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Jaming them as required. Some records are taken from Mr. Hor- 
rell’s book; the writer is responsible for others, and a few have been 
named from the synonymy where the cases seemed to admit of it. 
It cannot be regarded as quite certain that the above system 
will be siiatcls apciiited by all the leading or bryologists— 
at any rate without some modifications. So far as it proceeds upon 
definite characters—e. g. the shape, position, ad size of the chloro- 
phyllose cells, and the form and distribution of the pores in the 
walls of the hyaline cells—it works fairly well. In the latter 
respect, however, it leads to the grouping bopether of numerous 
forms hitherto kept distinct; for example, under S. rufe 
Nerden (Horrell’ s a PB 67) are fo and * 8, ao 
e come to varieties the difficulties are greater. The two 
forms of S. recurvum are distinguished by the shape and size of the 
stem-leaves, but stem-leaves of both kinds can be found not seldom 
on one plant. In S. cymbifolium justice can only be done by literal 
quotation—e. g. (op. cit. pp. 77, 78), “ Var. flavo- paige More 
or less yellowish in the ee : times mixed with some blue- 
green, whitish below.’’ ‘ Var. glauco-pallens. The eapitulum een 
to pale yellowish, at times blue- aan whitish below.” Everyon 
knows how a large tussock of Sphagnum shades off into different 
tinted and opinions will differ as to the value of such distinctions 
(of which there are other examples) in pip aie ae botany. 
Several of the following records pee r. R. enson’s 
list published in this Journal for Sept. 1898. The rent at refer 
to the botanical divisions of the county adopted by the Caradoc and 
Severn Valley Field Club. 
Sphagnum fimbriatum Wils. 18. Limekiln Woods; old pit- 
mounds, Lal ey, Painter. — Var. tenue Gray. 7. Whixall Moss, 
en 
8. Gibillath Wils. vars. purpurascens Warnst. and versicolor Russ. 
4. Shomere Moss, Hamil. "5. Stapeley Hill, Benson & Hamilton. 
7. Whixall Moss, Ley. 8. Wilderley = Benson. 9. Longmynd, 
Benson ; eley Hill, Benson & Hamilton. 
"8. nee B. & W. var. versicolor Warnst. 4. Bomer Pool 
and Shomere Pool, Hamilton. 5. Stapeley Hill, Biko Hamilton. 
t Miss —Var. flavescens Warnst. 
7. Whixall Moss, Benson, Armitage (Miss). a Pawn, 
. Se Clee Hill, Weyman. “8S. acuti- 
rh ,? EF. Westcott, 1848. 11. Wrekin, 
t. and virescens Warnst. 11. 
Lawley, Painter. 12. Kinlet and Wyre Forest, Duncan. — Var. 
virescens Warnst. 18. Cox Wood, Hamilton. 
Journat or Botany. Vou. 40. [Dxc. 1902.] 28 
