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Field Notes. 



Lincolnshire Plant Notes. — I have always considered 

 Erophila prcecox rare with us. This season it is in places in 

 quantities on the Lincolnshire Limestone (Hibaldstow beds) 

 walls in the village of that name. It is peculiarly selective in 

 the localities it frequents. I took it also in March at Hosej, 

 Leicestershire, and have received it from Mr. H. Fisher, from 

 Barnack, Northamptonshire, so there can be little doubt it is 

 widely, if thinly distributed in Lincolnshire. Thesium humifusum 

 is found in S. Lines. 53, from Hohwvell, on the southern border, 

 to Potterhanworth, just south of Lincoln, on the local limestone. 

 It has not yet been discovered in N. Lines. 54. Gagea fascicu- 

 laris is one of the species recorded and found in Northampton 

 and Rutland, which has not yet been recorded for S. Lines. 

 Spiranthes aiitumnalis , another rare and peculiar species, is found 

 on the Lincolnshire Limestone at Ropsley and Stamford (both in 

 Lincolnshire and Rutland), and in its earlier localities both in N. 

 and S. Lines., on estuarine alluvium or warp. — -E. Adrian 

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PAOSSBS AND HEPATICS. 



Yorkshire Mosses and liepatics. — Campylopus atrovirens 

 var. muticus Milde. This beautiful moss, vivid g-reen above and 

 black below, and usually considered a moss of mountainous 

 districts, I found on bare peaty ground on Skipwith Common 

 on 4th April, 1901. It is known in the 'Appendix to \^ol. I. of 

 the British Moss Flora' as var. epilosus Braithw. It is an 

 addition to the ' Moss Flora of the East Riding,' and the 

 variety is new to Yorkshire ; tested by Mr. Dixon. Dicranum 

 scopariiLin var. ortJiophyllum Brid. This I found at the foot of a 

 hillock in Jackdaw Crag Quarry, Tadcaster, 14th May, 1903. 

 Weisia calcarea var. iniLticum Boul. This very minute moss 

 I found in a crevice of limestone rock in Jackdaw Crag Quarry, 

 Tadcaster, on i6th March, 1900 ; tested by Mr. Dixon. Nardia 

 minor (Nees). This small hepatic I found in Hebden Valley 

 during the meeting of the Yorkshire Naturalists' Union at 

 Hebden Bridge on nth June, 1904. Students of hepatics may 

 be interested to know that this species has many synonyms, the 

 chief of which are Nardia SilvrettcE (the name in Pearson's great 

 work on hepatics), A^. repanda, N. geoscypha, and A'^. hcpmosticta. 

 Hence it appears that this has been a puzzling plant. Mr. Symers 

 M. Macvicar has tested this plant. —Wm. Ingham, York, 15th 

 August 1904. 



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