HISTORY OF STAFFORDSHIRE. [123 



Hypnum triquetrum, (triangular feather moss) in woods, frequent 



rutabulum, (toothed feather moss) woods, roots of trees, and 



on the ground 



proliferum, (fern feather moss) woods, frequent 

 rarietinum, (wall feather moss) woods, heaths, and shady places 

 Jilidnum, (bog feather moss) wet moors, and boggy ditches 

 crista castrensis, (crested feather moss) amongst the turf on 



marly soil 



prcelongum, (trailing feather moss) rotten wood, and grounds 

 squarrosum, (scurfy feather moss) frequent in soils of the most 



opposite quality 



aduncum, (hooked feather moss) bogs, and wet pastures 

 cupressiforrne, (cypress feather moss) woods, at the roots of trees 

 dendroides, (tree feather moss) woods, at the roots of trees 

 alopecurum, (foxtail feather moss) wet moorish meadows 

 cuspidatum, (spear-pointed bog feather moss) moorish and boggy 



grounds 



purum, (neat feather moss) wet meadows, and dry shady banks 

 sericeum, (silky feather moss) trunks of trees, and on the ground 

 myosuron, (mouse-tail feather moss) woods and hedge banks 

 serpens, (creeping feather moss) ground, sticks and stones 

 velutinum, (velvet feather moss) trees, stones, and ground, very 

 common. 



ALG.E. 



Jungermannia epiphylla, (broad-leaved star-tip) wet rocks 



bidentata, (clover star-tip) moist rocks and ditch banks 

 sphcerocephala, (powdered star-tip) wet rocks near PVind* 



ford mill 



complanata, (flat star-tip) trunks of trees, frequent 

 resupinata, (curled star-tip) wet rocks 

 dilatata, (scaly star-tip) trunks of trees 

 Marchantia polymorpha, (stone liverwort) sides of wells, and rivulets 



conicdy (conic livergreen) side of Daw ford-brook, Blymhill 

 Lichen incanus, (powdery lichen) hedge banks, and trunks of trees 



sulphureus, (sulphur-coloured lichen) walls of Blymhill church 

 scriptus, (lettered lichen) trunks of young trees, Heath-birches* 



wood, Weston-under- Lizard, not unfrequent 

 canescens, (hoary lichen) trunks of aged trees and walls 

 ater, (black-cupped lichen) walls and trees, frequent 

 concentricus, (concentric lichen) IVest on-park-wall 

 niger, (black lichen) lime-stone, Dudley-castle 

 fusco-ater, (black-knobbed lichen) on the bark of young pear 



trees, Blymhill 

 fagineus, (white lichen) bark of beech and other trees 



