A HISTORY OF STAFFORDSHIRE 



Bromus racemosus, L. 2, 3 



secalinus, L. 3 



commutatus, Schreb. z, 3, ; 

 Brachypodium sylvaticum, R. & S. 1-5 



pinnatum, Beauv. 3 

 L.olium perenne, L. 15 



b. italicum, Br. 3 

 Agropyrum caninura, Beauv. 3-5 



- repens, Beauv. 1-5 

 Nardus stricta, L. 15 

 Hordeum pratense, Huds. 2-4 



murinum, L. 14 



FILICES 



Hymenophyllum unilaterale, Willd. l 

 Pteris aquilina, L. 15 

 Lomaria Spicant, Desv. I, 35 

 Asplenium Ruta-muraria, L. 2-5 



- Trichomanes, L. 1-4 



viride, Huds. 2 



Adiantum-nigrum, L. 1,2 



filix-foemina, Bernh. 1-5 



b. rhaeticum, Roth. 2-5 



Ceterach, L. 2, 5 

 Scolopendnum vulgare, Sm. 3, 4 

 Cystopteris fragilis, Bernh. 2, 3 

 Aspidium aculeatum, Sw. 2-5 



- lobatum, Sw. 24 



- angul.ire, Willd. 2, 4, 5 

 Nephrodium Filix-mas. 1-5 



b. affinis, Fisch. 2-4 



c. Borreri, Newm. 2, 3, 5 



cristata, Rich. 3, 4 



b. uliginosum, Newnm. 



- spinulosum, Desv. 2-5 



dilatatum, Desv. 2-5 



Nephrodium Thelypteris, Desv. 3, 5 



Oreopteris, Desv. 2, 3, 5 

 Polypodium vulgare, L. 1-5 



Phegopteris, L. 3 



Dryopteris, L. 2, 3, 5 



Robertianum, Hoffm. 2 

 Osmunda regalis, L. I, 3, 5 

 Ophioglossum vulgatum, L. 25 

 Botrychium Lunaria, Sw. 1-3, 5 



EQUISETACE./E 

 Equisetum arvense, L. 



maximum, Lam. 2, 3, e 



sylvaticum, L. 2-4 



palustre, L. 1-5 



b. nudum, NeWm. 3, 4 

 limosum, L. 2-4 



b. fluviatile, L. 2-4 



variegatum, Schliech. 2, 3, 5 



LYCOPODIACE/E 

 Lycopodium clavatum. 1-4 



- inundatum. 2, 3, 5 



- Selago, L. I, 3, 5 



MARSILEACE.* 

 Pilularia globulifera, L. 1,4, 5 



CHARACE.S 

 Chara fragilis, Desv. 35 



d. Hedwigii, Kuetz. 3 



- hispida, L. I, 3, 5 



- vulgaris, L. 2, 3, 5 

 Nitella translucens, Agard. 3, 4 



- flexilis, Agard. 3, 5 



opaca, Agard. 3 



THE MOSSES (Musci) 



Although a considerable area of Staffordshire is thickly populated 

 and has the contaminated neighbourhood of busy centres of industry, 

 there are still large stretches of undulating moorland, usually watered 

 by streams liable to flooding, with marshy and boggy surroundings favour- 

 able to a rich growth of mosses and their moisture loving allies the 

 hepatics. Such is Sherbrook Valley, and there are many similar valleys 

 north of Cannock where are found many of the rarer sphagnums, such 

 as Sphagnum viride. Again west of Cannock are the remains of what 

 were formerly extensive bog lands, such as Norton bog, where is the rare 

 S. tenellum, and near Uttoxeter, in the deep and treacherous Chartley bog, 

 are many of the sphagnums and other moisture loving species, such as the 

 rare Polytrichum strictum. The woodlands of the county, though ex- 

 tensive, are usually dry and rarely the homes of any but the more com- 

 mon species ; but some of the woodlands around Gnosall and Norbury 

 yield rarer mosses, such as the hair moss Polytrichum graa'/e, Bryum uligi- 

 nosum and Fontinalis squamosa and other rare species ; and the rich wood- 

 lands of the south-west have yielded some of our rarest species, such 

 as Fumaria ericetorum, Pterygophyllum lucens and the rare Heterocladium 



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