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MOSSES OF SOUTH LINCOLNSHIRE. 



Rev. WILLIAM FOWLER, M.A., 



/ tear of LkcrsedgC) Yorkshire ; President of the Botanical Section of the 



Lincolnshire Naturalists' Union. 



In the Botanical Locality Record Club Report for 1878, a list of 

 North Lincolnshire mosses is given, and in the Report for 1879 

 and 1880 four more species are added to the preceding list for 

 Vice-County 54, making in all 135. The present list for South 

 Lincolnshire, Vice-County 53, contains only 67 species, or about 

 half the number for North. There were, however, three or four 

 observers who collected records for the North Lincolnshire list, 

 while the following list is the result of a visit paid by the writer in 

 1S80. It must be remembered, too, that there are even fewer 

 hunting-grounds lor mosses in South Lincolnshire than in North, 

 the bogs and fens of olden times being transformed into 'smiling 

 cornfields/ and the moorlands into pastures for cows and sheep. 

 Still, more than 67 species (most of them common everywhere) arc 

 doubtless to be found by any willing to look for them, and the 

 writer will be glad to receive specimens of any so found, for 

 the formation of a supplementary list, to be published at some 

 future time. With regard to elevation, the highest point in the 

 county is near Caistor (in the Northern Division), 549 feet, but 

 the whole of the Southern Division is of considerably less elevation, 

 and the greater part of it is nearly on a dead level, so that man} 

 species which are found on the Yorkshire hills cannot be expected 

 to occur. The names in the present list are in the order of 'The 

 London Catalogue of British Mosses and Hepatics,' 1SS1. The 

 numbers and letters prefixed to the localities are those of the Natural 

 History Divisions of the County (see Map in Nat, Oct. 1895). 



Sphagnum acutifolium Ehrh. 13 E. Nocton. 

 Sphagnum subsecundum Nees. 13 IV, South Moor. 

 Sphagnum papillosum Lindb. 13 E. Nocton. 

 Dicranella heteromalla Hedw. 13 E. Nocton. 16 N. Bourn. 

 Dicranum scoparium I.. 13 E. Nocton. 13 IV. South Moor. 

 Dicranum majus Turn. 16 N. Bourn Wood. 

 Campylopus pyriformis Brid. 13 IV, South Moor. 

 Leucobryum glaucum Hamp. 13 K. Nocton. 



Phascum cuspidatum Schreb. 13 W. Beckinghap. 

 Trichostomum tophaceum Brid. 15 S. Morkery Wood. 



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