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found on our Irish Coasts, never—as far as I know—inland. Car¬ 
rington says. p. 14 “Irish Cryptogams” ‘ A. serpens var. salinnm 
growing in wide brown shallow; patches on sandhills at Malahide, 
Co. Dublin. * * Nerve reaching about half-way, areolae large 
rhomboid. The same moss is found in Southport.’ This was 
published in 1863; the name salinum should therefore take 
precedence of Boulay’s depauperatum , 1884, if indeedt hey refer to 
the same plant. The British plants all seem to be maritime (Mr. 
Stabler’s localities in ‘ Hepaticae and Musci of Westmorland,’ 
p. 296, do not extend above the tide flow) which does not corre¬ 
spond with the habitats given by Boulay & Limpricht. A var. of 
serpens is described in Macoun’s‘ Canadian Mosses’ from stones 
along St. Mary’s river Anticosti, var. xanthodidyon Kindt}. 
(A. serpens * lutescens Kindb. MS.) It has tufts loose yellow brown, 
and differs in areolation from the type. Some of the cells are 
quadrate. This should be compared with our plant. 
It may be useful to give Limpricht’s description, p. 321, of var. 
depauperatum Boulay. ‘ Plants very slander drawn out and prostrate, 
reddish brown when mature, sparingly tomentose, branches very 
small. Leaves distant, appressed when dry, widely patent when 
moist. Stem leaves oqomm. long and o'12mm. broad, nerve very 
short, scarcely f of the leaf, 1. cells o'oogmm. broad and thrice as 
long, thick walled Branch leaves o'iSmm. long and 07mm. 
broad. Capsule short stalked, very small, often top.shaped when 
empty. On roots of trees and on sandy soil.’ 
In a paper read before the Warrington Field Club in 1886, on 
Wilson’s work, Mr. Cash describes finding what was probably the 
same moss in fruit at Southport. Dr. Wood had also found it there, 
and Wilson at first considered it distinct, and thought of calling it 
Leskea Woodii , but finally decided it was a form of serpens. Mr. 
Boswell, of Oxford, was also familiar with it, but could make no 
satisfactory distinction between it and serpens. Mr. Cash says 
Mr Boswell had not seen the fruit which whatever might be said of 
the foliage, was not that of serpens. He sent it to R. du Buysson, 
who thought at first it was A. tenuissimum , a rare continental form, 
but finally decided it to be distinct, and described it as A. Cashii 
in the second edition of his paper on Amblystegium. It would be a 
service to the club if someone who has access to this paper would 
extract his description and remarks thereon for our Note Book next 
year.”—C. H. Waddell. 
