118 a half-day’s ramble in the arrow district. 
river were minute tufts of Weissia cirrhata, and on the river 
bank, Hypnum rusci folium. From Spernal I went past Spernal 
Park to Greenhill Green, gathering on my way Brtjum murale, 
and noticing large tufts of B. capillare and small tufts of B. 
ccespiticium, and in the wood by Spernal Park the beautiful 
flowers of the primrose and anemone, always welcome as 
harbingers of spring. Here also I noticed fine masses of 
Hypnum splendens, as proliferous a moss as is Thuidium tamari- 
scinum, which was also in abundance. On some of the footways 
Hypnum squarrosum was the only moss to be found, but the 
banks were rich in variety; among others Atrichum undulation 
and Weissia viridula were noticeable. In the wood I found an 
abundance of the common scale-moss, Playiocliila heterophylla, 
Polytrichum commune , Dicranum palustre, and Mnium hornum. 
The trees about Greenhill Green were not only well clothed 
with lichens, such as Parmelia saxatilis, Evernia furfuracea, 
Ramalinafannacea, and R.fraxinea, but were also the habitats 
of the squirrel tail moss, Leucodon sciuroides, Tortilla ruralis, 
and the beautiful Zyyodon viridissimus, which is quite abundant 
in the district. At Greenhill Green there is some elevated 
land which appears to be the remains of an old heath; it has 
been at one time marshy, I think, judging by the mosses I 
noticed there. These were Hypnum cuspidatum, quite a 
prevailing moss ; H. molluscum , with its pretty shell-like 
foliage ; H. stellatum, a few isolated patches of H. falcatum 
and H. jilicinum, and dark brownish-green tufts of Tortilla 
fallax and T. spadicea. In a wood near Spernal Park I came 
across a splendid crop of Helleborus viridis, apparently 
thoroughly naturalised; this is a very rare plant in the 
county, and I considered it my best find, and searching the 
wood more thoroughly I found masses of the tree-like 
Thamnium alopecurum , and a most unusual moss in wood¬ 
lands in this county, Grimmia apocarpa. The trees were 
well clad with such mosses as Isothecium myurum in good 
fruit, Hyp. cupressi/orme , and its close ally H. resupinatum, 
and the very noticeable Dicranum fuscescens , this being new as 
a record for the Avon basin. I also gathered a fine patch of 
Fissidens incurvus , and saw an abundant growth of Hypnum 
triquetrum, a moss much used in Christmas decorations ; its 
natural colour, the red stem showing so beautifully through 
the golden leaves, appears so appropriate that it seems a sad 
perversion of taste to dye this moss the unnatural colours 
one sees, often deep blue, and who can imagine a blue moss? 
On the trees in the lanes about Morton Bagot I gathered 
Hypnum serpens, 11. confertum, Tortilla unyuiculata, and saw 
the pale green masses of that peculiar hepatic, Metzyena 
