21G THE JOrRXAL OF BOTANY 



Drepanolejeunca li a mat [folia (Hook.) Schiffn. 

 RarpaJejeunea ovata (Hook.) Schiffn. 



FniUan'ia Tamarisci (L.) Diim., S., D. ; F. microplii/lla 

 (Gottsche) Pears.; F.fragilifolia Tayl. ; F. dilatata (L.) Dam. 



XoTE. — In a paper on the Mosses and Hepatics of Killarney 

 written bv me and published in this Journal for 1913. pp. 177-182, 

 the following record was bv an oversight omitted: — Lejeunea 

 (liversiloha Spruce. This beautiful hepatic, known to occur onl}^ 

 in the South-west of Ireland, is well distributed throughout the 

 Killarney district, mixed with mosses and other hepatics. We 

 gathered it at Tore Cascade, Tore Mountain (in pure tufts). Eagle's 

 Nest, Cromaglown etc. 



LIPAllIS LILIIFOLIA a>d L. LOESELII. 

 By James Brittex, F.L.S. 



Hayixg occasion to look up a point in connection with one of 

 these plants, I found that at an earlier period they had been greatly 

 confused. It is not quite easy to see how this could have happened, 

 for the species, even in the herbarium, are abundantly and obviously 

 distinct, and the geographical range of the former excludes it from 

 the European flora. On looking into the matter, various points 

 ])resented themselves which may be of sufficient general interest to 

 place on record. 



The confusion originated with Linnaeus in his description of 

 Ophrys lillfolia (Sp. Pi. 94G : 1754), and formed the subject of a 

 long note by Dryander in the too-little-consulted Solander MSS. (xviii. 

 85i-4) which I cannot do better than transcribe : 



" Linne has in Ilortus CI I fort la ims [p. 429] taken up the English 

 and Dutch plant (0. Loeselii) and added the plant found in Sweden 

 by Celsius. In the first edition of Species Fhoifanim [p. 916], after 

 having received the American plant, he takes that up under the name 

 of O. HI i folia adding the synonym from Ilortus Clijfortianus with 

 ' vix memini ? ' leaving out the mention of England and Holland in 

 the locus, but keeping up Celsii locus. At the same time he takes up 

 Ophrys Loeselii as a distinct species, also found in Sweden. In the 

 2nd edition of Flora Suecica he has both species, the lilifolia from 

 the specimen collected long before by Celsius, which he had not at 

 hand to com])are, having only seen it 20 years before, and the 

 O. Loeselii, from specimens collected by Loetling. Most probably 

 Celsii plant was O. Loeselii .... The plant figured in the Philos. 

 Transact, lays in Gron. herb, for Epidendrum fi. virg. 140, but it 

 cannot be Clayton's 2()0 as he describes flores pallide rubentes, which 

 in this are wliite. What lays in Gron. herb, for Ophrys fl. virgin. 

 138 {lilifolia) seems to be the European plant or Loeselii.'''' 



The specimens referred to in the last sentence are in the National 

 Herbarium, with which Gronovius's plants are now incorporated. 

 Drvandcr is right in both his determinations, but there seems no 



