354 NOTES ON THE FLORA OF BRECONSHIRE. 



Although strikingly different in habit from S. aquiloba (Schwaeg.), 

 I am not prepared to say, with the founder of the species, that it 

 has nothing in common with it ; the perianth has usually a wider 

 mouth, but the margin is exactly the same ; and although the 

 antical lobe is proportionately smaller and more rotundate at the 

 apex, yet in S. cequiloba the lobes are not nearly so equal as the 

 name would imply, the most marked characters of distinction are 

 found in the antical lobes, which in 8. aspera are more or less 

 rotundate at the apex, which character becomes more noticeable in 

 the bracts, whereas in S. cequiloba they are more oblong and sub- 

 quadrate, and the apex is more acute and becomes more accen- 

 tuated in the antical lobe of the bract ; the postical lobes are also 

 more oblong and acuminate ; the postical lobes of both the leaves 

 and bracts are strongly recurved. 



S. cequiloba is a smaller plant with a neater habit, generally of a 

 darker olive-green colour, leaves regularly inserted and almost 

 equal in size along the whole stem, margin not so ciliate, teeth 

 smaller and fewer, sometimes subentire, texture more opaque. 



In the abundant material lately collected at Abergele, I thought 

 I might find specimens showing a transition from S. aspera to S. 

 cequiloba, but. even in small plants I always find the same char- 

 acters which enable it to be distinguished. 



It will probably be found in herbaria, either under the name of 

 S. cequiloba or S. nemorosa. Dr. Gottsche named it, in G. & R. 

 Hep. Eur. n. 602, Scapania cequiloba forma dentata (1874) ; and Lim- 

 pricht, in Cohn Krypt. Fl. Schles. (1876), expressed an opinion that 

 it was probably a distinct species, nearly allied to S. resupinata (L.) 

 (S. gracilis Lindb.), but from which it is at once distinguished by its 

 verruculose leaves. 



Description of Plate 329. — Fig. 1. Plants nat. size. 2. Portion of young 

 branch x 16 (Yewbarrow, G. Stabler). 3. Leaf x 11 (G. &R. n. 602). 4. Ditto, 

 explanate (ditto). 5, 6. Leaves x 11 (Sweden, Kindberg). 7. Leaf x 11 

 (G. & R. n. 602). 8. Margin of leaf, postical lobe x 85 (ditto). 9. Portion of 

 leaf x 290 (ditto). 10. Bract x 11 (Yewbarrow, G. Stabler). 11. Ditto, 

 explanate (ditto). 12. Perianth X 11 (Sweden, Kindberg). 13. Portion of 

 mouth of perianth x 85 (Yewbarrow, G. Stabler). 



NOTES ON THE FLOEA OF BKECONSHIRE. 



By Reginald W. Phillips, M.A., B.Sc. 



On comparing my notes of a visit to Talgarth during the first 

 week of August of this year, with the very useful list of plants 

 drawn up by Mr. W. Bowles Barrett in his ■ Contribution towards 

 a Flora of Breconshire ' (Journ. Bot. 1885), I find I am able to add 

 some new plants to this list, as well as furnish new stations for 

 several other plants inadequately reported upon. I ought to add 

 that my observations were confined to a circuit of three or four 

 miles round Talgarth, which lies on the old red sandstone, and in 



