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but I have not heard of its recent discovery, either there 

 or elsewhere. It is one of the rarest British mosses. 



6. P has cum patens. On dried mud, almost every season, 

 intermixed with Physcomitrium sphcericum and usually much 

 more plentiful than that species. This moss comes up in 

 autumn in the Ashle district of Bowdon, although very 

 sparingly, wherever an open drain has been cut in spring. 

 It also springs up about Bollington, under the same cir- 

 cumstances. 



7. Phascum cuspidatum. I have not yet found this at 

 Mere ; but it comes up on banks on the Chester road, be- 

 tween Bowdon and Bucklow Hill, when they have been 

 newly made up, or plastered with mud from the road. 



8. Leskia polycarpa fruits freely about the roots of 

 trees on the borders of Mere, both in autumn and spring. 



9. Hypnum riparium. A very neat variety of this moss 

 fruits in abundance in August and April on clay banks 

 and at the roots of trees at Mere. 



Hepatic^. 



Riccia fluitans and crystallina are both frequent on 

 dried mud at Mere, with Phascum patens &c, and both 

 species fruit freely there. 



Numerous interesting flowering plants are also found, 

 viz. : — 



Elatine hexandra, ~"| 



Limosella aquatica, 



Peplis portula, yAll plentiful on mud. 



Polygonum minus, \ 



Littorella lacustris, j 



Carex vesicaria. Fringing the woods at the edge of the 

 Mere. 



Scirpus acicularis. In vast quantity in sandy places. 



Carex (Ederi. In stony and grassy places. This is the 



