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Barbu/a rigidula Mitt. Walls, Lewes, Sussex, [an., 1898. W. E. 
Nicholson Barren specimens with numerous gemmae in the 
axils of the leaves. Mr Nicholson asks, Are they always present 
in this species ? As far as his experience goes, they are. If so, 
they will prove a valuable means of distinguishing it from B. 
vinealis in the barren state. Mr. Dixon finds them in plants from 
Essex, Yorkshire, and Scotland (though occasionally very few in 
number). “ I think it probable that they are always to be found 
among the leaves, and that their presence may be a valuable dis¬ 
tinction between this species and B. vinealis , which sometimes very 
closely resembles it.”—H. N. Dixon Mr. Wheldon finds gemma? 
in Welsh specimens, Aber, N. Wales, Aug , 1861, and where they 
had fallen off the clusters of their stalks always conspicuous. 
Trichostomum lenuirostre var. Holtii (Braith ) Connor Hill Dingle, 
Kerry, 17. 6. ’96. C. H Binstead. “Seems not to agree with 
Braithwaite’s description in several points, e.g., leaves close, some¬ 
what obtuse, cells nearly smooth. None of these apply to the 
specimen received. I doubt correctness of varietal name.”—H.N.D. 
Bryum birnum Schreb. Malinmore, Donegal, May, 1897. J P* 
Parker. Form with very strong border to the leaves. 
Mnium cuspidatum Hedw. Sandhills, Ballykinler, Co. Down. 
April, 1898. C. H. Waddell. New County record. Correct.— 
H. N. D. 
Foniinalis Dixoni Card.? In stream, Chatsworth, Derby, 1898. 
J. B. Parker. “ I think so. Habit, colour, &c., of F. Dixoni, but 
leaves less tapering and a little more concave. Auricles not 
quite so strongly defined, though nearly so. Nearer to Dixoni than 
to squamosa but undoubtedly connecting the two, and rendering 
the independent specific value of F. Dixoni more doubtful.”— 
H. N. Dixon. 
Antitrichia curtipendula Brid. Dungiven, Derry, Oct.. 1897. 
J. B. Parker. New County record. 
Isoihecium myurum var. minus , Bagnall. Hothorpe Park, 
Northants, 2.’98.—H. P. Reader. “A small form simply. Not so 
slender, nor having the special facies of the var. given by its 
acute leaves.”—H. N. Dixon. 
Brachythecium salebrosum B. & S. Alston, Cumberland, Oct., 
1897—J- P ar ker. Correct.—H.N.D. 
B. plumosum var. homomallum B. & S. On rocks, Strabane 
Glen., Tryone, Nov., 1897. J. B. Parker. Teste H. N. D. 
Eurhynchium speciosum Schpr. Ulleskelf.—W. Ingham. Fide 
Dixon & Bagnall. A puzzling plant, which Mr. Ingham sends 
to invite criticism. Mr Bagnall says “the peculiar inflated flower 
of E. speciosum , the irregular and somewhat distant teeth slightly 
recurved at tip, and very narrow long leaf cells, distinguish this at 
once from E. SwartziiB 
