236 TRANSACTIONS, NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY OF GLASGOW. 



Splachnum (2), Encal;>TDta (1), Grimmia (2), Dicranum 

 (G), Trichostomum (2), Tortula (6), Orthotrichura 

 (2), Hypnum (26), Fontinalis (2), Funaria (1), 

 Bartramia (2), Mnium (1), Bryum (11), and 

 Polytrichum (8). The nomenclature has, how- 

 ever, been very much altered since his time, not 

 only in these cases, but in the whole of the Crypto- 

 gamia. Of Hepaticse, he enumerates 16 species of 

 Jungermannia, and 2 species and 1 variety of 

 Marchantia. 



Under Algse, he gives 55 species of Lichen, 4 of 

 Lepraria, 10 of Tremella, 23 of Conferva, 1 of 

 Rivularia, and 1 of Ulva. 



In a note to the list of Algae, above referred to, he 

 says : " Several species of Fuci and Ulvse are to be 

 found at the mouth of the River Clyde, but they 

 scarcely come Avithin the limits of the present 

 Catalogue. The following, however, I have collected 

 on the shore at Helensburgh." He then enumerates 

 22 species of Fucus and 3 of Ulva. 



Under Fungi, he gives Merulius (3), Agaricus (39), 

 Boletus (10), Hydnum (1), Helvella (2), Auricularia 

 (4), Peziza (7), Phallus (2), Clavaria (7, and 3 vars.), 

 Lycoperdon (4), Reticularia (4), Sphseria (8), Trichia 

 (1), Mucor (4). 



To these Fungi fall to be added the 10 species of 

 Tremella recorded under Algae. We find Greville in 

 1824, with reference to the Edinburgh district, 

 writing as follows : " Few Cryptogamic vegetables 

 had been detected or even sought for ; and among 

 the Hypoxyla, Fungi, Gastromyci, Byssoideae, and 

 Epiphytae, scarcely half-a-dozen species were on 

 record." How much, then, does it say for Hopkirk's 

 assiduity that eleven years before this he had 

 chronicled in all upwards of a hundred species of 

 Fungi for the Glasgow district ! 



A few extracts from his notes on these plants 

 may be of interest, and will show how close and 

 acute an observer he Avas, and ho^v curiously he 

 watched these strange forms of vegetation, and 

 sought to read the mysteries of their life-history. 



