140 ON RADULA CARRINGTONII. 



or ovate-lanceolate, tomentosc, the outer growing gradually smaller. 

 Flowers about 20 in a head. Achene small, brown, glabrous, sub- 

 terete (not seen mature). Pappus ^ in. long, of about 20 uniform 

 white bristles as long as the corolla-tube. — Forests of East Betsileo, 

 Baron 225 ! Native name, Merana. Allied to V. arborea, Ham., of 

 Tropical Asia. 



(To be continued). 



ON BAD'ULA CARRINGTOXII, Jack. 

 By W. H. Pearson. 



" Radula Carrim/tonii, nov. sp. — Dioica. Caule c^espitosa pros- 

 trate, subpinnatim ramoso; foliis imbricatis patentibus integer- 

 rimis, lobo superiore rotundato subreniforme, inferiori quadruple 

 miuari, quadrato, adpresso. Perianthium .... Fusco-olivacea." 

 —Jack, in Flora, p. 385, 1881. 



Badiila aquiletjia, Tayl., var. major ; Carrington in Trans. Bot. 

 Soc. Edinb. vii. p. 455 (1863) ; Lindb. in Acta societatis scientiarum 

 Fennicae, x. p. 491 (1875). Hab. South of Ireland. Tore Woods; 

 Cromaglown; Grlena; Tomes AVoods,Killarney, Dr. Carrington, June, 

 1861. Kocks near Tore Cascade, Killarney, the late G. E. Hunt, 

 1st and 3rd April, 1872 (male), sent by him to Gustav Limpricht, 

 under the name liadula complanata. 0' Sullivan's Cascade ; Glena; 

 Cromaglown, Killarney (female sterile). Prof. S. U. Lindberg ; Kil- 

 larney, Dr. D. Moore. 



So far as our knowledge extends, this species has a very 

 restricted distribution, no other localities than those of the South 

 of Ireland being recorded. It is quite unknown on the Continent, 

 and so far no American or other foreign specimens have been met 

 with. During the past two years, since my attention has been 

 directed to it, I have diligently, though vainly, searched for it in 

 the neighbourhood of Dolgelly, in Wales, where Badula aquilegia 

 and other rare species which were supposed to be peculiar to the 

 South of Ireland are found. 



Superior lobe 1*2 mm. broadx'9 mm. high 1*1 x '8 1*1 + 8 

 •1 X -7 -Ox -7. Lobule -6 mm. broad x -4 mm. high '5 x -4 -5 x "35 

 •5 X "3, superior lobe of the branches -9 mm. broad x *75 mm. high 

 •85 X -7, lobule of the branches -45 mm. broad x '4 mm. high 

 •4 + -35 ■4 + -3. Male ramuli 2 to 3 mm. long, with the leaves 

 •7 mm. broad. Cells smallish, about l-40tli mm. -03 mm. x -0225 

 •0275 + -025 ^0275x^025 -0225 x '02. 



This species, the handsomest of our native Uadidcc, has recently 

 been deservedly named by Herr Jack in honour of its original dis- 

 coverer, Dr. Carrington, whose painstaking labours in this depart- 

 ment of cryptogamic botany have, to the sorrow of his friends, for 

 a considerable time been interrupted by continuous and serious 

 illness. So far back as 1861, when Dr. Carrington first found it, 

 he was inclined to look upon it as a distinct species, but in the 

 absence of male and female, deferring to tiie opinion of some of his 



