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Funaria calearea and hygrometrica, and Bryum capillare and cesprliciunt. 
These are common Mosses found almost everywhere. 
Cinclidotus fontinaloides, the lesser water moss, Meckera crispa, or crisped 
leaved Neckera. The genus is named after Necker, a celebrated German 
botanist, who denied the existence of sexes in mosses. 
Of the Hypnums, or Feather Mosses, were gathered Zhamium alopecurum, 
Eurhynchium crassinervium, and E. Swartzit, Amblystegium serpens in nice 
fruit, Hypnum palustre var subspherocarpon, H. stellatum var brotensum and 
L. triquetrium. 
Not many Hepatics were found, as the time was altogether too short for a 
proper search; but I may mention Conocephalus conicus, the cone-fruited Liver- 
wort; Asterella hemispherica, the hemispherical Liver-wort ; Arudlania dilttata, 
the tubercled Scale Moss, and from the whole surface of the calyx being covered 
with minute fleshy tubercles ; and Lofhocolea bidentata, the two-toothed Scale 
Moss. 
A word may not be out of place as to preparing Mosses for the herbarium, 
Remove the loose and coarse dirt, and then wash well under the tap, being 
careful not to damage the capsules. After shaking as much water as possible 
from them, lay them on a tray to dry; in four or five days they will be ready to 
arrange in packets, and label with the proper name and number as per London 
Catalogue—the locality and name of collector should also be noted. Then place 
in a larger fold with the name of the genus attached. 
Might I be allowed to suggest that these rambles could be made of permanent 
value to the Society, if complete lists of the objects gathered were handed in to 
the librarian to be catalogued, so that an official register might be made for the 
benefit of the members, showing when and where to find the various objects of 
Microscopical interest in and around Manchester. 
Mr. Hyde then followed with a description of the following plants and ferns 
gathered in the Dale. The following had been mounted for display :— 
I—Asplenium ruta-muraria. 
2—Polypodium calcareum. 
3—Cystopterts fragilis. 
4—Helianthemum vulgare. 
5—Geum rivale. 
6— Hippocrepis comosa. 
7—foterium Sanguisorba, 
8—Saxifrage tridactylites. 
9o— Do. Hypnoides. 
10—Lzstera ovata. 
1i—Anthyllis Vulneraria, 
12—fragaria vesca. 
13—Pyrus Aria. 
Messrs. Graham and Furnival devoted their attention chiefly to Photography, 
and succeeded in procuring good negatives of portions of the romantic scenery 
in the Dale. 
MANCHESTER CRYPTOGAMIC SOCIETY.—At the meeting, July 
17th, Mr. Thos. Brittain, F.R.M.S., in the chair, Mr. S. Ashton brought some 
fern ponds for identification. These came originally from Jersey, and proved 
to be a finely divided form of Asplenium lanceolatum. : 
Mr. Stanley exhibited a number of Hepatics he had recently gathered in 
Derbyshire. ' <a 
Mr. W. H. Pearson read a few notes on Conocephalus conicus and Prezssia 
commutata and exhibited specimens. The latter species had recently been 
collected by Mrs. Perrin in Cheadle, and by Mr. Holt, near Buxton. This 
rather widely distributed species is not recorded for Derbyshire in the London 
