180 THE JOURNAL OF BOTANY 
THE SPHAGNA OF UPPER TEESDALE. 
By E. CG. Horretz, F.L.S. 
In August 1901, Mr. D. A. Jones, F.L.S. of Harlech and I 
visited Upper Teesdale for the purpose of studying the bog-mosses 
of the district. The flowering plants and mosses of Teesdale have 
og- 
Pease made during a brief visit two years previously had 
shown they deserved. a studies have done something to fill 
this lacuna. Mr. Jones and I stayed nearly the whole month at 
Widdy Bank Farm, most conveniently situated for studying the 
flora of the elevated moorlands, and owing to the great kindness 
of Mr. Gibson and his daughters were able to press and dry the 
very large number of soaking Sphagnum specimens we collected. 
On Matin: nearly 8000 specimens were gathered from nearly 
1000 ees tufts. 
The Tashan visited and collected in were all within three 
miles of Widdy Bank Farm and it would perhaps be difficult to 
find in any district 1 in Great Britain, within a radius of three miles, 
a larger number of Sphagnum forms. The localities collected in 
were as follow 
b Pay. aa patch of boggy ground just at the upper limit 
of the wood which lines the Tees a He High Force Waterfall 
and shrubs, and were thus suaMdarabty shaded. S. Girgensohnit 
ion commune and hydrophilum were the most uncommon forms 
ound her 
the former was found in an suihionniig fine and robust sub- 
merged form. S. mediwm was common under the heather on the 
gst 
(4). Widdy Bank Fell (v.-c. 66). this large mountain, as will 
be seen from the list followings almost all the for ith i 
t great abun 
luxuriance. The more shady portions of the fell were the most 
uctive, and notably ais sides of the small streams and the deep 
near the aed just above the Chauldron Sno ut. In the 
Bank Farm great mounds of S. imbricatum and 8. ‘fucum m occur. A 
_gamekeeper told us that he remembered one of these mounds—a very 
large one formed of S. imbricatum o: only—for twenty or more _— 
