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mosses, which others seem to have no difficulty whatever in deter- 

 mining. In Gymnostonumi microstommn the capsule does exhibit 

 generally, if not an inclination in the capsule, at least an obliquity, 

 and that pretty little mouth never can be furnished with sixteen cleft 

 teeth. The jaw would not contain them." 



On the 10th of May Mr. Wilson, again visiting Over, gathered a 

 good stock of the moss, which was to him at the time an 

 interesting novelty. Subsequently he corresponded with Mr. Bowman 

 resrpecting it, and received from that gentleman specimens from 

 Derbyshire, which proved to be identical with his own Cheshire 

 specimens. 



Mr. Wilson's most notable discoveries at Knutsford in 1831-32 

 {I.e. Faludella squarrosa and fertile Hypnum, Blaridovii) were described 

 in a previous paper ; there is, therefore, no necessity to refer to them 

 in detail here ; but there remain one or two interesting facts to mention 

 in connection with his journeys to Knutsford, Baguley Moor, Castle 

 Mill, and other places in that part of Cheshire. On the 19th of April, 

 1831, he visited the Bollin Valley, and in Butts Clough gathered 

 Mniiim undulatum "in a good state;" also fruiting Jungermauuia 

 iricJiomanes. At Castle Mill he saw " Hypnum salebrosum^ with old 

 fruit, on the slope in the corner of the field." The moss referred to is 

 not the Hypmim saiebromm of Hoffman, but H. glai'eosum., Br. and 

 Sch. (Bry. Eur.). Edward Hobson was the first to detect it as a British 

 moss, and this spot near Castle Mill was where he found it. 



The following memorandum by Mr. Wilson referring to the same 

 visit is interesting : — "In Cotteral Clough most of the trees were cut 

 down, and I could not find J ungermannia tomentella in fruit. Gathered 

 Neckera pumila with over-ripe fruit on several trees near that on which 

 I used to gather it. It ripens about November. Could not see any 

 Mypmm splendem in fruit." Mr. Wilson crossed over from Ringway 

 towards Baguley Moor, and in the fields observed Hypnum poly morphum 

 with nearly ripe fruit. " On Baguley Moor," he wrote, " I gathered 

 plenty of Rypnum aduncum, fr., nearly ripe ; Jungermannia crenulata 

 with fruit ; and in the splash of water a large thick Chara (new to me) 

 along with Chara vulgaris, small var. Gathered also Jungermannia 

 inflata, var. a. N.B. — Hypnum scorpioides is plentiful in the same 

 swampy spot with H. admicum, but always barren. I observed //. 

 Jiiiitans barren on one part of the moor. On returning by the hollow 

 way, near Bollin Bridge, I gathered some very fine Hypnum f licinum 

 in a good state." 



