534 Miscellanea — Botanical, by James Hardy. 



Scapania ttndtjlata. In rocky streams, and in ditches, Care- 

 burn ; Cheviot ; Oldcambus hill ; Skippath dean, E. L. "Very 

 bitter tasted. 



nemorosa. On peaty soil in the Bizzle ; Fairy Castle 



dean, above Oldhamstocks. 



Jungermannia obtttsifolia. On gravelly, peaty soil, above 

 porphyry, on heathy banks near the Care burn, N. 



— crenulata. In the upper part of Ogle burn, E. L. 



— : Wilsoniana. Damp places on Tweedside, at Eabbit 



banks, Kelso. — A. Brotherston. — In damp hollows over which 

 water trickles, and near waterfalls ; sea-banks, near Eedheugh 

 and Oldcambus. — J. H. 



barbata : Yar. Schreberi. On a dike by a roadside 



nearYetholm, May 11, 1878. — A. Brotherston. — The common form 

 grows in Oldcambus dean, and on the sea-banks ; also on Dowlaw 

 and Penmanshiel moors, and at Black-Craig, Pease dean. — J. IT. 



connivens. Mixed with Sphagnum on Penmanshiel 



moors, but examples from the Bizzle are in large separate pale 

 masses. 



Sphagnoecetis communis. Among Sphagnum ohtusifolium, on 

 the top of the Bizzle, May, 1867. 



Mastigobryum trilobatum. In the wood between Golds- 

 cleugh and Dinsdale, Cheviot. 



Lepidozia setacea. Beneath long heather at the borders of 

 peat-pits in Penmanshiel and Dowlaw mosses ; also on Cheviot. 



■ — reptans. Over-running Hypnum, upper part of 



Cockburnspath Tower dean ; a dwarf pretty olive-brown coloured 

 variety in the Bizzle. 



Ptilidium ciliare. Bizzle, and the top of Cheviot. — J. H. — 

 Drakemire moor, and on trunks of trees, Bunkle wood. — John 

 Anderson. 



Madotheca rivularis. On very dry, but very much shaded, 

 igneous rocks, Newtondon, Berwickshire, March, 1879; also on 

 a tree there. I gathered the same species at Wooden Linn in 

 1875, but could not find it lately. — A. Brotherston. 



Lejeunia serpyllifolia. Moist rocks, Pease Bridge ; Eocks 

 below Cockburnspath Tower ; Lemanton dean. 



Pellia calycina, JVees. Var. furcigera, Hook. In dripping 

 places in the Eabbit banks plantation, Kelso. — A. Brotherston. 

 — In similar places near the Waterfall on the sea-banks near 

 Eedheugh. — J. H. 



