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ADDITIONS TO DR. PARSONS’ MOSS FLORA 
OF THE EAST RIDING. 
. J. MARSHALL, 
Market Weighton; Hon. Secretary of the Vorkshire Bryological C th 
I Have lately been examining some Zortudas which have been 
gathered some time, and find I have three not included in the 
published list. 
Tortula ruralis var. arenicola was gathered at Spurn on 
4th August 1894, by Mr. J. F, Robinson of Hull, who stated 
that it grew profusely on the sandhills in that district. It had 
previously been recorded as a Yorkshire moss by Mr. R. Barnes, 
of Saltburn, who found it at Coatham Marshes on similar ground. 
Tortula hornschuchiana has also been gathered both by 
Mr. Robinson and’ myself. The former first discovered it in 
a chalk pit at Brough, and I gathered “specimens in a similar 
locality here shortly afterwards. 
Tortula montana. Not by any means uncommon in the 
other Yorkshire divisions, it seems singularly absent from the 
East Riding, the only habitat I know of being near Goodmanham, 
on chalk stones projecting a little distance from the surface of 
the ground. I think I shall have another to add, and will send 
a note when determined. 
Physcomitrella patens. This moss was gathered six years 
ago by my errand boy, who brought in a small piece of earth 
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since for it, without success, till Monday morning last. I was 
having a short stroll before breakfast, and stopped by a small 
pool side to fill some tubes for diatoms, when I discovered a fine 
patch of this tiny moss. Dr. Braithwaite only gives six British 
stations for it, one, however, a Yorkshire one, Stockton Forest, 
by the late Dr. Spruce. 
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_NOTE—CONCHOL OGV 
Ab sues le of Limax flavus.—This slug is abundant in the 
ard a La os garden of a house at Alderley Edge, where a few days ago 
seoecit a speci nie poe hird grown, with two tails. In spirit the slug 
measures 25 mm, 1 ta distance of 3 mm. from the extremity 
of the keel, the supplementary tail branches off to the right at an angle 
egs x is not in the same line as the rest of the 
animal, and is not quite as long, it resembles the normal tail, age, koe 
to its hanged and having a_ functional foot-sole. —CuHas, OLDHA 
