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the foot of the Caher Valley, just south of Black Head, and was growing 

 within a few yards of O'Kellyi, from which it was at once recognised as 

 distinct by the eye. I am permitted to say that Miss M. C. Knowles, 

 to whom I had forwarded fresh specimens from Clare, agrees with me 

 in what I have written above, and Mr. R. A. Phillips is still of the same 

 opinion. Miss Knowles has also told me that even when the plants 

 arrived in Dublin, the scent of the flowers, which I would liken to 

 almond-essence, was quite perceptible. Although perhaps not unscented, 

 I do not think that the flowers of Fuchsii ever smell so strongly and 

 sweetly. The leaves of O'Kellyi are of course always unspotted. ^ 



A. W. Stelfox. 

 National Museum, Dublin. 



Mosses of Rathlin Island. 



During a week's visit to Rathlin, July-August, 1924, I gathered the 

 following mosses which have not so far been recorded from the island : — 

 Catherinea undidata Web. and Mohr., Polytyichum urnigerum L., P. 

 piliferum Schreb., Dichodontium pellucidum Schp., Campy lopus flexuosus 

 Brid., Fissidens bryoides Hedw., Rhacomitrium heterostichum Brid., 

 Hedwigia ciliata Ehrh. (scarce), Tortula laevipila Schwaeg. (one tuft only 

 on apple tree behind the Manor house ; S. A. Stewart may have been 

 mistaken about this moss ; he gives it as rupestral whereas it is almost 

 entirely arboreal — vide Dixon's " Handbook ") ; T. intermedia Berk., 

 T. ruralis Ehrh., Barbula unguiculata Hedw., Weisia curvirosiris C. M. 

 {fide H. N. Dixon), Funaria hygrometrica Sibth., Mniunt undulatum L., 

 Plerygophyllum lucens Brid. (only one tuft seen) ; Plerogonium gracile 

 Swartz (seen at Brockley, only on a single stone), Climaceum dendroides 

 Web. and Mohr. (this moss, common elsewhere, is rare on Rathlin), 

 Brachythecium rivulare B. and S., Eurhynchium m,yurum, Dixon, Plagio- 

 thecium denticulatum B. and S., Hypnum stellatum Schreb., H. revolvens 

 Swartz, H. commutatum Hedw., H. Patientiae Lindb. (confined to one 

 field), H. giganteum Schp., Hylocomium splendens B. and S., H. triquetrum 

 B. and S. (not common). 



W. R. Megaw. 

 Belfast. 



1 Dr. Druce in his original diagnosis (Irish Nat. vol. xviii., p. 211) 

 gives the leaves as spotted, but five lines further down says they are 

 unspotted. 



