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N.W. of Europe is approached. Thus in Belgium, N. France, and 
iia its habitat is cultivated fields and roadsides ; while in 
inferred from the absence of records, and from its foreign dis- 
tribution, while there seems abundant evidence of its being a 
naturalized introduction 
n a detailed account of the new Surrey see on given to 
—‘‘ The plant has a wide range in Europe, in 
similar situations i. the Reigate one, i.e, in asa periodically 
disturbed, and it is doubtful whether any of its recorded habitats 
are really wild (sensu stricto). It may therefore ra one of those 
species which are native somewhere in the centre of their range, 
and anciently and widely spread from there to places where the 
ground is occasionally broken for them by man. If it is native in 
Britain, it may be discovered in some ‘unsuspected’ situation, but 
at present it should probably be classed as a naturalization 
have not sufficient knowledge of the Continental localities for 
A. hirsuta, nor an exact description of the kind of a am = 
frequents in the East, to comment upon the opinions Mr. Dun 
expressed ; but I trust that botanists who have met with this Sank 
in other countries will furnish us with notes as to habitat, and their 
opinions as to its status 
ADDITIONAL WEST LANCASHIRE MOSSES & HEPATICS. 
By J. A. Wuetpon, F.L.S. ., AND ALBERT Witson, F.L.S. 
In the short interval that has elapsed since the publication of 
our "ey list (Journ. Bot. 1901, 294-299) upwards of fort 
ng gi Nat enumerated are several additional Sphagnum 
records, Which bring the West Lancashire total of these up to thirty 
out of the forty-one species said to occur in Great Britain. As the 
varietal forms also occur in almost similar proportion, — no 
district of similar area is very much richer in these plan 
