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EXTRACTS FROM THE CLUB NOTE BOOKS. 
Radula Carringtoni Jack., Cum Craig, Killin, 7/00. W.Y. 
“ This must he R. Lindbergii for (1) Leaves very gemmiferous, (2) 
Plant smaller and softer than R. Carringtoni, (3) Marginal cells 
smaller than those of interior of R. Carringtoni. In present plant 
they are of the same size, (4) Dyes water yellow green, which R. 
Carringtoni does not.”—W. Ingham. 
Webera annolina , &c. “ The bulbils of W. proligera always 
remind me of an empty kid glove, somewhat twisted, with the 
fingers sticking out in all directions. They also resemble the ax¬ 
illary shoots of Plagiothecium elegans in their young state. Limpricht 
considers that Schimper’s var. ienuifolia is very likely identical with 
W.pioligera. I should think it quite probable that the var. angusti- 
folia also belongs here.” — H. N. Dixon. 
Weisia rnulticapsu/aris Mitt. “ The true plant is found in fallow 
fields and waste places on a siliceous soil, in company with W. 
squarrosa , W. mucronata , Funaria fascicularis, &c., while W. sterilis 
was from our chalk downs.”—W. E. Nicholson. 
Webera proligera, &c. “ I find W. proligera and W. annotina fairly 
widely distributed in Sussex, and I have seen W. erecta in Surrey. 
This form, as shown by Prof. Correns, is very close to W. commuiata. 
W. proligera certainly has the aspect of a distinct species. I have 
seen it fruiting very sparingly by the side of a streamlet from a tin 
working in W. Cornwall, and the fruit appears to maintain the 
characters assigned to it by Limpricht.”—W. E. Nicholson. 
Fossombronia pusilla L., M. E. Club Report, 1900, p. 63. 
“ Mr. Macvicar has again examined all my gatherings from the pool 
by the R. Foss, York, and finds there is no F. cristata , as he first 
thought. All the packets sent out are F. pusilla with the ridges on 
the spores less elevated than normal. I find F. pusilla grows on 
the vertical sandy sides of pools and ditches, much more in the 
shade than F. cristata, which latter seems most at home in the open 
stubble field, usually in company with Riccia sorocarpa. 
In examining Hepatics, Mr. Macvicar gives what I find a very 
useful rule with these most variable plants, viz., to take an average 
of several leaves, spores, &c. In F. cristata , for example, some 
spores have less than 30 ridges, others have more than 30. An 
average of a good number of them gives about 30 ridges, whereas 
F. pusilla never has more than 24, and usually much less, 15 to 18.” 
—W. Ingham. 
Hypnum cordifolium Hedw., forma, Strensall Common, 1888, leg. 
J. A. Wheldon. “ It will be interesting to find that the inflor¬ 
escence in R. giganteum is somewhat unstable, especially in view of 
R. Richardsoni Mitt., (which should be found here, as it occurs in 
Pleistocene deposits in England,) a somewhat unsatisfactory plant, 
differing in habit from both species, but otherwise somewhat inter¬ 
mediate between the two.”—H. N. Dixon. 
