JUBULA HUTCHINSIZ&: | 
A RARE HEPATIC, NEW TO YORKSHI 
MATTHEW B. SLATER, F.L.S. 
At the early part of this year, Mr. James Needham, of Hi 
Bridge, sent me two tufts of Hepatics which he had gathered 
Hebden Bridge. On examination the greater portion of o 
proved to be the frondose Hepatic Aneura multifida; 
intimately amongst this I discovered a few scattered plan’ 
fine and rare Hepatic /udu/a Hutchinsie (Hook.) Dum. = J 
Hutchinsie Hook. I reported this to Mr. Needham, desi 
to search for more of this rarity. Recently he has sent me @¢ 
patch of it, and gives me the following description of the 
_ where he first gathered the plant on December 25th, 1896* 
growing on sandstones in a damp wood, in a sheltered § 
a small rill which empties itself into the river Hebden. 42° 
in which it grows has a westerly aspect, and is well sheltered 
the north and east by lofty hills. ie 
This beautiful plant was first discovered in the south of 
at Glengariff, near Bantry, by Miss Hutchins, and was © 
and figured by Hooker in his fine work ‘British Junge 
since been found on the west coast only of our islands. 
Dr. Spruce met with it in some abundance during his ® 
the equatorial regions of South America, and describes two ¥ 
of it in his erudite work, the ‘Hepaticae Amazonice et 
(4884), and remarks on its distribution in a note, page 62+" 
says: ‘In various localities along the western coast of 
Wales, and Scotland ; and in Ireland it grows in some abu 
and fruits freely. Elsewhere in Europe it has not been met wl 
: icine Wwe regard as varieties of the same species exist in the 
_ Parts of North America, and in the regions adjacent to the 
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all round the globe. The question then arises whether the 
Isles may be its original home, or rather some spot in the tor 
I have myself gathered the plant in Ireland, where it 8 
Ooded dell. The Yorkshire glen where Mr. Needham 
with It Is evidently a very similar moist and sheltered 5 
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