THE BRYOPHYTES OF CORNWALL
AND THE ISLES OF SCILLY

*1: Chyenhal Moor, Newlyn, 1841, WC? (OXF) (Paton 1969a: 689).

*2: Bank of R. Fal, Trenowth, N. of Grampound, May 1961, JAP (BBSUK) (Paton 1962: 364, 1969a: 689).

Habitat notes from Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly are as follows. Damp soil in arable fields (mainly cereal stubble, also once in horticulture), where following associates noted: Ceratodon purpureus, Dicranella staphylina, Didymodon insulanus, Ephemerum minutissimum, Epipterygium tozeri, Phaeoceros laevis, Pleuridium acuminatum, Riccia sorocarpa, Tortula truncata, less often with Anthoceros agrestis). Damp acid soil of wet, little-used tracks at edge of heathland, unshaded, sometimes plentiful. Damp soil on tracks in GreyWillow carr and woodland, but only partly or lightly shaded (with Phaeoceros laevis, Riccia subbifurca). Twice on patches on soil of low hummocks created by cattle trampling in marshy pasture, in open or lightly shaded by trees (near Pseudephemerum nitidum). On patches of mainly bare soil in damp pastures (with Fossombronia pusilla, Phaeoceros laevis). Steep mainly bare soil of river bank at edge of pasture (with Fossombronia cf. pusilla). On partly bare soil dug from small ditch in cliff-top flush. Colonist on damp clay of bank beside working china clay quarry, partly bare areas on china clay spoil, near Aneura pinguis, Pleuridium acuminatum, entirely or almost unshaded. Soil near ruined walls, sheltered but unshaded. Soil near path on unshaded slope above coastal inlet. Vertical soil of pathside banks beside wet track, near stream and woodland edge, almost unshaded. Steep soil at road edge, almost unshaded. Soil exposed in wet grassland at roadside. Steep soil of lightly shaded bank above stream (with Dicranella rufescens, Fossombronia pusilla, Lunularia cruciata, Nardia scalaris, Pellia epiphylla, Phaeoceros laevis, Pohlia annotina). Single small patch on firm clay high in inundation zone beside reservoir, unshaded.