102 THE JOURNAL OF BOTANY 
MARRAT’S COLLECTION OF BRITISH MOSSES. 
By J. A. Wuetpon, F.L.S. 
possession, which was made by the late F. P. Marrat. It was 
obtained at the sale of his effects after his death, and probably 
represents a portion only of a general collection of plants. To 
ancashire botanists the collection is an extremely interesting 
one, as it throws light on several doubtful and obscure records 
which have troubled local bryologists. 
Specimens are mostly small, and glued down, but Dr. 
localities are sometimes not ve precisely defined. The older 
therefore, although in every case these i s collection are in 
at but microscopic handwriting, one cannot be 
that the specimens were all collected by him ro e evidence 
asons. 
phagnum molluscum Bruch. Stansfield Moor. Rainford 
Moss, May, 1849. This latter appears to be a new county record 
59).—S. Girgensohnii Russ. A specimen from the Sidlaw 
Hills, Forfar, is labelled “S. fimbriatum.” Probably collected in 
1848, which is the date given for other specimens from this 
district.—S. acutifolium R. & W. This was, hitherto, unrecorded 
for South Lancashire. Marrat’s specimen was collected on Rain- 
ford Moss, but it has not been observed there in recent years.— 
S. subnitens R. & W. Sidlaw Hills. New to v.-c. 90. 
Andreea petrophila Ehrh. var. gracilis B. & §. I refer to this 
a slender reddish plant, labelled by Marrat “A. alpina Hed., a 
curiosity found on Ben-na-Boord, Forfar, July, 1844.” It is new 
to v.-c. 90. 
Oligotrichum hercynicum Lam. Fruiting examples from 
‘‘Rooley Moor, near Manchester.” 
Pleuridiwm subulatum Rabenh. Bebington, Cheshire. 
