184 THE JOURNAL OF BOTANY 
an ats ee nerve. — C. atrovirens De Not. — a brevipilus 
B. & 8. — Leucobryum oe Brid. — Grimmia pulvina a Sm. — 
F; trichopiyla Grev.— subsquarrosa Wils. A barren plant which 
R Lenitginoetie Brid. — R. canescens Brid.: ae yitomtrian Daviesié 
B edwigia ciliata Khrh.—Pottia recta Mitt.—P. crinita Wils. 
—Tortula subulata Hedw. — Barbula een Mitt. — Weisia micro- 
stoma O. M.—Trichostomum mutabile Br., c. —Var. littorale Dixon. 
With an Seat sop form, — 7’. jaws virens ie — Zygodon viridis- 
simus R. Br. — Funaria ericetorum Dixon. — F’, Templetoni Sm. — 
eae palate chwer. — Webera annotina Schwgr. A re- 
markable form or variety with very short and small capsules, 
turbinate and wide-mouthed when mature and empty, resembling 
those of W. gracilis, but with the leaves and habit of fa nag 
—Bryum pendulum Schp.—B. intermedium =~ — B, alpi uds. 
—Eurhynchium macesenie? Schp. — E. pumilum ie i Die 
thecium Borr ” r.—Hypuum chrysophyllum Brid.—H. Wilsont 
Schp. Not the typical plant abit at of H. lycopodioides, 
but nerve too wide and strong. Auricles very indistinct, almos 
obsolete. —H. revolve . commutatu nolluscum 
edw. — H. cupressiforme var. ericetorum B. & 8. — Var. elatum 
Schp. — H. giganteum Schp. — ree splendens B. & 5. — 
H., triquetrum B. & S.— 
A A VAR. STRIOTA, ak —On looking through a 
large collection wee mosses made in various parts of the British 
Isles by Dr. P. B. Mason, of Burton-on-Trent, in the course of 
diffe appeara when dry, and they are, moreover, 
entirely Seotitule mi the phaxialorieiin gemme. I have submitted 
specimens to Mr. H. N. Dixon and to Mr. J. E. Bagnall, neither of 
whom were acquainted with the form, and the latter has suggested 
that I should publish it as a variety, under oa name of var. stricta. 
Unota payiuantaa Brid. var. a n. var.—Stems elongate, 
rather more bra nehisd than in the type; one straight, erect, 
scarcely altered in direction and only slightly sg en when dry, 
with the nerve ceasing below the apex, without 
abitat. Rocks by the sea, on the Island = Strom in the 
Pentland Frith (Dr. P. B. Mason).—W. E. Nicu 
BasipiomyceTES NEW To Bartrain. — The f siti: species are 
sipibeaaeleed by drawings or dried ee, or both, in the British 
Museu ollection :—Sterewm conchatum Fr. ; Namatelia shed mis 
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Fr.; Lyco ai rdon hiemale Bull.; L. furfuraceum Scheff. ; 
gaster lycoperdineus Vitt.—W. G. Suita 
Ranunouvus pap eee Knaf. 4 has been pointed out to us 
by more than one foreign botanist that Ranunculus intermedius Knaf 
is a form of R. patie, ge not the plant of the South and West of 
