306 THE MOSSES OF NORTHUMBERLAND 



Club within my reach for anything bearing on the subject, 

 in which search the President for the year, Mr Wm. B. Boyd, 

 and the Editing Secretary, Rev. J. J. M. L. Aiken, B.D., 

 have very kindly assisted, but the results are meagre. The 

 list in Vol. XVI. of Dr Hardy's communications to the 

 Proceedings of the Club (including his contributions to the 

 Transactions of the Tyneside Naturalists' Field Club) makes 

 no mention of Mosses ; but on p. 448 of Vol. xii., he supplies 

 a short list of the best of the Mosses (a dozen species are 

 named, only one of them, however, a vice-county record) in 

 the vicinity of the Linns, upon the occasion of a meeting 

 held at Glanton in 1889. 



A small collection of Mosses made by Mr Boyd, mostly 

 gathered in the " sixties," has also been kindly lent me by 

 him, and contains a few very interesting species, though only 

 two of them are additions to the already published species 

 for Northumberland, viz., Dicranum spurium and Barhula 

 Hornschuchimia. Some few of these, from counties on the 

 other side of the Border, are especially interesting, and it may 

 perhaps be worth while putting them on record here, one of 

 them especially, viz., Dicranum Bergeri, being extremely rare. 

 It is recorded by Wilson from two localities in Cheshire, and 

 I know of no other localised record for Britain, although the 

 London Cat., . 2nd ed., gives the two provinces 9, 10, and 

 Berkeley's Handbook of British Mosses gives " Cheshire and 

 Lancashire." 



These species are as follows : — 



Roxburabsbire- 



Weisia microstoma, CM. Old Ormiston, 1868. — A. Jerdon. 

 Mnium undulatum, L. cfr. Cherry trees, 1868. — J. B. Boyd. 

 Dicranum Bergeri, Bland. (D. Schraderi, Schwaeg.) Near 



the Northumberland Border. — J. B. Boyd. 

 Climacium dendroides, W. and M. cfr. Yetholm Loch, 1873. 



— Wm. B. Boyd. 

 Hypnum chrysophyllum, Brid. Grass field near Newtown 



St. Boswells, 1868, 



