream sides, which 

 are often inundated during flood times, and it grog's most 

 luxuriantly on stones where the water is constantly trickling over 

 its roots, assuming fine rosy and purple hues in places exposed to 

 sunlight, becoming greener under the shade of the stream banks 

 or under trees. 



" S. intermedia always grows on drier rocks out of the stream, 

 often in company with S. urnJjrosa, Diplojjhtjllum albicans, and 

 HarpantJius scutatm. The name is very appropriate to the plant, 

 indicating its intermediate character between S. umhrosa and 

 purpurascens." 



Description of Plate XCI. — Fig. 1. Plants natural size. 

 2. Stem, antical view x 16. 3-7. Leaves x 24. 8. Portion 



