464 Mr. Hardy on the Moss Flora of the Eastern Borders. 



2. B. ck'LCAViF.A, Br. and Sch. Wet places, not common. N. 

 In Hebburn wood. B. Ewehole on shelves of rocks in company 

 with. Hyp. commutatum^ and Weissia verticillata. — J. A. This 

 was first discovered as a British moss, in Teesdale, by Mr Spruce, 

 see "Ann. and Nag. Nat. Hist." xiii., p. 192, 198. Mr. Wilson 

 says that it chiefly occurs in limestone districts. 



3. B. poMiFOEMis, Hediv. Among shady rocks in deans, and 

 in the higher hills ; general. 



4. B. iTHYPHYLLA, Bridel. In similar places with the pro- 

 ceeding, but much less frequent. N. "On Cheviot." — Bot. G. 

 through N. and D. Humbleton dean and Care burn rocks ; Heath- 

 pool Linn ; in the Bizzle and Henhole ; Eoddam dean. B. In the 

 dean between Horsley and Brockholes ; and on walls there. 

 AUanton ; west side of Cockbui*n law. Also in Hoxburghshire. — 

 " Folia semper stricta manent, et viridia." — (Wahlenb. Flor. 

 Upsal.) 



5. B. ARCUATA, Bridel, On wet moors and rocks, somewhat 

 local. B. " Coldingham moor." — Rev. A. Baird. — " Lamberton 

 moor." — Dr Johnston. On Coldingham moor near Crosslaw, and 

 Buskin burn. — Drakemire moor near the Dunse road. — /. A. 

 N. In woods at the foot of Cheviot and Hedgehope." — Winch. 

 Not observed there since. Xear a water fall, among moist rocks 

 on the west side of Care burn. Frequent in the Bizzle ; and also 

 in Henhole, where, on the moist rocks at the upper end, it acquires 

 a very lurid tint. E. More common on the wet Eoxburghshire 

 moors, such as those between Euberslaw and Wells ; north of 

 the Eildons ; also on Kippielaw moors. 



49. Splachnuin, Br. and Sch. 



1. S. AMPULLACEUM, R. In wot bogs, growiug on the dung 

 of cattle. B. In bogs on the moor near Penmanshiel ; and also 

 on the Redheugh portion of Coldingham moor. — " One of the 

 most beautiful and curious of British mosses." — fW, Wilson.) 

 Scopoli (Flor. Carn. II., 308), thus aptly describes the capsule : 

 " Capsula figuram habet ampullae vitrese (Caraffe) ; collo longi- 

 tudine ventris." 



2. S. sPH^RicuM, Hedw. N. " On Cheviot." — Winch, I 

 have only observed it there in the bog at the south-eastern end, 

 but not recently. 



50. Tetraplodon, Br. and Sch. 



1. T.'mnioides, Br. and Sch. B. On the moor near Winden 

 cairn, Penmanshiel, accompanied by Didymodon purpureum, and 

 Bryum nutans, on a mixture of sheep and cow-dung, lying in a 

 hollow from which a large stone had been dug out. I raised a 

 large crop of specimens here for a year or two. — On the remains 

 of a decayed rabbit near Drakemire. — /. A. N. Somewhat fre- 

 quent on the ridge of the hill between Bizzle and Dunsdale, near 

 a large collection of stones ; also in a fissure of rock on Dunsdale 



