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the summit of Ben Lawers ; Philonotis heterophylla, from near the 

 summit of Ben Lawers; A. geophilum, from the West Coast; Ambly- 

 steyium per minimum, often closely associated with the preceding species. 

 He also reports A. compactum (Sulliv.), as occurring at Loch Killisport 

 and Cardross on the Clyde, and Gynodontium gracilescens (Web. and 

 Mohr), as near Balmaha, Loch Lomond. 



S. M. Macvicar* publishes some additions for 1907 to the Census of 

 Scottish Hepatic*. The list contains ninety-seven new records, arranged 

 under counties or vice-counties. Scapania obliqua Schiffn. and Lophozia 

 Baueriana Schiffn. are additions to the flora. 



Irish Muscinese.f — D. McArdle has prepared the lists of Muscinege 

 for the Dublin Handbook of the British Association. (1) He says that 

 the number of mosses recorded for County Wicklow is 211) species, and 

 for County Dublin is 250 species. Fifteen of the Irish mosses are 

 found in these two counties only. He enumerates sixty-three of the 

 rarer species found in Dublin and Wicklow, adding a list of ten species 

 which have not been found recently, and perhaps are extinct. Another 

 list shows the remarkable geographical distribution possessed by twenty 

 species. (2) The hepatics are treated on similar lines. In Dublin 

 eighty-five species are found, in Wicklow ninety-nine species. Five 

 Irish hepaticse are found only in Dublin or Wicklow. Seven are found 

 in Cork or Kerry also. The number of rarer species enumerated for 

 Dublin or Wicklow is forty-one. Nineteen species are remarkable 

 for their wide geographical distribution. Ten Dublin species and 

 four Wicklow, not recently found, are perhaps now extinct. A 

 bibliography is appended. 



J. H. Davies % publishes some notes upon mosses collected in 

 Co. Down. In a fist of twenty-one species he marks twelve as un- 

 recorded previously for the county, three of them — Tortula anyustata, 

 Barbula gracilis var. nitidis, and Hypnum imponens — being new to the 

 Irish flora, and rare in the British Islands. Archidium alternifolium 

 has escaped notice for seventy years. Thuidium recognitum is also apt 

 to be overlooked. In a later note the Archidium is withdrawn. 



The same author § reports a second station for the occurrence of 

 Weisia rostellata, in Co. Antrim. 



D. McArdle || gives a list of eighty-seven mosses and forty-three 

 hepatics collected by him during a few days' search in and near Correl 

 den, in Co. Fermauagh, during October, l'J05. Notes are added to 

 the more interesting species. 



J. Britten, H. W. Lett, and D. McArdle If severally discuss the 

 records of Dicranum scoHianum in Irish literature, and clear away 

 sundry errors pertaining thereto. 



C. H. Waddell** publishes a note on the rare occurrence of 

 Eurhyncliium striatulum in Ireland, giving some particulars as to its 

 habitat and appearance. It grows chiefly in cool, shady spots on the 



* Ann. Scott. Nat. Hist., No. 67 (1908) pp. 176-9. 



t Handbook to the Dublin District, Brit. Assoc. Dublin, 1908, pp. 86-96 (1 pi.). 

 % Irish Naturalist, xvi. (1907) pp. 215-17; xviii. (1909) p. 23. 

 § Tom. cit., p. 222. || Tom. cit., pp. 232-8. 



f Op. cit., xvi. (1907) p. 310 ; xvii. (1908) pp. 161, 187. 

 ** Op. cit., xvii. (1908) p. 204. 



