76 Cocks: Larder’s Lincolnshire Moss-List. 
seems to be the moral the relation of events, etc., in the Journal 
emphasizes. In reading through the bulky volume one wonders 
how Banks managed to grasp so shrewdly as he did at the 
broad truth of the facts, in the hurry of the occasion, and face _ 
to face with so much that was unfamiliar and with no key 
to it in anything he had seen at home. There was, too, 
a lighter vein—a brighter strain, as of young blood, in his 
Banks clearly (on his own telling) was far from indifferent to ‘s 
those commoner terrestrial transits of Venus which have had, 
and perhaps ever will have, attractions for the weightier as for 
the lightest intellects! But it is all as decorously put as it 
was doubtless innocently indulged in. For precise particulars 
readers must go to the book which from cover to cover (not 
excepting Hooker’s Memoirs of Banks and Solander) is brim- 
ful of dainties not caviare to the general.—F.A.L. 
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NOTE—MOSSES. 
La rder’ s Lincolnshire Moss-List.—Bry Steers will welcome Mr. 
Larder’s list of Lincolnshire mosses which appears in ‘The Naturalist’ of 
this month. It isa pity, et ees the list was sick compared with the 
London Catalogue (on which it seems to be based) eae ue aia as by 
this means several curious errors wou puld have been avoide 
Five plants are recorded twice over ander different. mh nony ns; Aes 
Pottia pusilla = P. cavifolia 
Bryum nutans = Webera ni 
Mnium fontion = 
he achytheciu m puri = Hypnum puru 
— um ie elegans = P. ste Sahat (the true P. elegans of Hooker 
t Bri tishy. 
A very puraling record is that of re ae?  Aaplaagrapeiet Ey Seon acne = 
able search I have ole Ore in tracing t very ancient name 
Seligeria setacea (Wulf.) Lindb. = S. eaters “BRS. ee British Moss 
Flora, vol i., p. 121). IK ‘the second edition of ‘Musc i ritannica,” 
for 
PE ee ee 
wever eried asa sy We ‘ 
the plant referred to is probably this latter, seeing that the species already ~~ 
sin oe list. It would be interesting to have this evidently ancient 
rd veri The appropriateness of the specific name paludosum is 
scarcely appar 
e Naturalist’ of August 1896 ss tag a paper on the mosses of 
South ‘ieseinelilees b y the Rev Eihast Fowler. = notice that three spec cies” 
; ioned in that list are abs ent mind r's, viz.: Philonotis i AO 
uthpnchtans piliferum, and anlbapal Patan puyiaiiin On page 255 of the 
vol. for 1897 Hypnum exannulatum is mentioned as occurring near Gains- 
borough, also on Mr. Fowler's authority. This is not included in the 
baat list. If these omissions are intentional, a note of explanation is 
Ssira 
( There i is heidi girs much more to oe ind by bryologists in Me posts 
ie h should add some r 50 species to those 
decies ere: LLYN JAMESON fe ste Godolphin Ac aa erowate, 
“ast Feb, 1858. fe eon ee ‘ 
“Naturalist, 
