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BOTANICAL NOTES. 



Hylocommm squarrosum Linn. Stayley Brushes (C), barren; 



Charlesworth Coombs (D.), in fruit ; Kinder Scout (D.), in fruit. 



Fruits in December. 

 Hylocomium squarrosum b. calvescens Wils. Mellor (D.), barren, 



John Whitehead. 



Hylocomium loreum Linn. Charlesworth Coombs (D.), barren ; 



Kinder Scout (D.), barren. Fruits in December. 

 Hylocomium triquetrum Linn. Marple (C), barren; Disley (C.), 



barren. Fruits in December. 



BOTANICAL NOTES. 

 Rosa lucida (Ehrh.) in Westmoreland.— I noticed several bushes 



of this handsome species last August, in a thicket near the southern end of 

 Meathop Moss. I am indebted to Mr. Baker for the determination of the species, 

 for which only one locality (in Cumberland) is given in his ' Flora of the Lake 

 District.' It seems difficult to account for the occurrence of an American species 

 in such a locality as Meathop Moss. — H. Goss, Surbiton Hill, Surrey, March 

 17th, 1886. 



Additions to the Flora of the Hull District.— During the past 



year the following plants have been added to the list of plants of the Hull 

 district : — Helleborus viridis, Kilnwick ; H. fcetidus. Melton, Mrs. Wilson ; 

 Nymphcca alba, Hornsea Mere ; Cochlearia danica, Hornsea, the coast ; Capsella 

 bursa-pastoris ; Senebiera coronopus, common ; Silene maritimd, Hornsea ; Montia 

 fontana, Swine Moor ; Geranium lucidnm, Brough, Mr. Kingston ; Eroaium 

 maritiuium, Spurn ; Ilex aquifolhim ; Acer campestre, Risby ; Sarothamnus 

 scoparius, Risby ; Trifolium medium, Willoughby Lane ; Loins major, Marfleet 

 Lane ; Orobus tuberosus, Willerby Lane ; Rubus rhamnifolius, Willerby Lane ; 

 Rosa mollissima, South Cave, Mr. Birks ; Pyrus aria, Spring Head ; Cornus 

 sanguinea, Willerby Lane ; Aspemla odorata, Beverley Westwood ; Fraxinus 

 excelsior ; Limnanthemiim nymphteoides, near Cave Castle, may have been planted 

 there ; Cuscuta trifolii, near Hull Bank House and Spurn ; Orobanche major, near 

 keeper's cottage, Brantingham ; Beta maritima, Hornsea, Mr. Dennis ; Parietaria 

 diffusa, Cottingham Church ; Pinus sylvestris ; Luzula sylvatica, Bentley Woods ; 

 Asplenium ruta,-muraria, Cottingham Church. — Ed. Peak, Hull Park, Hull, 

 March 1st, 1886. 



Manchester Cryptogamic Society, January 18th, 1886.— 



A communication from Mr. G. A. Holt on Thamnium angustifolhim (Holt) was 

 read, wherein he described the characters of this new British species which he dis- 

 covered a few years ago in the neighbourhood of Miller's Dale. For several years 

 after its discovery in 1879, Mr. Holt and other bryologists in Britain considered it 

 a variety of Thamnium alopecurnm, its nearest ally, and with which it is associated 

 in its habitat of growth. Mr. Holt, when finding better specimens during May of 

 last year, came to the conclusion that it had sufficiently distinct characters to justify 

 its rank as a species, and having sent specimens to Dr. Kindberg, a Swedish 

 botanist in Linkoping, he unhesitatingly confirmed Mr. Holt's views, and published 

 it shortly afterwards in his ' Critical Revision of European Pleurocarps.' Mr. Holt 

 exhibited the two species and drawings of the dissections of each species. He also 

 said that he had received a letter last month from the eminent Swedish bryologist, 

 Prof. Lindberg, who said, 'Your Thamnium is new and an excellent species.' 

 Mr. J. E. Sunderland sent specimens of the rare Coscinodon cribosus which he had 

 gathered at Coniston on the second of January last. 



Manchester Cryptogamic Society, March 15th, 1886.- 



Mr. Holt distributed copies of reprints from the Journal of Botany describing his 

 new Thamnium atigustifolium from Miller's Dale. The reprints were accompanied 

 with drawings from the pencil of Dr. Braithwaite. 



Naturalist, 



