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 72 THE MOSSES AND HEPATICS OF STAFFOKDSHIRE. cohffirentes. Hypothecium albidum. Asci clavati, membrana tenui. Sporffi Snse, distichse, simplices, decolores, long. 0-012- 0'008, crass. O-OO7-0-005 millim., ellipsoideae aut ellipsoideo- ovoideffi, apicibus rotundatis. Supra rupem ad Bath Estate in Do- minica (n. 139), una cum Lecanora prosecha et Placodio diplacioide. 8. Thermutis. 1. T. vELUTiNA (Ach.) Fr. Syst. Orb. Veg. (1825) 302 ; Th. Fr. Licb. Arct. 286. Gonionema velutinum Nyl. Ess. Classif. (1855), 168 ; Syn. Licb. 88 ; Licb. Scand. 23, 45. Ad rupem in Chateau Belair in St. Vincent (n. 286). Hypbis parcis supra Scytonema myochroum, at sine apotheciis. (To be continued.) THE MOSSES AND HEPATICS OF STAFFOKDSHIRE. By James E. Bagnall, A.L.S. Mr. Robert Garner, in bis valuable and comprehensive work on The Natural History of Staffordshire, published in 1884, enume- rates 110 Mosses and 20 Hepatics as native of the county, localising only the more rare. Many, however, of the localities given are not in Staffordshire, but in one or other of the neighbouring counties, Worcester, Derby, and Cheshire, only 65 of the mosses and 17 hepatics being localised for this county ; these I have quoted in proper sequence, indicating them by the initials R. G. after the locality. Finding so little had been done in the bryology of Staffordshire, I decided two years ago to take up the matter myself, and I was promised notes and assistance from some of the leading botanists of the county. Only one, however, has fulfilled this promise ; this gentleman, the Rev. A. Ley, M.A., has very kindly sent me a number of specimens and notes, mostly from the Dove Dale and the Wetton Valley, which are duly quoted. I have also a few notes from Dr. John Eraser, who did some excellent work in the county years ago. With these exceptions, I am myself responsible for the following list, in which are recorded about 343 species and varieties of Mosses, and 79 of the Hepaticae. Although this record is better than I anticipated, I believe it to be far from exhaustive ; an area of some 729,000 acres can scarcely be exhaustively worked in two seasons. Sphagnum acuti/olium Ehrh. Beaudesert, Brindley Valley, Cannock Chase ; Trentham ; Chartley Moss ; Ramshorne ; Mor- ridge Top. — Var. rubellum Wils. Sherbrook Valley ; Brindley Valley, Cannock Chase ; Chartley Moss. — Var. elegans Braith. Sherbrook Valley, Cannock Chase. — Var. Imte-virens Braith. Dim- mings Dale, near Alton ; Chartley Moss, Star Wood, Oakamore ; Brindley Valley. — Var. patulim Schpr. Sherbrook Valley ;