2o8 The Irish Naturalist. September, 



Mr. Vowell and I did not visit this particular spot in 1884. The last 

 time I saw this plant growing was at Woodford, near Portumna, in 1870. 

 when Prof. E. P. Wright asked me to accompany him on a botanical 

 expedition there. 



I have been always inclined to consider Sisyrinchhim indigenous in 

 Ireland, and the Ben Bulben locality does not alter my opinion. 



I may mention that for eight or ten years subsequent to 1870 the 

 Woodford Sisyrinchinin was grown in the garden here, and in at least 

 three different years I scattered its seeds over a moist coarse meadow by 

 the Enniskerry River, but this method of propagation was always un- 

 successful, for I never found a single specimen. Possibly it may be sown 

 with grass seeds on ploughed land. 



Bray. 



BRYOPHYTA. 



BY DAVID M'ARDLK. 

 [Collected for the R.I. A. Fauna and Flora Committee.] 



As the records of Mosses and Liverworts from Sligo and Leitrim are few 

 in comparison with other counties, I seized every opportunity of collecting 

 during the Conference week. Therefore I selected such ideal collecting 

 ground as Hazelwood demesne, and Rockwood on the shores of Lough 

 Gill ; and my hunting ground about Glencar was confined to the woods 

 and rocks near the waterfall and the Swiss Valley, thus saving the time 

 which would be spent on the walk across the plateau, where, had time 

 permitted, I might have collected some alpine or sub-alpine species of 

 Mosses and Liverworts which are rarely found at low elevations. 



The number of Liverworts collected is very small, due no doubt to 

 the dense growth of the larger vegetation, but they are highly interest- 

 ing. This scarcity was particularly noticeable in Knocknarea Glen ; 

 probably the spring time would be the best to collect these plants in 

 this shady ravine, in which, under the canopy of vegetation, lie forest 

 trees in various stages of decay, overrun with mosses, which seem to 

 quickl)' cover every available spot. 



Ano)nodo7i Titiailosits^ one of our finest Mosses, hangs in festoons from 

 the damp rocks which wall the sides of this glen ; the rocks and stones 

 are covered with luxuriant specimens of CliDiaciiini dendroidcs and Thani- 

 niiim alopcau-um ; on the face of the wet rocks Hypnum comnnitattim and 

 other lime-loving mosses luxuriate. 



The number of Liverworts collected during the excursion is 56. Of 

 these 26 are additions to Co. Sligo or Co. Leitrim, or to District IX. in 

 the Irish Lisf ; these are marked with an asterisk. 



1 D. M'Ardle, List of the Iri.sh Hepaticic. Proc, R. I. Acad.^ vol. xxiv,, 

 sect. B., no. 13, 1904. 



