46 ON TWO ADDITIONS TO THE BRITISH MOSS-LIST. 



Ule.v nanus, Forster. Plentiful in Harleston Firs, and in Badby 



Wood, Nene a. 



Genista tinctoria, L. Near King Sutton [French and Beesley), 

 Cherwell; dry banks, Astwell (Miss Scott), Ouse ; Collyweston, 

 Deene, &c, Welland ; Weldon (Lewin), Burnack (Jones), Nene c. 

 Like Geranium lucidum, jumping over the central portion of 

 the county, and occurring only on the eastern and western 



extremities. 



Anthyllis Vulneraria, L. A rare plant in the county, and almost 



confined to the lower portion of the Nene Valley, where, by the 



old Eoman road, near Fotheringhay, on the quarries of Wansford 



and on Wittering Heath, it is abundant; very sparingly on Koade 



spoil-banks, Ouse. 



Medicago denticulata, Willd. Bank of Nene, Northampton, in 



abundance ; possibly introduced by skin-washing. Spoil-banks, 



Kingsthorpe (Sir John Robinson). 



M. maculata, Sibth. Cultivated fields, Upton ; banks of Nene 

 with last species. 



Trifolium medium, L. East Haddon, Horton, Nene a ; Weldon, 

 Nene c ; Fineshade (Lewin), Welland ; a rare and very local plant. 



T, arvense, L. Kingsthorpe, rare, Harleston quarries, Nene a. 



T. scabrum, L. Hedge-bank, Franklin's Knot (French), Cherwell. 



T. minus, Kelhan. Generally distributed. 



Astragalus hypoglottis, L. Splendid specimens on Southorpe 

 quarries, by side of Bedford Purlieus, &c. ; Nene c. 



A* glycyphylUm, L. Generally distributed in Ouse, 

 and Tove districts. 



Hippocrepis comosa, L. With about the same range as As 

 gains hypoglottis ; it also occurs on the quarries of Collyweston. 

 Vicia angustifolia, Both. Nene and Welland districts. 

 V. Bobartii, Forst. At Upton, Nene a. 



(To be continued). 



Welland 



ON TWO ADDITIONS TO THE BEITISH MOSS-LIST. 



By H. Boswell. 



Bryum Orinanum, Bosw.*— A moss found in Teesdale by Mr. 

 Wesley was so named and described in the ' Naturalist ' (Hudders- 



[* The following diagnosis of tiiis moss is from the ' Naturalist/ vol. v., p. 33 

 (Oct., 1879):— ' l 



"Bryum Origanum, Boswell. Stems elongated about an inch or more, 

 copiously radiculose and forming dense soft tufts. Leaves ovate and ovate- 

 lanceolate shortly pointed, scarcely acuminate, concave, nerved almost to the 

 ffpex; cells L*ptodermous oblong, and nearly rectangular: margins plane, 

 slightly recurved when dry, formed of a single row of narrower cells. Shady 

 old wall Teesdale June, 1871). J. S. Wesley. -In dens, oft tufts ; foliage full 

 green ; the young leaves at the summit rosy pink, the old foliage of form, r years 

 :md lower part deep brown; stems and leaves matted with numerous radicles. 

 Habit and general aspect much as in B. barbatum, Wils., or some forms of 

 B mntum from Norway : from the former it differs in the form of the leaves, 

 which are not pihterous-acuminate, in the nerve ceasing below the apex, in the 

 form of the cells and their very thin walls."] 



