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gills. It grows on bare turfy-peat. It is rare, but, still, is likely 

 enough to be detected. Few mosses will be found save the common 

 Sphagn II ins {With. S.rigidum),Bryumnntans, and Ceratodon purpureus ; 

 but the possibility of the occurrence of Ceratodon conicus on sandy 

 banks should not be forgotten. It is very like C. purpureus, but the 

 capsule is erect, more regularly cylindrical, fatter, and not grooved, 

 and the stalk of a paler red. It has been gathered nearer Sheffield. 



The known ' flora ' of the undrained peat bog, growing less 

 every year as spaces on the fringe are reclaimed and become black- 

 soiled corn- and potato-fields, is very like that of Thorne Waste, sans 

 half a dozen of its on-lingering rarities. There are three or four well- 

 marked brambles, Rubus fissus, R. lindleianus, R. affinis, and R. 

 umbros7is, Hydrocharis morsus-ra?tcB in the ditches, and probably 

 Stratiotes. Rhynchospora alba, Genfiana pneumonanthe,2ir\d Andromeda 

 polifolia still survive, and in or by the ' new ' Torne and Idle ' rivers ' 

 close by Tunnelpit, near Wroot, Peucedanuni palustre and Cladiiim 

 mariscus occur. 



The Hatfield drain on the north edge of the moor should be 

 followed to Westcar House or Frog Hall (just over the Lincolnshire 

 border), keeping on the moor side of the 'old' Idle river, which should 

 be traced down to the angle of the moor near Tunnelpit, which reached 

 the course should then be north-west, and back across the moor by Lind- 

 holme. Epilobium angustifolium will be seen, perhaps one or more 

 Utricidaria, Lysimachia vulgaris and Lastrea thelypteris. Osmunda 

 too, used to grow on the moor, in thickets, along with 

 Myrica gale. A curious casual — Poteniilla hirta — was found at 

 Lindholme in 1878, probably it will have gone by now ; but ground 

 newly-reclaimed is, for a year or two after being cropped, apt to be 

 prolific in certain erratic or fugitive members of our British Flora. 

 Rhhianihus major Ehrh., and Galeopsis ochroleuca, are two of 

 these erratic natives ; both, but the first-named especially, have a way 

 of appearing in corn- or potato-fields for two or three years after 

 they have been reclaimed, then vanishing. A good look out 

 should be kept, therefore, for these on the newest fields nearest the 

 undrained bog. Cala?nagrostts lanceolata and C. stricta should also be 

 watched for, the latter a narrow, graceful Reed-grass, in the boggy 

 thickets and on hill-sides. All Sparganium seen in advanced condition 

 should have its fruiting spheres examined, to determine whether 

 S. neglectum Beeby occurs, or only the commoner S. ramosum. 



The narrow-leaved, verticillate variety of Lysimachia vulgaiHs 

 known as angustifolia Wats., has been gathered near Barnby, and 

 Galeopsis ochroleuca thereabout also. Hieracium umbellatuui is the 

 Hawkweed, par-excellence, along with Senecio sylvaticus, of the low 

 sandstone eminences and sandy lanes on the Moor's borders. 



Entomology. 



Little or nothing is known. Mr. F. Arnold Lees noticed 

 Cho7-fobius davus there in 1879, Strenia clathrata, and Eupithecia 

 nanata, Fidonia atomaria, and, he thinks, the Ruby Tiger Moth {Arctia 

 fuliginosa). 



Land and Freshwater Mollusca. 



Mr. W. Denison Roebuck, F.L.S., supplies the following: — 

 There do not appear to be any records for the precise district of 

 this excursion, which will, however, be found very productive in fresh- 



