324 Natural History of Thorne Waste. 
moor was quite full of this latter, partly submerged in the water, 
no doubt due to the wet season. 
These two mosses are typical of a peaty moorland; both 
have vegetative methods of reproduction which serve the plants 
if the more ordinary method of spore formation is in any way 
checked. That of Campylopus is well known, leaves break off 
and often cover the barren plants, and such leaves will, under 
favourable circumstances, grow and produce new plants. 
With MWebera nutans, some plants are found with long in- 
novations with adpressed leaves, these elongated stems easily 
break off and may then grow on in a fresh place. 
The mosses seen on the roadsides and walls on the way 
were :—Ducranella heteromalla, Ceratodon purpureas, Barbula 
muralts, B. recurvifolia, and Bryum argenteum. Then on the 
clay banks of the canal Dicranella varia. Getting near to the 
Waste a good wet place was passed with Sphagnum acutifolium, 
Hypnum cuspidatum, H. cordtfolium. This spot would prob- 
ably have repaid a more careful search, but we were anxious to 
get to the Waste. Arriving there, a feeling of disappointment 
came over us, as the place is now far too well drained to harbour 
many mosses. The first two mentioned, Campylopus pyriformis 
and Webera nutans, were the principal, with small patches of 
Polytrichum commune, Dicranella heteromalla, Dicranum sco- 
parium, Brachythecium rutabulum, Eurhynchium myosurotdes. 
The only Sphagnum seen on the Waste was 5S. acudzfolium in 
the wet bottom of the old duck decoy. 
Mr. W. Bellerby adds :—Under a shady bank of one of the 
numerous channels cut through the peat, a large patch of a 
common hepatic, Cephalosia bicuspidata (L.), and Odontoschisma 
Sphagni (Dicks,), were the only hepatice seen. 
A fine mass of Sphagnum fimbriatum (type) of bright 
green colour, was growing in a shady trench and also a slender 
form of the same peat moss, which I sent to Dr. Warnstorf for 
identification, he writes, ‘ The sphagnum sent for determination 
is Sphagnum fimbriatum Wils., var. ¢enuwe (Grav).’ It is a very 
tall, slender and graceful form, bright green above, and with 
lateral gracefully arching branches curving downwards and dis- 
tantly placed, a distinct plant much more slender than the type. 
An interesting lichen growing among Webera nutans 1 sent 
to Mr. Wheldon. It is of white colour with crimson spherical 
fruit, Cladonta Floerkeana forma trachypoda (Nyl.). Mr. 
Wheldon writes, ‘This Cladonia is one of the section of the 
Erythrocarpe and is distinguished from C. coccifera and C. 
digitata by its chemical reaction K-C-.’ 
Naturalist, 
