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It is not claimed that the list given is an exhaustive Flora 
of the moor. Probably many common things have been ‘over- 
looked. But it is given as a basis to which additions may be 
made from year to year, and it may in the meantime be noted 
that of the 98 British orders of Flowering Plants, 89 are repre 
sented in Cumberland, and 38 of these on Kingmoor, the actual 
number of species as so far recorded being 122 as against some 
1,200 for the whole of Cumberland and 2,075 for the whole of 
Great Britain and Ireland. 
MossEs AND LIVERWORTS.—Mr. J. Murray writes :—The 
following plants were found during a visit on April 11th, 1914 :— 
Sphagnum squarrosum Pers., was the only species of bog moss 
found, all the specimens being very stunted. A plant super- 
ficially very like a Sphagnum, but very different under the 
microscope, was Leucobryum glaucum Schp., several large 
tufts of which were noticed. On several places where fires 
had been, the large round tufts of Funaria hygrometrica Sibth., 
had sprung up. On the dry banks the reddish purple tufts of 
Ceratodon purpureus Brid. were just maturing their fruit, and 
added colour to the black earth. A moss which I found on 
the moor some years ago, but which I could not find again this 
year, was Ephemerum serratum Hpe. This is one of the smallest 
of mosses, resembling a green film on the ground, so is not easy 
to detect. On these same dry banks Mniwm hornum Linn. was 
fairly abundant, but had not come into fruit, nor were the 
male catkins found. At the northern end of the moor, and in 
the wettest parts were several characteristic mosses, Hylocomium 
triquetrum B. and S., with its recurved leaves was conspicuous. 
Two others growing in fair quantity were Hypnum Schreberi 
Willd. and AHypnum palustre Huds. Hypnum cupressiforme 
Linn. with its strongly falcate leaves, was common both in 
separate tufts, and mixed with the above named mosses. 
Some of the plants came very near the var. ericetorum B. and S, 
Barren tufts of Dicranum scoparium Hedw. were not rare. 
Only three common species of liverworts were found :— 
Calypogeia trichomanis Linn. growing over mosses ; Lophocolea 
bidentata Linn. on dead wood, and Diplophyllum albicans Linn. 
on the edge of a ditch. 
This list is somewhat meagre, but the locality is not a good 
one for either mosses or liverworts. Others will yet be found, 
but probably 50 or 60 species will be all that will be discovered. 
aoe 
We have received an interesting volume entitled ‘The Break-up of 
Europe,’ a prophetic translation of Claudian’s Masterpiece against Rufinus 
in two books (translated from the Latin of Claudian), re-printed a.p. 1914 
by W. W. Strickland, B.A., Trinity College, Cambridge. It is printed and | 
published by R. H. Smithson & Blanchard, Yorkersgate, Malton. The 
author, Sir Walter Strickland, is a member of a well-known Yorkshire 
family, and his present work is especially appropriate at the present time. 
1915 July 2. 
