THE MOSSES OF GUERNSEY. 77 
visit to the island i in 1885; and in Braithwaite’s Moss- Flora, vol. ii. 
for this island. The list of species given in Ansted’s “ores 
Islands is utterly worthless, and the deductions drawn i 
the author of the book (who was not the Seiaipilen of of the list) are 
perfectly absur 
Seeing that the highest elevation of land hardly exceeds 400 ft. 
above sea-level, the occurrence in the island of such mosses as Bryum 
alpinum, Grimmia cpr ne vay some other sub-alpine species, 
is rather remarka Am those most noteworthy by their 
sides of a small waterfall on the aout beilet; fruiting abundantly in 
October ; and Trichostomum (Mollia) lutescens, of which this is the 
second known n locality in the kingdom, the other station being 
Killarney. These, as well as many others of my doubtful ga therings, 
have been identified by my friend Mr. Henry Boswell, M.A., to 
whom I am much indebted for kindly assistance in my moss-work 
during many years past. It is unnecessary to encumber these 
pages with the local names of habitats and other points of use only 
to a worker on the spot; it will suffice to give a general idea of the 
pee ach distribution of each species in the island, a aaa 
more precise information will find it in a paper which will 
era in the —— oming Transactions of the Guernsey ‘Bociety of 
Natural Science 
ce e in 7 future paper to give a list of the Hepatice of 
nsey; meanwhile it may be well to place on record the 
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colea sat which Mr. Boswell and I found during one of our 
rambles last August; it occurs plentifully at a original station, 
and since then I have gathered it in two or three widely-separated 
localities, so that it seems to be a fairly distributed plant in 
Guernsey. Lophocolea spicata was first discovered in England some 
five or six years ago by my old friend the late Mr. Wot Cain 
found it on the extreme western coast of Cornwall, at St. J ust, near 
the Land’s End, and I am not aware that it has been seen 
elsewhere ; so that its occurrence in Guernsey, i in a direct line from 
the south of Ireland, through West Cornwall, is of cried interest. 
Sphagnum acutifolium Ehr. Very D.majus Turn. Rar 
rare. emeyoese Bf coiilies B. & §S. 
ik rs sve microstomum Hedw. Very rare. 
Rather os Me Ge Brid. Common on 
Weissia soliihietsd Hedw. ‘to the cl 
W. mucronata Bruch. Rax C. hades Brid. Rare. 
Dicranella  heteromalla Hedw. C. subulatus Sch. Very rare. 
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D. scoparium L. Common. — yriform Rar 
ths or’ rephgiliol On the Lexy pou it “Local 
southern cliffs, and r 
