232 The Irish Nahcraiist* August, 



MUSCI AND HEPATIOE FROM COUNTY 



FERMANAGH. 



BY DAVID M'ARDLE. 



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



The following appended lists of Mosses and Liverworts are 

 the result of a week's collecting for the R. I. Academy Flora 

 and Fauna Committee in part of the district covered by Mr. 

 Praeger in 1904, and described by him in an excellent article 

 in this Journal — "Among the Fermanagh Hills." 1 I left 

 Dublin on the 22nd of October, 1905, and after a rapid journey 

 reached Enniskillen, where I got some valuable information 

 about the district I wished to collect in, &c, from Mr. T. 

 Plunkett, M.R.I. A., who is w T ell acquainted w T ith the natural 

 history of the county. After a drive of twelve miles along the 

 shore of Lough Erne to Churchhill I found nryself comfort- 

 ably settled in Mr. J. Duffy's farmhouse, which overlooks the 

 lake. I soon struck out for the cliffs to the westward known 

 as Poulaphuca, belonging to the Shean range, which rises 

 to 1,030 feet. The upper portion is well wooded. Here I 

 collected one of our finest mosses, Neckera crispa, which grew 

 in large masses on rocks and on decaying timber, and in the 

 crevices of the wet rocks Templeton's pretty Funaria showed its 

 bright fruit. Breutelia arcuata and masses of the "little tree 

 moss," Climacium deudroides, were conspicuous. Among the 

 Hepaticae I was struck with the dimensions of Scapania 

 resupi?iata, tufts of which measured 6£ inches in length. 

 Bazzania t?ilobata and the tropical Lepidozia aiprcssiyia and 

 others showed similar exuberance of growth. I paid two 

 visits to probably the most interesting part of the district, 

 Correl Glen. The glen is well wooded with Conifers, Birch, 

 Alder, &a, and well sheltered from the north by extensive 

 fir plantations, and is divided by a stream ; large rocks are 

 scattered from the base to the summit, on which mosses and 

 liverworts find a home, and luxuriate in the moist genial 

 atmosphere. 



A Vol. xiii,, p. 232. 1904. 



