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464 LICHENS GROWING NEAR SETTLE, [June, 



conclusive against the idea of hybridity. I hope that such may 

 prove to be the case ; for I greatly dislike explaining difficulties 

 by its agency. I believe that hybrids are ^exceedingly rare^ when 

 plants are left to themselves^ in their native places ; and that the 

 ascription of hybridity to a plant is usually simply a mode of 

 hiding our ignorance of its true place in Nature. Generally such 

 plants are either extreme forms of species, or are specifically dis- 

 tinct. I hope that Mr. Baker may be able to prove that the 

 latter is the case with his plant. Mr. Baker's statement is satis- 

 factory, as being a decided answer to what had been Jt^d_tq me, 

 , ;^r^') viz. that the E. palustre is abundant in company with ^^-%m- 

 latum; and also, if my memory does not deceive me, that E. 

 ohscurum grows there. "^ 



I shall be exceedingly obliged to Mr. Baker for the promised 

 specimens. I have now good shoots springing from the offsets of 

 the same root that produced the flowering stems of last year. 



Note. — A part of this communication, for which we beg to thank Mr. Babington, 

 has been reserved for the present. That which mainly concerns the readers of the 

 ' Phytologist' is printed. The part imprinted and at ovir office will be sent to Mr. 

 Baker, if his friend Mr. Babington will send instructions to that effect. ^Ed. 



LICHENS GKOWING NEAE SETTLE. 

 By John Windsor, M.D. 



{Continued from page 426.) 



Marchantia conic a. Highhill Lane. 

 Marchantia hemisphcBrica. Near Settle. 



(Of the Jungermanni(B, iiear Settle, I have no collection or 

 memoranda.) 

 Beomy'ces roseus. Near Park House, beyond Ingleton. 

 Opegrapha varia. Pretty common. 

 Endocarpon miniatum. Rocks at the north end of Highhill, 



opposite Attermire. 

 Urceolaria scruposa. Wall in Butcher Lane, near Settle. 

 Lecidea geographica. Plentifully on rocks near Park House, 



beyond Ingleton. On rocks or stones between Steeinforsts 



and Pennyghent; also on the banks of the Ribble, near 



Settle. 



