362 Notes—Mosses and Flowering Plants. 
NOTE—MOSSES. 
Gymnostomum fragile Ibbotson.—By the kindness of the family - 
my pei friend Mr. Sylvanus Thon se i of adap and Settle, I have becom 
d 
possessed of his fs prone of mo; In this ave found one sheet 
bearing several tufts Aloe itn with a general label to them in Henry 
Ibbotson’s own characteristic writing, though not signed by him, as 
follows :—‘ Gymmnost. ig eh Pits MSS. Bolton Megas 1842.’ This 
suggests an inquiry whether any other specimens of t < cabo species 
were distributed, Ha er Ibbotson described and cnate any other mosses 
as new, whether his description Ss pe names were ever published and where, 
and if his manuscripts are in exis 
Forgetting the man’s i ect: “of which the hurt and disgrace were 
to himself alone, Be ran n’s pete should still be honoured by Yorkshire 
anists. But it must te ubied that if no moss-species have been publishe 
his name, it ‘i okay better so. Dr. Braithwaite has saeitvinls e by 
examini specimens in the present case, an m to be 
adrbull igi Sek alt db. n as such, however, the eo cality is worth 
recording. In . Arnold Lees’ ‘ iva ° — Yorkshire’ this species 
is described (un sit Gym mnostomum) as are, and only one station, 
ou ak is given for headend —WI Pike iWartweil. Balham, London, 
8th November 1 
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NOTES—FLOWERING PLANTS. 
Galeopsis versicolor in mass pe r Stickney.—Some years a 
a peaty field near Stickney, I saw pickadie of this beautiful gone 
Galeopsis versicolor Pipi in full Parse and well remembe pleasure 
sight dging fr ight 
me. 
the individual plants, they were similar to those seen by Mr. Burton on the 
bank of the Trent. It is always more lux scat in po Ante or turnip fields 
than in cornfields, so far as my experience goes, but I nev r before ot or since 
it i e ioned. ed 
y :—‘ Lamium cannabino folio, flore amplo luteo, labio purpureo,’— 
W. Fow_er, Liversedge sla 16th Noveohe | it 
Galeopsis versicolor rig mass.—Apropos of Mr. Burton’s interesting 
sith in a indy eel ‘ Naturalist’ Waites ies aye I ky record that in 
exper e Galeopsis patie Curt. has been what Colias edusa and 
h 
Macrplsse stellatariom are to the lepidopterist, a species of singularly 
irregular oce ce. I remember a field above Valle Crucis Abbey, near 
Llangollen, bate. pointed out to me in 1863 as a locality for it, but it was 
sidered a rare plant, and I did not meet with it anywhere else in a wide 
district of which my then residence, Oswestry, in Salop, was the contre. bed 
in 1865 it sprang up sre vere e in profusion in 
side rubbish heaps, in tens of thousands. The plants ran vaboees mii rc 
feet high—or that might “at their average—an nd the flowers were magnificen 
in size and colouring. uring I the species was still abundails thowgtt 
less so than in 1865. In the following years it returned’ to its origin nal 
scarcity ; indeed, I do not recollect seeing it again while I ry ined in 
er of 1 
Oswestry, which was till the summer But in fn E754 | during a visit, 
I again found it in plenty in the neighbourhood of Trevor Hall, near 
Ruabon, and have no record or memory of then n seeing it sinew 
