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C. ulicetana. Silsden Moor. 



E. maculosana, Near Bolton Bridge. 



C. stramineana. do, 



L. praelatella. Grass Wood. 



M. calthella. Bolton Woods. 



A. viridella. do, 



<jr. syringella. Grass Wood. 



In Coleoptera we noticed Melolontha vulgaris in Grass Wood ; 

 ApJiodius riifipes, Grassington ; Leistus fulvibarbis and Patrobiis 

 excavaius, near Bolton Bridge. 



Valley-street, Bradford. 



NOTES ON A FEW NEW EUEOPEAN MOSSES. 



By Gustav Limpricht, 

 (Translated). 



Orthotrichum subalpinum (n. sp.). — This I collected in the sub- 

 alpine region of the Riesengebirges, about 1,250 metres high, growing 

 on Sorbus Aucuparia, in July, 1871. Specimens agreeing in every, 

 particular have been collected by Venturi in the Tyrol, and dis- 

 tributed by him as Orthotr. stramineum foliis crispatis^ Vent. 



The characteristics of 0. suh-alpiniim may be thus summarised in the 

 more prostrate growth of the small tufts, in the slender, crisped 

 (when dry) leav^es, with broadly rotundate points, in the very contracted 

 cryptoporen stomata, in the color and shape of the inner peristome 

 and cilia, and lastly, in the remarkable size and nature of the spores. 



Orthotrichum Rogeri Schimp. Syn., Ed. II-, p. 332, is the only 

 species which requires any notice in the consideration of 0. subalpinum. 

 As, however, Dr. Carl Miiller, of Halle, the possessor of Bridel's 

 original specimens, has repeatedly assured me that my plant in no 

 ' degree is identical with 0. Rogeri Brid., I have preferred, in order not 

 to further confuse matters, to publish it under a new name. 



The description of 0. Rogeri differs very much in the various bryo 

 logical works, and in herbariums and exsiccata? are to be found many 

 - specimens under this name which are mostly to be referred to 0. 

 pallens Bruch., which may easily be distinguished by the pseudo- 

 phaneroporen stomata. These forms of stomata deceived even the 

 acute de Notaris, who in the Epil. d. Briol., Ital, p. 311, judged them 



