76 The Irish Naliinilist. May, 



The first notice of the plant in Ireland is in Hooker's 

 " British Jungermanniae " (where there is an excellent 

 figure and description at tab. 29) : — " Found on a shady 

 bank of a mountain rivulet, near Bantry, Co. Cork, by Miss 

 Hutchins." The date of Miss Hutchins' collecting would 

 be about 1811. The plant was not refound in Ireland 

 for sixty-two years, when Professor Lindberg of Helsingfors 

 found a small quantity on a wet sandy bank at Cromaglaun, 

 Killarney, in 1873 ; and now again it has been found by 

 myself in a new station luxuriating in Co. Wicklow, in 

 October, 1912, after an interval of thirty-nine years. In 

 England it is rare, and has been reported from nine 

 counties ; in Wales from Dolgelly ; also from Guernsey, 

 France, the Canary Islands, N. Africa ; and I have speci- 

 mens collected in the coast counties of California. 



We were also fortunate in finding Pedmophylhim inter- 

 ruptum (Nees), which was not previously recorded from 

 Co. Wicklow. It is sub-alpine and is found on the Ben 

 Bulben range about Gleniff, Co. Leitrim ; also at Bally- 

 vaughan, Co. Clare ; we were surprised to find it so low 

 as about 300 feet above sea-level. 



The most remarkable instance of a rather alpine genus 

 growing at a ver}^ low elevation which occurs in Ireland 

 among the liverworts, is to be found in Clasmatocolea 

 cuneifoUa (Hook.) (Plate III fig. 4), which grows near the 

 summit of Brandon, Co. Kerry, at about 3,000 feet and also 

 luxuriates in the valley near Tough Duff on damp rocks 

 with Frullania Tamarisci at about 400 feet above sea level. 

 I remember with what interest the late Dr. Spruce received 

 these specimens, some of which I sent him when I first began 

 to study these curious plants. In his splendid work on 

 the Hepaticae of the Amazon and Andes, page 440, he refers 

 to the plant : — " I cannot doubt that the Irish Junger- 

 mania ctineifolia Hook. Brit. Jung., t. 64, hitherto known 

 only from sterile specimens, is a true Clasmatocolea. 

 Specimens gathered on Mt. Brandon by McArdle are so like 

 the arcuate barren shoots of C. fragillima that until I com- 

 pared them closely I thought them the same. The Irish 

 plant like tlic Andine has both entire and bifid under- 

 leaves." 



