310 The Irish Naturalist, October, 



The " reward of ^50 " is more correctly stated in the Cybele 

 to have been " five guineas, Irish currency " ; the entry in the 

 Dublin Transadiojis (iv. 199) runs: — 



'•' For producing Native Plants of Ireland not hitherto 

 described. 



R. Scott, Esq., M.D., Professor 

 of Botany, T. C. D. 



John Templeton, Esq. 



Three new species 

 of Mosses. 



A new species of 

 Rose. 



The fruit on the E- Bot. figure of R. hibcmica is from a 

 drawing sent by Templeton to Sowerby with a letter, preserved 

 in the Department of Botany, which is printed in the Supple- 

 ment to this Journal for 1903, p. 64. 



Scott published tw r o of his mosses in the same volume ot 

 the Transactions, p. 158, with a figure of each, but these seem 

 to have been entirely overlooked. The species — Grimmia 

 maritima and Dicranum Scottianum — are usually cited as of 

 Turner from his MuscologitB Hiberniae Specimen (1804), which 

 is dedicated to Scott. It would appear however that the 

 former should be attributed to Smith, to whom Scott sent it 

 and who " aptly named it Grimmia maritima? The Dicranum, 

 11 to which the partiality of my ingenious friend Mr. Turner 

 has affixed the trivial name Scottianum" was sent to Turner. 

 The references to the species should therefore be : — 

 Grimmia maritima Sm. ex Scott, in Trans. Dublin Soc. iii. 

 158 (1803). 



Dicranum Scottianum Turn, ex Scott, /. c. 

 Scott's third plant is altogether doubtful ; it may, as he sug- 

 gests, be a Rivularia. 



Turner {pp. cit. vi.) makes special acknowledgement of the 

 help he received from Scott and Templeton, to the former of 

 whom he dedicates his book, which he says was begun at his 

 suggestion: — " Viris amicissimis, Roberto Scott, M.D., 

 Botanices, Eblanse, Professori, W. Stokes, M.D. Sacro-Sanctae 

 Trinitatis Collegii Socio, Historise Naturalis cultori indefesso, 

 et Johanni Templeton, Arm. qui, Hiberniae septentrionalis 

 incola, regionem illam montosam et naturae opibus abund- 

 antem labore improbo indagavit, et a quo Flora Hibernica 

 mox est expectanda, sumraas et habeo et ago gratias." 



British Museum, Londou. 



