176 ON METZGERIA CONJUGATA, LINDB. 



Its height is marked 2440 ^feet on the Ordnance Map. On it 

 I noted — 



Thalictrum minus, Linn. — From 900 to 1500 feet. 



Sedum RJiodiola, DC. — Frequent. 



Rieracium aitr/lmim, Fries. — At 1500 feet and lower. 



Solidago Virga-aurea, Linn. — At 2440 feet and lower. 



Empetrum nigrum, Linn. — At 2440 feet and lower. 



Salix herhacea, Linn. — At 1800 feet and lower. 



Polypodium Phegopteris, Linn. — In a gully at about 900 feet, 

 between Lough Keagh and the summit. 



Cloon Lough. — The cliffs to the south of Lough Eeagh, which 

 is only separated by a marsh from Lough Cloon, are most rugged 

 and superb. There is a cluster of peaks huddled together in 

 grand confusion, frequently separated by inaccessible ravines and 

 ending downwards in sheer precipices, which are still the breeding- 

 place of the golden eagle. It was here, I believe that Mr. Andi-ews 

 located the discovery of his remarkable saxifrage, S. Andreivsii, 

 Harvey, which is now known to be a garden hybrid, S. Guthriana. 

 I examined the accredited glen with great care, and found a 

 luxuriant series of S. Geiim, Linn., and *S'. umbrosa, Linn., in- 

 cluding S. clegans, Mackay, and S. hirsuta, Linn. Here also, the 

 beech fern, Polgpodium Phegopteris, Linn., the "evergreen fern," 

 Lastraa (Emula, Brack., and both species of filmy fern, Hyvieno- 

 phyllum Tunhridgense, Sm., and H. Wilsoni, Hook., are plentiful. On 

 the east shore of Cloon Lough I met with a few plants of Lastrcea 

 Oreopteris, Presl, which has not been previously recorded from 

 Kerry. This day's botanizing was done in mist and rain, which 

 rendered it, probably, less successful than it would otherwise have 

 been. 



ON METZGERIA CONJUGATA, Lindb. 

 By William West. 



I wish to call the attention of hepaticologists to this species, as 

 I suspect that it exists in herbaria labelled 21. furcata. This is the 

 more likely, as M. furcata and M. puhescens have till recently been 

 regarded by many as the only British species, and these are readily 

 distinguished by fades without a lens. Moreover, it is very few 

 who have access to a description of 21. conjugata and M. linearis, 

 the two other British species ; I have not read a description of 

 either yet. Again, one is used to passing what is taken to be 

 21. furcata as such without microsco^Dical examination : at any 

 rate, I must plead guilty in this respect previous to knowing how 

 to distinguish 21. conjugata. Somehow I happened to soak and 

 examine a specimen of what I took to be robust 21. furcata ; its 

 coarseness struck me, but the generally dense ciliation of the mar- 

 gin and nerve was noticed mostly. I sent it out to one or two 

 correspondents as " 21.J'alcata var. ciliata/ " Mr. M. B. Slater, of 

 Malton, at once replied that it was 21. conju{fata, and pointed out 



