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NOTE on LINCOLNSHIRE MOSSES and HEPATICS. 

 Some New Mosses for North or South Lincolnshire.— During 



the past year there have been some new species and varieties discovered 

 in the county, six for North Lincolnshire, V.C. 54, and eig"ht for South 

 Lincolnshire, V.C. 53, viz. : — 



Dicranum spurium Hedw. 'Woodhall Spa, Div. 10, 1901, S. C. Stow. 



Pottia bryoides Mitt. Louth, Div. 8, 1901, J. Larder. 



Torlula muralis Hedw. var. cestiva Brid. Court Leys, Div. 13, 1901, 

 S. C. Stow. 



Tortida mutica Ldb. 1901. Taken at L.N..U. Meeting- at Torksey, Div. 6. 

 Barbida lurida Ldb. Louth, Div. 8, 1900, Rev. W. W. Mason. 

 Barbula cylindrica Schp. Louth, Div. 8, 1901, Rev. W. W. Mason. 

 Cylindrothecium concinmim Schp. C ran we'll, Div. 14, 1901, S. C. Stow. 

 Eicrhyncliitim tenellum Milde. Sapperton, Div. 15, 1901, S. C. Stow. 

 Hypnum cupressiforme L. var. ericetorum B.&S. Mere, Div. 13. Rev. 

 W. W. Mason. 



Hypnum adtiucum [typicum) var. gracilescens Schp. Sapperton, Div. 15. 



1900, S. C. Stow. 



H. aduncum (typicum) var. diversifolia Ren. Spalding-. Div. 17, 1901, 

 S. C. Stow. 



H. aduncum (Kneiffii) var. intermedium Schp. Kirkby-on-Bain, Div. 10, 



1901, S. C. Stow. 



H. aduncum (Kneiffii) var. intermedium Schp. forma laxifolia Sanio. 

 Court Leys, Div. 13, 1900, S. C. Stow. 



H. aduncum (Kneiffii) var. intermedium Schp. forma penna Sanio. Sur- 

 fleet, Div. 16, 1901, S. C. Stow. 



These forms of H. aduncum have all been verv kindlv named for me by 

 Mr. J. A. Wheldon. 



The last list of .Lincolnshire Mosses was printed in ' The Naturalist,' for 

 March 1901. — S. C. Stow, Court Leys, Brandon, Grantham, 8th February 

 1902. 



Cypripedium calceolus, etc., in 1782 at Ingleton and Kilnsey. — 



When making- some researches in the Bodleian Library I came upon MS. 

 in the Gough Collection containing a i List of a few of the more rare plants 

 which grow wild in or near the West Riding of Yorkshire, with the places 

 where they grow, made in 1782 ' (no name). 



Of the ' Cypripedium ' he says, ' This plant, having- for some years been 

 an article of sale at Ingleton, the people there having- hunted so much after 

 it that it is almost extirpated in the neighbourhood, I met with only two 

 plants this summer, and these too young to bear flowers. They grew 

 just under the wall at top of the wood among the privet bushes, in the 

 lower part of the Helk, near Ingleton. 



I saw about a dozen plants of it in a g-arden belonging- to Mr. Lobby, 

 attorney-at-law, in Bingley, who told me they were brought from Kilnsea 

 Crag, in Craven, a place I have never seen.' 



Does not this help to account for the scarcity of the plant at the present 

 day? — it is now almost extinct. It has been generally supposed that the 

 removals of this plant were made chiefly in the nineteenth century, but this 

 extract shows that the mischief was done much earlier. 



Of Geranium phceuin he says, ' In a wood near Clapham. But most 

 abundant in Frear Wood, near Chappel in the Dale ; it grows in the lower 

 part of the wood mixt with the Trollius europceus.' 



He also says that Polygonum Bistorta 'is much used as food by the poor 

 people in the months of April and May. They gather the leaves while 

 young and tender, shread them, and, adding a little oatmeal, tie them up in 

 a cloth, and boil them till they become a stiff pudding-, which they eat with 

 Sutter.' W. A. ShUFFKEY, Arneliffe Vicarage, Skipton,8th November 1901. 



NOTE on FLOWERING PLANTS. 



Naturalist, 



