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N. ab E., and on my next visit to Dent to get more of the Lejeunea 

 Jiamatifolia (alas ! it is rather scarce), I planted a fine healthy 

 specimen of the Dumortiera, which I trust will thriye and multiply. 

 This is now about a year ago. 



I am not aware that (Edipodiiim Griffi.tldanum, Schw., has been found 

 in Yorkshire, but two or three years ago I found the plant on the 

 western slope of Barbon Fell, about two miles from the Yorkshire 

 boundary. 



In a recent number of the Naturalist Mr. Boswell mentioned my 

 name in connection with Hypnum im.povmis, pointing out that the late 

 Mr. Wilson was most probably the first to identify the moss as a 

 native of Yorkshire. The specimen I received from him was 

 collected on Strensall Common on 8th September, 1869. On the 

 13th of the same month he wrote to me as follows : — " I made last 

 Tuesday what seemed to me a desperate attempt at another expedition 

 to Strensall Common. The occasion for selecting that place was 

 this, viz., that I had some j^ears ago picked up and kept, without 

 knowing its value, a small patch of Hypnum imponens^ and as its 

 detection elsewhere is confined to a heath in Sussex, where Mr. 

 Mitten gathered it about the same time, I was naturally desirous to 



gather more before the Common had become arable land The 



moss being also in better state than the Sussex specimens, though 

 without fruit." 



Paludella squarrom. — As there is only a doubtful habitat given for 

 this moss in Hobkirk's list, I think we may come to the conclusion 

 that this beautiful moss has become extinct in these islands. On a 

 packet containing a specimen of this moss from Mr. W. Wilson, a 

 few years ago, he wrote " long extinct — always scarce." This remark 

 applied to Knutsford Moor. As Mr. M. B. Slater and myself were 

 most probably the last persons who gathered this plant in England, 

 a remark on the subject may not be out of place. In the year 1868 

 and on the 7th of June, Mr. Slater of Malton accompanied me to 

 Terrington Car, where he had gathered" the plant in plenty in 1855. 

 We found the place drained, and producing luxuriant grass, amongst 

 which in one place were a few straggling stems of Paludella squarrosa, 

 jand near to it was Hypmm nitens in greater quantity. I have since 

 visited the place, and could find neither the Paludella nor the Hypnum. 



Amblydegium confervoides^ so far as I know, has not been published 

 as found in Yorkshire. In August of 1871 I found it in the neigh- 

 bourhood of Hawnby (Bilsdale) growing on embedded stones amongst 

 hazel bushes, &c.j below a scar the name of which I cannot give, but 



