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in those days tlian it is now, on the Lancashire and Cheshire bogs. 

 Sinks Moss is now all under cultivation, but the locality retains some 

 remnants of its former cryptogamic flora, for I have within the last few 

 years gathered Dicranella cerviculata on the peaty ditch bank thereabout. 



Hypmim nitens and H. stellatum were gathered in fruit at Knutsford 

 May, 1832, about the time when Mr. Wilson made his more important 

 discoveries of Hypnum Blandovii and Paludella squarrosa. H. stellatu7n, 

 fertile, I have myself gathered at Knutsford recently ; H. nitens^ how- 

 ever, has not been found with fruit for many years. I believe the 

 fertile plants were destroyed by the drainage which destroyed Paludella 

 squarrosa. 



In April, 1834, Mr. Wilson gathered Phascum alter nifolium, "in 

 excellent state," at Grappenhall ; and Gymnostomum tenue at Lymm, 

 the latter being one of the stations recorded in Bry. Brit. 



Pottia Heimii was gathered in April, 1835, at Norton Marsh, and 

 also at Gate Wharf, near Warrington. 



Tetrodontium Brownianum, barren, was, in May of the same year, 

 observed by Mr. Wilson growing abundantly on the roof of a small 

 cave near the highest part of Helsby Hill. 



On June 17th, 1833, Mr. Wilson gathered, on Congleton Cloud, 

 Dicramm Scottianum in fruit — (I may say that I visited this hill last 

 spring, but could not then find the moss). On the banks of the Dane, 

 near Bosley, Mr. Wilson found OrtJiotricJmm rivulare and Leskea 

 polycarpa. The latter species he also gathered about the same time at 

 Rosthern Mere, where I understand it still grows. 



On the 16th March, 1836, Mr. Wilson found Phascum crispum at 

 Appleton, growing associated with Gymnostomum microstomum ; and on 

 Stretton Moss Splachnum ampullaceum, Tortula revoluta he gathered 

 at Appleton in the following month. 



Other mosses recorded from Cheshire by Mr. Wilson at various 

 times are — 



Dicramm Schraderi^ Oakmere ; Wybunbury Bog (c. fr.) 

 Hypnum ccespitosum, Frodsham. 



Bryum roseum, c. fr., Near Over. — (First found by Mr. Wilson's 

 brother.) 



Fissidens exilis^ Butts Clough, 1834. 



Leskea latebricola, Paper Mill Wood, near Over, with fr., Feb., 1828. 

 Hypnum chrysophyllum, at Grappenhall, and also near Over. 

 Hypnum giganteum^ c. fr., Wybunbury Bog. 

 Manchester, 1884. 



