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LEICESTERSHIRE MOSSES. 
By A. Bruce Jackson. 
‘ y years’ investigation of Leicestershire bryology has 
reauleed in the addition of over fifty species and varieties to the 
an of mosses printed in the Leicestershire Flora, which was issued 
The following notes represent the field-work done during 
riod named; Rev. H. P. Reader, Mr. A. R. Horwood, Mr. F. 
Mott, and the writer, being the principal observers. The MS. list 
of mosses compiled by Rev. W. H. Coleman, which was only 
sparingly quoted in the Flora, has been largely drawn upon for 
localities in the Charnwood Forest, Ashby-de-la- Zouch, and Twy- 
cross dstits, where Mr. Colem n and his co-worker, Rev. Andrew 
Bloxam, made num he obssrvations. Doubtful records are ignored. 
I have to thank Messrs. H. N. Dixon, J. E. Bagnall, and W. E. 
Nicholson for ssalitinis in determining critical plants. An asterisk 
prefixed to a name denotes a new coun 
Sphagnum cymbifolium Ehrh. Charnwood Forest; Loughborough 
Outwoods ; Buddon Wood; Old John; wood near Staunto n Harold ; 
Swithland Wood ; Loughborough Outwoods ; ; Smoile Wood ; Cole- 
orton; Nailston e Wiggs. —*Var. rubellum Russ. Obarnitoud Forest. 
—8. cuspidatum Ehrh. Charnwood Forest. 
Tetraphis pellucida Hedw. Gracedieu ; nore near Ashby-de-la- 
Zouch ; Nailstone Wiggs ; rocks, Bardon Hi 
Polytrichum aloides Hedw. Swithland Wood; sowigaly Heath ; 
Brazil Wood; Staunton Harold; Heather; Twycros —P., piliferum 
Schreb. Markfield ; Swithland; Mountsorrel : Thihiadtor' Moira; 
Twycross.—P. juniperinum Willd. Beacon Hill: Swithland Wo od; 
Lount Wood; sie! near ens Hill; Moira; Burbage Common. 
— P. formosum Hedw. n Thurnby and Houghton; hill 
save ivesby Station ; Buddon Wood ; pec ga Wood ; Seale 
W ; Nailstone Wiggs ; ; Burbage Woo commune Li. 
Houghton-on-the-Hill ; Pilea iol: Forest ; " Sniails Wood; near 
Twycross. 
*Pleuridium radiate Ldb. Outwoods, Loughborough; Oakley 
Wood; near Twycross; Congerstone, Blozam; Burb ood ; 
Theddingwort rth.— ?. subulatum Rab. Blaby ; Pelder Tor ; Charn- 
wood ; Burbage Common ; near Theddingworth. — P. alternifolium 
Rab. Twyoross 5 “ —— Ti ille. 
Castle Donington ; y-de-la eccorgt near ERP a ; Burbage 
Common; Hb 3 on I), Lane, 
1896, Mott, — *Var. elata. Diaieae, peat Pugarion, 1904, 
JOURNAL OF Borans.—Vor, 6. — , 1905] Fk : 
