MOSSES OF THE WEST RIDING OF YORK. 327 
materials for an intelligent estimate . its nature. I leave the name to 
iven when this me, being greatly adverse to the too common 
practice of publishing names for sipenteck and unexplained fossils. 
LANATION OF Pate 187. 
Exp 
Figs. 1 and 2. Specimen from the Old Red Flagstones of Skail,‘Orkney. The 
two figures belong to the same specimen, but it was "how racticable to a 
ig ce of the same TOE the size of ela a Cully, in in 
the same island ; also se the collection of Mr. Both specimens 
now in the British Muse 
ON THE MOSSES OF THE WEST RIDING OF THE COUNTY 
OF YORK. 
Br C. P. Hosxrer. 
(Read at the Meeting of the British Association, Sept. 18th, 1873.) 
In offering this short resumé of the Moss bie of the West 
mom at wd ies of Prof. Lawson, and a mall pe pi ution 
yet 
are almost virgin ground to the bryologist, and I have no ‘oubt that 
around Todmorden has been one of the best explored, chiefly owing to 
the indefatigable labours of my late friend, Mr. John Nowell, of that 
town, with whom I have made several excursions over Pa favourite 
haunts. His researches were not, however, heard is own 
immediate neighbourhood, but extended into the distri te of Malham, 
lapha i 
along with Dr. Carrington. The north-western portion of the Riding 
has thus been well worked by these gentlemen, whilst the south-eastern 
portion southwards from the rivers Calder and Aire, including the 
valley of the Don and the Dearn, the moorlands south of Panistahs: and 
all the districts around Barnsley, Askern, Thorne, Doncaster, Goole, 
Mexbro’, Rotherham, and Sheffield, are ane unexplored in a bryo- 
ogical sense, © or at any rate if partially € xplored, the results are 
Secu wee = any form 
t Riding may be divided into eight riversheds, viz., the 
Lune, “Ribble, Upper Aire, Lower Aire, Wharfe, Nidd, ‘Colne and 
