1858.] PIFESHIRE MOSSES. 483 



FIFESHIRE MOSSES. 

 By Charles Howie. 



Phascum cuspidatum, Schreb. On cultivated fields and sandy 

 soil by the sea, as at St. Andrews. — The var. pUiferum is found. 



Phascum subulatum, L. On damp grass-fields ; common. 



Gymnostomum squarrosum. In damp grass-fields south of 

 Craghall Den, Ceres. 



Gymnostomum microstomum, Hedw. On banks, under hedges, 

 Grange Road, St. Andrews, and near Boarhills, etc. 



IFeissia controversa, Hedw. On sandy banks ; common. 



Weissia crispula, Hedw. In Kerrick^s Den, by Boarhills, on 

 the face of a sandstone rock; in a den above Falkland. 



Weissia verticillata, Brid, Under dripping rocks on the east 

 seacoast ; Kenly and Dura Dens, under similar circumstances ; 

 fruiting freely. 



Blindia acuta, Br. and Sch. On the East Lommonds; in fruit. 



Cynodontium Brontonii, Br. and Sch. On the face of rocks, 

 Craghead, below Fawfield. On rocks, Rossie ; and above New- 

 burgh. 



Dicranum pellucidum, Hedw. On the rocks that form the 

 watercourses of dens, as at Ceres^ Kenly, etc. ; it fruits freely. 



Dicranum squarrosum, Schrad. On the west of the county, 

 common ; on the east, more sparingly distributed. Falkland 

 Hill, Lommonds, Mount Hill^ Norman Law, Kenly Den, etc. 



Dicranum varium, Hedw. On wet banks and grass-fields; 

 common. 



Dicranum rufescens. Turn. On wet ground, from Ceres to 

 Cupar, east seacoast, etc. 



Dicranum cerviculatum, Hedw. On peat soil after being broken 

 up, on Bankhead Moss, etc. ; common. 



Dicranum heteromallum, Hedw. On moist peat soil ; common 

 over the county. 



Dicranum scottianum, Turn. On a sandstone rock, Kerrick^s 

 Den, and on several places over the centre of the county. 



Dicranum fuscescens. Turn. On the north side of the sum- 

 mit of Drumcarro Crag, in fruit (associated with Pogonatum 

 alpinum) . 



