364 THE MOSSES OF OXFORDSHIRE. 
clined to at first sight. Any persons accustomed to more westerly 
counties, or to those near the sea-coast, would be apt to despise our con- 
number of species found is not the only point of importance—perhaps it 
is sometimes too much dwelt on—and we have a few very Pee. 
ones, both rare and common ; although in summer the seeker will f 
or none, a winter or spring ramble will afford plenty of mosses to dini 
the eye and occupy the microscope of the student of this highly interest- 
ing tribe of plants; while a diligent search in nooks and corners may 
at any time be reward y the dise very of something rare or new 
The ever of some species that might hav E expected to occur 
m quite as notable as the presence of other But the almost 
total iit of wall ferns is not less striking ; and batiniste from some 
districts would be equally surprised at not finding an Erica in the 
It seems now to be universally thought that some Bero of the 
gouere, s laid down in paN ogia Britannica should be ; and Ihave ` 
ence is not very usual now-a-days, this error easily for- 
n. A mere local list is not the place for introducing changes of 
nomenclature or arrangement; bu ave ventured to in te the 
genera are disposed to go further. For the rest I have followed Schim- 
pers ‘ Synopsis’ he 0), which does not materially differ from the 
: Br yologia Britannica.’ . 
ACROCARPI. 
Bruchide. 
1, Pleuridium nitidum, Hedw., Br. & Sch.; damp ride in Bagley 
1861, 1866. Winter. 
2 cu proces be sandy and gravelly banks ; Shotover, Wheatley, 
uneham, Wychwood Forest, Bagley Wood. ril. 
SP; alternifolium, Br. & Sch.; hedgebanks, between Shotover and 
esden, Wychwood Forest, Bagley ; near the last but not 
with it. April. 
VW eissida. 
4. Systegium annt Phascum, Bryol. Brit.) ; roadside between Weston- 
-the-Green a Gosford ; one small tuft only was found by 
found on a + crue qo near Chiswell Farm, 
6. Weissia tenuis (Gymnostomum); stones in the canal der in several 
places, near Oxford, Kidlington, Heyford, and Banbury; old 
stone- pit in Blenheim Park. June, jii $ 
1: W. microstoma (Gymnostomum, Schrad.) ; between Shotover and 
Cuddesden, with Pleurid. pois la; Bullingdon Green, 
Bagley Wood. April. 
