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in mountain rills; B. Ludwigii on wet rocks, Glaramara, not
in fruit; B. zierii in crevices of rocks and on the ground,
Red Screes, Rydal Park and elsewhere; B. Alpinum common, on
the mountains usually barren; B. uliginosum in a branch of
the Wythburn beck, High Raise; B. accuminatum on the eastern
precipiece of Fairfield, between the summit and Rydal Head;
B. mnioides on Helvellyn.
Hypnum flagellare in rocky streams, Stockghyll, &c.; H.
crista castrensis on banks above Troutbeck Park, (by the
road over Kirkstone, Dove Craig, Fairfield, Mardale, and
Hawes Water.
Of those mosses which are rare, except in mountain
districts, may be mentioned as occuring abundantly here,
Anictangium ciliatum, common on walls and rocks.
Anomodon curtipendulum very common, in some situations
bearing fruit abundantly.
Bartramia pomiformis and halleriana are common; B. arcuata
is found here, but rare in fruit.
Hypnum brevirostre is very abundant in woods; H. undulatum
is very fine, and bears fruit in some high woods, generally
near waterfalls.
Nechera crispa is a great ornament to rather wet rocks.
Polytrichum alpinum and urnigerum are common, as are also
Trichostomum acciculare, canescens, fasciculare, lanuginosum
and polyphyllum.
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