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Notes on Mosses. 



(2) Rust (Uredo violarum DC.) at Cummersdale, Patterdale, 

 and Cockermouth. (3) Brand (Puccinia violce Schum.) at 

 Wreay, Wetheral, Orton, Kendal, and Bowness. (4) Smut 

 (Urocystis violce Sow.) found at Cummersdale and Cotehill. 



Campion, Red and White (Lychnis dioica L.). The anthers 

 are blackened by smut (Ustilago violacea Pers. ). Recorded 

 for Flimby, Silloth, Cockermouth, Eaglesfield, Furness 

 Abbey, and elsewhere. The leaves infested with a brand 

 (Puccinia lychnidearum Link.). My note-book says : — 

 'Common, much liked by snails,' but, with the exception 

 of Grinsdale and Wetheral, the records are not very exact. 



Pearl wort (Sagina procumbens L.) has once been found near 

 Silverdale attacked by a brand (Puccinia arenarice Sch.). 



Wood Stitch wort (Stellaria nemorum L.), which is abundant 

 at Wetheral, is affected there by a brand which is probably 

 identical with the foregoing- (P. arenarice Sch.), though 

 Plowright and others have not mentioned this plant among 

 their hosts. The life-history would make an interesting- 

 study, as there are numerous other plants growing in the 

 locality on which the alternate generations might be found. 



Stitch wort [Stellaria Holostea L.) attacked by the Rust 

 (Melampsora cerastii Pers.) at Grinsdale. I have found the 

 same parasite on the mouse-ear at Longtown and Thornhill, 

 north of our district. 



Mallow (Malva sylvestris L.) attacked by a Brand (Puccinia 

 malvacearum Mont.), at Stanwix, Cotehill, Patterdale. A 

 species of great interest, though only known in England 

 since 1873. The cause of the failure among Hollyhocks. 



NOTES on MOSSES. 



Pottia bryoides near Louth.— I took this moss on gravel drift at 

 Welton-le-Wold, near Louth, on 5th May. As it is a new record for North 

 Lines. I send a note of it. Mr. M. B. Slater, F.L. S., who kindly identified 

 it for me, tells me he finds it near Malton, Yorkshire, on similar formations, 

 viz., the Oolitic Limestone gravel. Braithwaite, quoting it as a rare plant, 

 gives localities for it in the South and Midlands. — J. Larder, Louth, 10th 

 May 1901. 



Bryum Davalii at Adel, near Leeds.— During April of 1899 I obtained 

 a specimen of Bryum from Adel Bog which remained unnamed until last 

 year. I then came to the conclusion that it was B, Davalii Voit. Dr. 

 Braithwaite, to whom I sent a specimen, concurred, remarking that it was 

 an unusually lowland station for this moss, which is usually an Alpine 

 species. The only previous Yorkshire record was one by Mr. Binstead, for 

 Howgill Fells. His record will therefore, I think, be the first for vice- 

 county 64. — G. B. Savery, Pool, Leeds, 26th April 1901. 



Naturalist, 



