HOLIDAY AMONGST NORTHERN MOSSES. 



Ri:v. C. II. BINSTEAD, 

 lireinton Vicarage, Herefoi-d. 



On 30th June 1902 1 met two iViends — Rev. A. Ley, of Sellack, 

 Herefordshire, and Rev. W. R. Linton, of Derbyshire — on 

 the way North, our destination being" Chapel-le-Dale, situated 

 between Whernside and Ing-leboroug^h. Mr. Ley had been there 

 in the previous year, and found the region so rich in Hawkweeds, 

 in which he is specially interested, that he determined to visit 

 it agfain and asked us to accompany him. We arrived in the 

 evening- of one of the few hot days granted to us during 

 a memorably dismal summer. The object of my visit being 

 mosses, in the search for which I found Mr. Linton an 

 enthusiastic companion, the wet and cold weather that had 

 prevailed during the early summer was a matter of some 

 indifference, and decidedly better for these plants than the 

 droughts which we have had in some recent years during^ the 

 holiday season. We spent four days at Chapel-le-Dale, and 

 from there explored the fine gorges above Ingleton, the mist 

 and wet that mosth- prevailed rendering the high ground 

 uninviting. It goes without saying that in such gorges the 

 mosses were numerous, and amongst other species which we 

 found must be mentioned in particular the rare and little-known 

 Hypniim incurvatiun Schrad. I had long wished to visit the 

 Ingleton neighbourhood in order to investigate the habitat 

 there of this species with which I had become somewhat 

 familiar through having found it in several localities about 

 Kendal, the only other district, so far as I am aware, in which 

 it occurs in Britain. Mr. Linton and I had the pleasure of 

 finding- some good patches in perfect fruit, and it was with 

 no little satisfaction that we observed it in several places. 

 Other species worthy of remark were Swartzui montana Ldbg. 

 on damp rocks near the stream in owo. of the gorges (fruit 

 abundant), and Mniiuii ortJiorrhynicJiiini B.&S., which grew in 

 large tufts in the sandy deposit about rocks near one of the 

 waterfalls, but no fruit was found. 



On 3rd July we visited Heseltine Ghyll, and there found 

 the rare Zygodon gracilis Wils. on limestone walls which, but 

 for the occurrence of this moss, would have been quite unin- 

 teresting ; and occasionally in similar habitats we found rather 

 ^oox Pseudoleskea catemilaia B.&S. It struck me as remarkable 



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