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MOSSES AND HEPATICS OF BAUGH FELL. 



WILLIAM INGHAM, B.A., 

 Vork. 



As there are no records of these plants for tlie district, it will be 

 well to record all that were observed during- the meeting of the 

 Yorkshire Naturalists' Union to this fell on 2nd and 4th Aug-ust 

 1902. 



On 2nd August we drove to Rawthey Bridge through a 

 pouring- and persistent rain, which continued for the greater 

 part of the day and much interfered with the success that would 

 otherwise have been forthcoming. At Rawthey Bridge, about 

 ten miles from our starting-point (Sedbergh), we left our con- 

 vevances, and began to walk for about three miles along the 

 shoulder of Baugh Fell to Uldale Force, a trying walk, owing 

 to the persistent rain, as the shoulder "was very sleep in many 

 places. We soon came to an outcrop of the Upper Silurian 

 rocks, forming the habitat of the following mosses : — Grimniid 

 apQcarpa Hedw. ; Rhacomitrinmlamiginosum Brid.; TricJiostcmuim 

 tortuosum Dixon, in large masses; Zygodon viridlssimus Brown, 

 on a tree ; Polytrichiim piliferum Schreb. ; Hypmim cupressifonne 

 var. tectoruni Brid.; and Hypmim Schi'eheriV^iWXd.. 



Not far away, the outcrop of Mountain Limestone rocks 

 produced the following mosses: — Dicrmuun scopan'nni Hedw.; 

 Fissidcus decipieiis DeNot. ; Barbula fa/lax Hedw. ; Ditrichuni 

 flcxicanlc Hpe.; Tortula subiilata Hedw.; Weisia nipcs/n's CM., 

 in abundant fruit ; Trichostomum torfuosum Dixon ; Toriitla 

 intermedia Berk.; Barbula rubella Mitt.; Bryiiin capillare L. ; B. 

 pallejis 'Sw.\ RJiacomitrium lamigiuosum Brid.; Milium ro stratum 

 Schrad. ; OrtJiotrieJium anomalum var. saxatile Milde ; Grimmia 

 apQcarpa Hedw. ; Enealypta streptocarpa Hedw. ; Bartrafiiia 

 QLderi S\\'., c.fr. ; Philonotis fontana Brid.; Xeckera crispa xa-V. 

 falcata Boul., in large silvery niasses, with stems curving 

 upwards and looking much like a large hepatic ; Isotheciiiin 

 my It nun Brid.; Eurhynchium striatum B.&S. ; Hypmim mol- 

 lusciim Hedw., in large patches on the dry rocks ; Hypmim 

 ctipressiforme L., a frequent moss on these rocks ; Eurhyncliium 

 prcelongiim B.&S. and E. .Sw^r/af// Hobk. ; associated with the 

 Bartramia (Ederi Sw. is the rare hepatic Scapania aspera Mull, 

 et Bern., of delicate green colour. 



Close by these rocks grows Polytriehiim alpiniim L., and, 

 twining round its stems is the very filiform-stemmed hepatic 

 Lepidozia Pcarsoni Spruce, a new hepatic for Yorkshire. On 



1903 March 2. 



