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NOTES ON MOSSES AND HEPATIC^ OF ULSTER. 



BY RKV. C. H. WADDKLL, B.D. 



I iiAVK lately had the opportunity, through the kindness of 

 Professor Johnson, of examining a volume in the National 

 Museum containing a mounted collection of Mosses and 

 Hepaticae made in Co. Antrim by Dr. D. Moore during the 

 years 1836-38. At that time he was only at the commencement 

 of his studies in bryology ; some of the names ot the specimens 

 were afterwards corrected by himself, and this will account, I 

 think, for the presence of some errors still remaining. When 

 compiling the Flora ofN.E. Irelandyix. Stewart tells me he was 

 only able to give a hurried examination to the volume. As 

 several plants of interest have been overlooked, and some 

 errors in the naming been perpetuated, it will be well I think 

 to put the following notes on record. In addition to these, I 

 have added some new records and localities additional to our 

 northern flora. New records for coimties are marked with an 

 asterisk. D.M. stands for Dr. Moore's collection above- 

 mentioned, and C.H.W. for the plants found bj^ me. For con- 

 venience I give the names as in the Flora N.E. Ireland, 

 Georgia Brownii (Dicks.), Muell.— The exact locality is "rare, in a 



small glen on the side of Glenmakerran, townland of Ballyvally, on 



mica slate, June^ 1836," D.M. 



Dlcranum Scottil, Turner. — A plant from " wood at head of 

 Glenariflf, 1836," D.M., named at first D. flagellare and corrected to 

 Scottiantim, is only a straight-leaved form of D. scoparhwi (ly.) Hedw. 



*Pottia recta (With.), Mitt. — On bare clay of tennis-ground by the sea, 



Fahan Point, Co. Donegal, April, 1898, collected by J. Hunter. Sent 



to the 1898 exchange of the Moss Exchange Club. This seems to 



be the first record for Ulster. 

 *Pottia Starkei (Hedw.), C. Muell., var. Davallii, Sni.— Under (T^w. 



immittdmn, Scliw. "on grassy fields above coastguards' h., White 



Park, Ballintoy, October, 1838," D.M. 

 ^MoIIia tcnuirostris (Hook, and Tayl.), Lindb. — A specimen labelled 



" Glens of Antrim, 1836," D.M., and corrected to Torliila Jiibernica, 



Mitten, is really the above species. 



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