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KELDWITH HEPATICS. 
WM. HY. PEARSON. 
Being the guest of my friend William Dodd, Esq., of Keld- 
with, Windermere, for a week-end, I took the opportunity of 
drying to re-discover the rare Liochlaena lanceolata (Schrad.) 
Dum., which the late George Stabler found in the immediate 
vicinity, as recorded in The Naturalist in his ‘ List of the 
Mosses and Hepaticse of Westmorland.’ Although I searched 
very diligently, I regret I was unable to meet with it. 
Keldwith is very picturesquely situated about 200 feet 
above “ Wooded Winandermere, the river lake,” with a view 
of almost the whole length of the Lake, and in the distance 
the range of mountain peaks from Doe Crag on the extreme 
left, with Coniston Old Man, Wetherlam, Crinkle Crags, 
Scafell, Bow Fell, Great End, Allan Crag and Glaramara on 
the right, making one of the finest views in the Lake District ; 
but being on Botany bent, I had to ‘ turn my clownish back 
to the glory of the sky/ as Browning says; and behind the 
house found an abundance of Lunularia cruciata, and on the 
numerous rills which flow through the grounds, found on 
their banks rich tufts of the rare and beautiful Hookeria 
lucens; but on the rocks in a considerable stream which flows 
near the house, and comes from the fells about Orrest Head, I 
found some very interesting species, the most important 
being Scapania intermedia (Husnot), growing on a rock in the 
stream in small tufts. 
Although Macvicar says, in his * Handbook of the British 
Hepaticse/ that it is a somewhat doubtful species, yet its 
small size, light glistening colour, habit of growth, just like 
Scapania umbrosa, for which I mistook it at first, it appears 
to be quite distinct from Scapania dentata ; but when micro- 
scopically examined, although so small, with perfectly 
developed male and female stems, its near approach to this 
species justifies Mr. Macvicar in his opinion. My other good 
find was an abundance of Madotheca rivularis Nees, which 
clothed the rocks almost to the exclusion of other species. 
On the same wet rocks I met with a few stems of Haplozia 
pumila (With.) K. Mull. ; its paroicous inflorescence separates 
it at once from the commoner H. riparia (Tayl.) ; the Keld- 
ivith specimens are rather larger than the Alpine form, which 
has also a narrower perianth, it is also distinct from the 
paroicous H. rivularis of Schiffner, which is found on wet 
shaley rocks and has broader leaves, with shorter and broader 
perianths, which differences are noticeable in the field, as 
only recently I have had the pleasure of seeing the latter 
growing at Delph, where it had been found by Mr. H. C. 
1922 Oct. 1 
