The Katur^list. 



we were botanising together at Barmoutli, tlie most important species 

 collected were the rare Eiccia nigrella (the only station in the kingdom 

 for it), and B. tumida, another exceedingly rare species." 'Mr. Peai'son 

 added that he had not been able to examine one-twentieth part of his 

 whole Welsh collection, arr. rh perhaps some beauty lay waiting, 



in good company, to be I- ^ light either in the immediate or 

 distant futnre. Mr. George Stabler, of Levens, sent specimens of 

 Lepidozia tumidula, collected lately by him at Clongha, Lancashire. 

 This rare species has only previonsly been collected in Yorkshire (Idle 

 Woods, Dr. Carrington) and the South of Ireland. He also sent for 

 distribution from the same locaHty Tetmdontium Broummnum. Mr, 

 Axon read a paper On an Epidemic of Tricopliyton tonsurans in France. " 

 A packet containing specimens of the rare Gymnostomum calmreum., 

 gathered in Ghee Dale, Derbyshire, was received from IVIr. Wm. West, of 

 Bradford, and distiibuted, with best thanks to the donor. • On behalf of 

 the hon. secretary Q>,1t. Rogers) and Capt. Cunliffe, who were upon a 

 moss-collecting tour in the ^sTorth, it was reported that at Castleton, 

 Derbyshire, on the 30th of June last, they gathered three very rare 

 mosses, viz., Sdigeria tristiclm, S. pusilla, and Anodv.s Doniamis. The 

 discovery of the first-named in that locality is remarkable. In Schimper's 

 Synopsis," (Ed. 2), under the head of Stationes nov^ muscorum non- 

 nullorum rariorum," there is the following note: — " Seligeria tristicha, 

 in nipibus calcariis pr. Castleton. AiigliT? r^^liitehead). " IMr. White- 

 head, however, in the pages of : r ' :iauned the discovery 

 of this moss at Castleton, T-^ ojuiieO cj .ii i^ier part of Derbysliire, 

 ho ever, pointed to C - a not improbable locaHty, and a careful 

 search by Capt. Cunline dia Rogers was rewarded by its actual 

 discovery there, though in very small quantity. Mr. Cash mentioned the 

 discovery by himself of Orthodontium gmcile at Nant-y-Ffrith, near 

 Wrexham, in the month of June, and exhibited a specimen. The moss 

 had fruited abundantly, but the capsules were old, and on that account 

 only one or two small tufts were gathered. This is beheved to be the 

 first time this rare moss has been reported from the Principality. In the 

 same locahty Tetraphis peUucida was observed fruiting freely : and the 

 rare Gymnostomum comniutatum was gathered. 



Yorkshire Xaturalists' Uxion. — The fourth meeting for 1881 took 

 place at Thome on Saturday, July 9th. Numerous parties had been 

 arranged, and most of these were successful in then- operations, wliich 

 consisted in the full investigation of Thome Moor, or Waste, as far as is 

 practicable, the southern portion receiving perhaps the greatest share of 

 attention, having been the least worked. Thome Waste, as is well 

 known, is a wild and extensive peat bed, varying from Gin. to 20ft. ih 

 thickness, and in many places unmistakable signs of a submerged forest 

 exist ; the upright stumps of trees, with their roots embedded in the 

 sand, were distinctly seen exposed in the drains and cuttings. The strata 



