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BOTANICAL LOCALITY RECORD CLUB. 
and vascular acrogens. In 1875, however, a suggestion was made 
that the Club should include in its field the other orders of Crypto- 
gamia, and it is considered desirable that, if possible, this should 
be carried into effect. It is proposed to start with the Mosses, 
for which order Mr. C. P. Hobkirk, F.L.S., and Mr H. Boswell, 
have consented to act as Recorders. A list of the Mosses hitherto 
recorded in Great Britain, entitled “The London Catalogue of 
British Mosses,” has been drawn up by Messrs H. Boswell and C. 
P. Hobkirk, as an aid to collectors, and to secure uniformity of 
nomenclature. A number of specimens have already been sent in 
by several members. At present, however, the funds in band are 
not sufficient to allow of the publication of a Report on Mosses 
without seriously curtailing the Report on the Flowering Plants, 
which it is not considered desirable to do, especially seeing that 
bryologists constitute but a comparatively small proportion of the 
members of the Club. If more botanists interested in Mosses (say 
80) could be induced to join the Club, the additional subscriptions 
(5s. each per annum), would suffice for the publication of a Report 
on Mosses. 
The geographical distribution of the Cryptogamia is a field 
hitherto very little worked, yet full of promise. The Cryptogams 
are far less liable than the flowering plants to be introduced or 
exterminated by the direct agency of man, and though the lower 
Algae and Fungi may depend for their occurrence rather upon the 
presence of their appropriate matrix or medium than upon geogra- 
phical situation, there can be no doubt that the distribution of the 
perennial Mosses, Hepaticae and Lichens, is largely governed by 
conditions of altitude, climate, rainfall, and geologic configuration ; 
and the study of these conditions can hardly fail to yield valuable 
results. No one has hitherto attempted to work out the geogra- 
phical distribution of the Mosses of Great Britain as Mr. Watson, 
in his “ Topographical Botany,” has that of the Phamogams, or as 
the Rev. W. A. Leighton, in his “ Lichen Flora of Great Britain,” 
has that of the Lichens. 
Botanists wishing to join the Club are requested to send their 
names either to Dr. H. F. Parsons, Goole ; or Mr. C. P. Hobkirk, 
Huddersfield. 
The “ London Catalogue of British Mosses ” may be had of Mr. 
T. B. Blow, Welwyn. Price 4d. 
F. Arnold Lees, Market Rasen, 
Recorder for Flowering Plants. 
Chas. P. Hobkirk, Huddersfield. 
H. Boswell, Oxford. 
H. Franklin Parsons, M.D., Goole. 
