();/ the Fringe of the Ch^veland Hills. 



ubiquitous Wchcra Jiittaiis, in a scorched coiulition. The 

 descent of this hill to Xether Silton yielded the following plants : 

 Sphagtium Girgensohnii, in a large deep mass under heather ; 

 S, aciitifoliiim var. viridc ; the beantitnl variegated S. sitbuitcns 

 var. versicolor: and 5. molluscuiii . forma conipdcia. 



^lixed with the bog-mosses were the true mosses Placio- 

 theciuni unduJatuni and HypJiiou Schreben'. Philoiiofis fontaiia 

 was abundant by a spring in the descent. 



Monday, yd August. — The long dri\-e of this day prevented 

 a search for mosses, and interest did not begin with these 

 plants until Scarth Xick was reached. On the Nick is a small 

 bog, chiefly occupied by a line form of the bog moss Sphagnum 

 recurvunu and with it ^^■as associated "^5. cuspidatum. 



The interesting plants here, howe\'er, are found bv the sides 

 of a small stream. This little stream is bordered on both sides 

 by ^"arled bog mosses, and it is interesting to notice how. bv 

 the side of a stream, these mosses grow in large, rounded, 

 compact masses, embedded ahnost up to their capifula, in wet 

 sand deposited by the stream. 



The most striking moss here was "^5. papillosum var. 

 norniah\ forma conjcrta. The other bog mosses embedded in 

 sand are *5. cynibifoliujii var. paHescens ; 5. subnitens var. 

 virescow in fruit, and var. pallescois. By the stream was also 

 a tall growth of the true moss, Dicrandia squarrosa, but the 

 most interesting species was growing with the 5. rccurvum in 

 the small bog. It is Hypnum cxannuJatum ^'ar. pinnatuni 

 forma acuta, known by its short wide leaves with short points. 

 This is evidently a mountain form of H. exannulatujn. I 

 fotmd the same plant on the Rawthey shoulder of Baugh Fell, 

 and it also grows on \Mddale Fell. These are the only York- 

 shire records known to me. 



Mr. Snelgrove brought some mosses from the moors near 

 Holy ^^'ell Gill. Among them is a very line large growth of 

 Hypnujn Sclircberi, very different in habit from the type of 

 this moss as we know it in the lowlands almost everywhere 

 where heather grows. The other plants he gathered are the 

 Hepatics, Pellia epipJivIIa. DiplopliyUum albicans, and Cephalozia 

 bicuspidafa ; the beautiful and delicate Bog-moss *5. rubcUuni 

 var. rubrum ; very tall Webera nutans (a typical heather 

 moss) ; also very tall Polytrichum cojnmune in fruit ; Dicranella 

 heteromaUa and a little D. ccrviculata ; Catliarinca undulata ; 

 Philonotis fontana ; Hypnum co})imutatu}n and H. falcatum. 



Naturalist, 



