3IO Ingham : Mosses and He pa tics of the Buckden Disti'ict. 



I propose now to deal with the uncommon mosses, or those 

 of interest, noted in the diflferent routes taken. 



- ■ Iv— -Buckden Beck and Pike and Cray Gill. 



By the beck the rarest is Ditrichiun tortile, known only from 

 Yorkshire, Sussex, and Kent, and new to the West Riding-. 

 A very pretty pale green Scapania ceqiiilolta, with strong-ly ver- 

 rucose cuticle, occurs here. Near a waterfall was a very large 

 mass of Mnium affine var. elatnvi. 



Near the top of the Pike, and close by a beautiful mass of 

 Ranunculus Lenorniandi, grows a richly-coloured moss, the var. 

 piirpurascens of Hypnu7n exannulatum, which I find is very rare 

 and g-rows only at hig-h levels. Here also is the rarest Sphagnum 

 we saw, viz., the var. spectaliile of S. squarrosum. 



On the top of the Pike, but on the North Riding side, occurs 

 a larg-e Kantia unlike ^ny Kantia we have. A Swedish specialist 

 on this genus, Mr. Macvicar, and myself agree that it deserves 

 more study before it can be correctly named. The same Kantia, 

 also, in large, pure masses, occurs at the top of Deepdale, in the 

 West Riding. I hope to report upon this hepatic later in the 

 year. Near the Kantia, and in a similar habitat, Mr. Johnson 

 found Splachnum sphcBricum. He also found the same moss in 

 fine fruit on the moor above the source of Deepdale Gill. 



In Cray Gill is quite a number of interesting- mosses and 

 hepatics. Perhaps the rarest is the minute Seligeria tristicha, 

 accompanied by the minute hepatic Lejeunea calcarea. A very 

 slender form (of most vivid green colour) of Weisia curvirostris 

 occurs in largfe tufts near a waterfall. In the bed of the gill 

 is a large tuft of the true var. pumila of Philonotis fontana. 

 On the vertical face of a large stone \^ Eurhynchium Teesdalei \n 

 fruit. 



Other mosses of Buckden Beck, Pike, and Cray Gill are : — 

 Bai'bula rigidula Mitt., c.fr., B. spadicea Mitt., c.fr. , Campy- 

 lopus flexuosus Brid., Mniimi rostratum Schrad., Dichodontium 

 pellucidujn Schp., c.fr.,. TricJiostomum mutabile var. cophocarpum 

 Schp., Orthothecium intricatum B.&S., Plagiothecium pulclielliun 

 B. & S. , c. fr. , Wehera cruda Sch wgr. 



The hepatics noted Q.rQ Jungermania riparia T^iyX. , J. Flcerkii 

 Web et Mohr. , J. turbinata Raddi, Scapania aspera MiiU et 

 Bern., Chiloscyphus polyanthos (L.)., Blepharozia ciliaris (L. ), 

 and Preissia commutata , crowded with fruit. 



Naturalist, 



