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As ^vas pointed out by Eobson (E. B. 1628) the root leaves in that 

 fio:nre are from some other species, and a new plate was made for ed. 3. 

 Various other records occur, but the local floras now place all of them 

 as adventitious — presumably escapes from gardens, — except that of 

 Burgate AVood, Suffolk. In that wood an unspotted Pulmonaria 

 occurs in in'ofusion, and is believed to be native bv C. J. Ashfield 

 (Phvtol., N.8. vi. 8ol : 1862), W. M. Hind (Fl. Suff. 213: 1889), 

 and 'the Rev. E. S. Marshall (in sched., Herb. Mus. Brit.). Since 

 the leaves are unspotted it is evidently '• P. ohscura Dum.," but fresh 

 specimens have not been seen to contirm the petiole character. All 

 other British specimens seen have spots and are P. ojfh'iiialis L. excl. 

 vars. Judging from the distribution, P. ohscura is the more likely 

 form to be native. 



Collectors should remember that specimens without mature 

 (summer) root-leaves are often worthless, these, with the collateral 

 fruiting stems, should be sent out Avith the flowering stems. 

 Collectors would also do well to split down a few corollas and press 

 them opened out : this permits examination of the hairs on the tube 

 which is very ditflcult or impossible after boiling. The same applies 

 to all genera whei'e diagnostic characters are derived from parts 

 concealed by pressing, e. g. Orohauche (especially), Cuscuta etc. 



MUSCIXE.E OF ACHILL ISLAND. 

 By D. a. Joxes. 



Ix the early ])art of August 1911 a ])arty consisting of Messrs. 

 J. C. Wilson and J. B. Duncan, the late Mr. S. J. Owen and the 

 writer visited Achill Island on the west coast of Ireland to explore 

 its cry])togamic flora. We took up our headcpiarters at the village of 

 Dugort. The greater part of the week was spent on Slievemore, 

 a mountain rising almost abruptly from the shores of Blacksod Bay 

 to the height of about 2204 feet. This mountain is remarkable 

 for its mosses and hepatics, the variety and luxuriance of which 

 equal anything found in the British Isles, It was somewhere here 

 that the Bev. Canon Lett, after having wandered for some time 

 in a sea mist, which had suddenly overtaken him, found among his 

 gatherings, mixed with other plants, a few stems of one of the most 

 interesting hepatics discovered durmg recent years— I refer to 

 Adelanthus chigortiensis Douin & Lett. The chief object of our 

 expedition was to search for this rare plant, which had not been 

 found since its discovery by Canon Lett in the year 1903. 



The ])eculiar feature of Slievemore is the masses of vegetation 

 which mark its northern face forming compact " hummocks " over 

 fom- feet in lieight. They are mostly com]K)sed of Ilijmenojjhi/Uum 

 pelfatiim, Scapauia (/racilis, Plai/iochila spinulosa, and Pazzania 

 ivicreuaia, with Aih-lanflnis ihigorfieusis imbedded in the mass of 

 vegetation and appearing here and there as small, rounded, and pure 

 tufts on the even and almost vertical surface of these hummocks. 



