16 THE MOSSES OF SOUTH LANCASHIRE. 
' certainly a marked variety, but in such a protean moss as 
A, filicinum one hesitates to create varieties; but it seems more 
deserving, ue er, than many varieties, and the name you suggest 
is appropriat The more distant, erect patent leaves; the 
slender, cightly branched, less tomentose stems; and the peculiar 
dull ochraceous green colour, — impart a ‘characteristic and 
ie tie facies to the plant which is remarkably a in 
specimens I have from widely separated localities. It grow 
wet sre ground, where liable to inundation, in South Caneahiaal 
at Southport, Birkdale, and Ainsdale, and in West Lancashire pi 
tween Lytham and St. Annes. Mr. Dixon has kindly sent m 
specimens pashered by himself on Gullane Links, Hddingloa! 
.B., July, 1897; and Mons. Renauld sends it from Boussens, 
Haute-Garonne, May, 1 83. 
pnum riparium Li. Bruch, near Warrington, Wilson. — H. 
polygamum Schpr. (Rochdale, H.).— Var. stagnatum Wils. Burs- 
cough Junction !!— H. stellatum Schreb. Mitton!! Worston !!— 
*Var. protensum B.& 8. Chatburn and Pendle Hill !! — H. elodes 
Spr. Hightown and Burscough Junction !!—H. chrysophyllum 
Brid. Orford, Wilson. Old Trafford, Hunt. Clitheroe !! — H. 
aduncum Hedw. (typicum). Southport !! Netherton !!—*Var. tenue 
Schpr. Southport, H.!!—*Var. paternum Sanio. Southport!!, H. 
Walton !! Birkdale, and Ainsdale. — *Var. ret Schpr. 
Southport !!, H. Ince Blundell !! Barseon gh Junction !! —*H. 
moat 5 Schpr. Southport!!, Wilson (Braithwaite), “te it still 
unds ; also at Burscough, Ainsdale, Birkdale, and Netherton !! 
ae. Wilsoni *var. hamatum Lab. Southport !! Ainsdale !! — 
fluitans L. Woolston Moss, Wilson. Rooley and Kersal Moors, 
Percival.— *Vavr. iaiun age Pendle Hill !!— H. exannulatum 
Gumb. Pendle Hill.—Var. Hote De Not. Southport, in plenty !! 
—*Forma falcifolium Ren. Southport !!—*Var. purpurascens Schpr. 
Blackston Edge, H.!!— H. intermediwn Lind. Southport and 
Whiteley Dean, H.!!— *Var. falcatum Sanio. Southport, H. !!— 
cupressiforme var. resupinatum Schr. Clitheroe!! Worston !!— 
(A. erista-castrensis L. This, Mr. Holt tells me, is generally 
regarded as an error by local botanists, and it should be excluded. 
—H. Patientia Lab. Newton and Warrington, Wilson. Hale, 
Marrat.—H. palustre = Sea: and Rochdale, H.).— *Var. sub- 
sphericarpon B. & S. n Pendle Hill!! Chatburn !!—H. ochra-_ 
ceum Turn. Whiteley I pes H.—H. cordifolium Hedw. With fruit 
at Netherton and Rainford!! 
ylocomium triquetrum B.& S. Fruiting in Botany Bay Wood, 
near Whalley, Hunt. Common in Ribble district!! as are also 
H, splendens B.& S.!! and H. squarrosum B. &$.!! The latter in 
fruit, Chat Moss, ne and Clitheroe !! — *H. brevirostre B. & S. 
Clitheroe and Worston !! 
ST LOTT 
