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HEPATIC^ OF THE KING'S AND QUEEN'S 



COUNTIES. 



BY DAVID M'ARDIvK. 



ThK following list of Liverworts enumerates the joint 

 collections made by myself and the Rev. Canon Russell 

 of Geashill Rector}^, at whose kind invitation I made two 

 brief but very interesting excursions, one in the spring 

 of 1890, and again, in August of last 3"ear, to the Bog of 

 Allan, which occupies a considerable portion of the King's 

 County eastward of the river Shannon. I also collected on a 

 small portion of the vSlieve Bloom Mountains, near Clonaslee, 

 Queen's County. A visit to the mountain district earlier in 

 the year, would have been more productive in the plants of 

 which we w^ere in search ; still those gathered are highly 

 interesting, and some of them are quite new to that part of 

 the countr}'. During the summer months want of water is 

 often experienced, and a stillness prevails, and one misses the 

 music of the cascades and tumbling streams of the counties of 

 Kerry and Wicklow, whose moist w^arm glens are the home of 

 more than half of all the Irish liverworts. 



It will be obvious from this provisional list that these 

 districts offer a fair field for further investigation and re- 

 search, and they are part of a long tract of country from 

 which the records of liverworts are very few. 



* Placed before a species or variety denotes that it has not been 

 reported from this locahty, that I am aware of. 



To Dr. Richard Spruce and M. B. Slater, Esq., F.L.S., of Yorkshire, I 

 oflfer my best thanks for their kind replies when consulting them on 

 matters of doubt. 



Mardiantia polymorplia, Linn. — Abundant on the bog near the Geashill 

 railway station. King's Co. — D. McA., 1891. 



Conoceplialus conicus, Neck Margin of a stream, Welsh Island, 



King's Count}'. Brosna river, stream on the Slieve Bloom moun- 

 tains.— D. McA., 1S91. 

 Lunularia cruciata, Linn. — Shady places, Geashill Rectory, King's 



Co.— C. D. R., 1890. 

 PruUania dilatata, Linn. — On the trunks of trees, Geashill, King's Co., 



Brittas Demesne, Queen's Co., plentiful. 

 *Drepano-Lejeunea hamatifolia, Hook. — On the trunks of trees and on 

 decayed wood, in Brittas Demesne, near the Lake, Queen's Co., C. D. 

 R. and D. McA., 1891. 

 *Colo-Lejeunea minutissima, Smith. — On moss covered trunks of trees 

 and on decayed wood, Brittas Demesne, abundant near the lake. — 

 D. McA. and C. D. R., 1891. 

 Eu-Lejeunea serpyllifolia, Dicks. — Cappard, Queen's Co. C. D. R., 1S91. 

 var *patens, Spruce MSS., L. patens, Lindberg. — Dr. Moore 

 on Irish Hepaticae, excellent fig., plate 43. — R. I. A. Proc, ser. 2, 

 vol. ii. 

 Radula complanata, Linn. — On the trunks of trees, Brittas Demesne, 



and Geashill Rectory— plentiful. 

 Lepidozia reptans, Linn. — Damp bank, Geashill Rectory, C. D. R., 1890. 



