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NEW AND RARE YORKSHIRE MOSSES 

 AND HEPATICS. 



W. INGHAM, B.A. 

 York. 



Mosses. On i6th August 1905, I found the minute moss 

 PhyscomitreUa patens B. & S. on the bed of a dried up pool 

 on Skipwith Common — a new habitat for the East Riding. On 

 5th September 1905, I noticed the same rare moss in a similar 

 situation at Hevvorth, half-a-mile from York. Both gatherings 

 were in abundant fruit, and both are new habitats. 



On 1 8th May 1903, I found the rare moss Weisia niucronata 

 B. & S. on the side of a path at Ravenscar, on the descent to 

 Robin Hood's Bay. To my list of Mosses of Askrigg and 

 District in the 'Naturalist' for 1905 (page 278) must be added 

 Brytan munile Wils., which I obtained in Whitfield Gill at the 

 meeting of the Yorkshire Naturalists' Union, an addition to 

 North Yorkshire mosses. I got the same Bryum in Jackdaw 

 Crag Quarry, Tadcaster, i6th March 1900, an addition to 

 West Riding mosses. Mr. Dixon has seen both gatherings, 

 and agrees that they are certainly Bryiim niurale. 



Hepatics. Jungermania Goiilardi Husnot. This Hepatic 

 I found on the face of a rock in a wood near Falling Foss, North- 

 East Yorkshire, in September 1905. Mr. Macvicar has 

 examined it also, and agrees that it would be better to make it 

 a variety oi Jungermania sphaerocarpa. The Hepatic is new to 

 the British Isles.* 



Mr. Slater asked me to let him see my gathering, and in 

 ' North Yorkshire,' p. 627, he seems to have determined some of 

 his early gatherings as /. Goulardi after seeing my specimen. 

 Mr. Slater appears to have forgotten that I first recorded this 

 Hepatic for Britain, for it is not entered on p. 627 of the new 

 part of ' North Yorkshire.' 



* See Revue Bryologiqite, Jan., 1906. 



The ' Country Press,' 19, Ball Street, Kensington, has issued twelve 

 post-cards for one shilling, including facsimile prints, popularly and 

 scientifically named, of the leaves of the principal British trees and shrubs. 

 These prints show in their design by Mr. Francis George Heath, the exact 

 venation, or system of veins, in the cellular tissue of each leaf, giving to 

 each figure represented a very marked and interesting individuality. 



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