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SOME NOTES ON 'M0ORLOG.'
Menyanthes trifoliata, Linn. Abundant.
Betula alba, Linn. Abundant.
Sparganium simplex, Huds.
Alisma plantago, Linn.
Eleocharis.
Scirpus fluitans, Linn.
Carex, Several species, nuts only.
Fern.
Much moss.
Second Sample ("This End"), Lat. 54° 30', Long, 2° 40'.
Ranunculus lingua, Linn. Very abundant.
Cruciier ?
Lychnis flos-cuculi, Linn. Fairly abundant.
Spiraea ulmaria, Linn. Four specimens.
Galium.
Valeriana officinalis, Linn. Abundant.
Menyanthes trifoliata, Linn. Very abundant.
Lycopus europaeus, Linn. Fairly abundant.
Betula alba, Linn. Very abundant.
Betula nana, Linn. Abundant.
Sparganium ramosum, Curtis. Fairly abundant.
Carex. Nuts of three species.
Fern.
Third Sample ("Tail End").
Crucifer ?
Menyanthes trifoliata, Linn. Abundant.
Epilobium sp.
Betula ?
Potamogeton. One nut.
Scirpus fluitans, Linn.
Carex. Two nuts.
Fern.
We succeeded in isolating some steins and leaves of mosses,
and these were sent to Mr. F. J. Chittenden, director of the Labo-
ratory of the Royal Horticultural Society, who reports on them as
follows:—" I find Hypnum intermedium in fair quantity, a not
very common moss of our bogs, mostly perhaps in Yorkshire
and Lancashire, but I have it from the New Forest; and
Hypnum richardsoni, a plant found in North America and on the
Continent, nearly allied to our H. cordifolium and H. giganteum,
but at present not represented in Britain. There is also a
Sphagnum, but the only piece I have so far come across is too
imperfect to name, though it bears great resemblance to
S. cymbifolium in the size of the cells and the pores. The first
two, however, are sufficient to enable one to say that the climate