484 THE JOURNAL OF BOTANY 
claimed that this grass had a right to be considered as a native of 
the Channel Islands. This year I have obtained a striking con- 
firmation of this view in the discovery of the herbarium of Joshua 
Gosselin, whose list of Guernsey plants, compiled in 1790, was 
published in Berry’s History of the Channel Islands, 1805. This 
herbarium is now in the possession of Mr. Edgar Dupuy, The Arcade, 
Guernsey. On a sheet labelled ‘‘ Phalaris canariensis,” I found three © 
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until last year it was confused with P. canariensis, which is really 
far less common pee P. minor. The right of the latter to be 
treated as a native can hardly now be doubted. 
Equisetum maximum Lam. Hedge in a wet field-corner, Alder- 
ney. The only previous record in the Channel Islands is Prof. 
Lagasca’s for Jersey, whic s never been confirme 
Iam indebted to Mr. erage Bennett for examining and con- 
firming some of these plants. 
MOSSES OF NORTH-EAST YORKSHIRE (V.-C. 62). 
By Wm. Inenam, B.A. 
Tue Mosses in this list I gathered during the years 1897-1900. 
e most interesting habitats I have found to be the siliceous bogs 
of Biracaels Common, Terrington Carr jpoee now rapidly dis- 
appearing as bog-land), and Coatham Marshes. The limestone 
districts of ate Howard and Kilburn (the Hambleton ie are 
also interest I am much indebted to Mr, H. N. Dixon for 
aa verifying. all doubtful mosses in the list, and ‘to Dr. Bra ith- 
Sl Malton, and Mr. Bagnall for their kind 
additional help with a few of the more critical mosses. 
Sphagnum cymbifolium Ehrh. Strensall a Leckby Carr. 
—Var. squarrosulum N. & H. Strensall Com n—-Var. congestum 
Schimp. Strensall Common. ca magica “hindb. Strensall 
sall Common. — S. medium Limpr. Leckby Carr, Sept. 1898.— 
S. rigidum var. ae so Strensall Common.—S. tenellum 
mae Strensall Common.—S. subsecundum me. Strensall Com- 
ar. contortum + Sehimp Strensall Common. — Var. viride 
Boal, Birenesll Com quarrosum Pers, Arncliffe Wood 
Baie, 6 oooe Strensall Common.—S. acutifolium 
rene mg Common, or.—Var. a? — Brait Stren- 
1 Co n.—Var. patulum Schimp. Stren mmon.—Var 
pyre ts Bchinnp. Leckby Carr. — S. fimiriaton Wils. Strensall 
mmon, Terrington Carr, Askham Bog. — S. intermedium Hoffm. 
Str ommon, Leck arr.—S cuspi tum trensall 
y 
Common. — Var. submersum Schimp. Top of Hambleton Hills, 
Kilburn, June, 1899; with habit of var. Torreyanum Braithw., teste 
Warnstorf and Ho rrell. 
