204 THE JOURNAL OF BOTANY 
was surprised to find a good quantity “ Bryum calophyllum, and 
some of its usual associates, near Wallas hink th ust be 
a d f 
them on many occasions before, and it seems hardly possible they 
would have remained overlooked in a locality that has been fre- 
sandhills are too dry for the subaquatic Brya of this group. I 
therefore hazard the conjecture that railway-works have resulted 
in the formation of the hollow in which the plants grow, within 
very recent times. In this depression the sand is generally damp, 
and sometimes even covered with a slight —_ of water, for weeks 
together. The light spores of the B a may have been blown 
across the Mersey during high gales, and, alighting on this congenial 
spot, have duly germinated. Many spores doubtless lie buried in 
the drier shifting id ready to grow, should their soe remain 
unimpaired, when the conditions become more favoura nyone 
who has encountered a sandstorm on this coast during high winds, 
when the flying sand cuts the face and is carried far inland, can 
imagine the possibility, or even probability, of the much lighter 
r the sake of completeness, a few very old and probably well- 
saat records are eaebuied which were overlooked in preparing 
the list of 1898. 
Sphagnum fimbriatum Wils. Castle Mill; Carrington Moss ; 
Mottram; Brookhouse Bog; Abbotts Moss, Holt. —*Var. tenue 
unb 
b 
am Bog, D. A. Jones. — Var. viride Russ. Wybunbury Bog, 
A, Jones.—’ ee psdiatoissim Pers. var. subsquarrosum Russ. Flax- 
e. ectabile Russ. Wybunbury Bog, D. 4. Jones.— 
*Var. imbr Latin Schimp. Flaxpool, Holt.—S. teres Angstr. “var. 
squarrosulum Warnst. Knutsford Moor, Le (Pisce —*Var. imbri- 
catum i dae Wybunbury Bog, D. A. Jones. —S. cuspidatum 
. & W. *var. majus Warnst. Oakmere and Abbotts Moss, Holt. 
—Var. plore N.& H. Flaxpool and Hatchmere, Holt.—*Var 
se Sch Oakmere; Heswall Heath. —*F. serrulata 
Schlieph. (= s. . initense C. Miill.). Very fine and characteristic 
on Fes Heath in a pool near Mere Lane.—*Var. falcatum Russ. 
Oakmere and Flaxpool, Holt.— 8S. a ope um oe Oakmere, 
im 
Holt; Wybunbury Bog, D. A. Jones.—S. rum R. & “var. 
amblyphylium W. Delamere Forest and Tatton Park, Knutsford.— 
*Var. mucronatum u Bog, W. Wilson ; Oakmere, 
Wiison & Hunt. This latter is No. 49 in Braithw ahs at. 
Exsice., labelled S. intermedium var. riparium. Mr. rell informs 
me that it is need a rather robust form of S. recurvum var. mucro- 
natum. Mr. Holt sent me a still bsscticunied form from Abbotts 
Moss frome 8. hee medium var. riparioides Warnst. Mr. Horrell 
examined this, and supplied the sloning reference and 
testietaiien; which may be of interest to students of the genus, as 
