232 FUNARIACE^. 



FUITARXA Schreher. 

 Sect. I.—Etttosthodon. 



1. r. obtusa {Dicks.) Lindb. (E. ericetorum Be Not.). 



"Wet rocky places by streams— rare, Fr. March— May. Ranges from 

 600 to near 2000 feet. 



Down—Rocky banks of streams on Slieve Donard at 1500 to 1800 feet ; 

 S.A.S. ToUymorePark; H.W.L. Moygannon Glen ; C.H.W. 



2. P. fasdcularls {Dicks.) Schimp. 

 Pastures, and banks— rare. Fr. April and May. 



Down— Ballymaghan, and Sydenham; S.A.S. "Warrenpoint ; C.H.W. 

 Antrim— Giants' Causeway, the Glens, and near Belfast ; Moore, op. cit. 



Grazing fields at Kilroot, and Blackhead ; S.A.S. 

 Derry— Found in crevices of rocks at the side of the Faughan two miles 



below Cumber ; Templeton. 



3. P. Templetonl {Hook.) Smith. 



By mountain streams, and in wet rocky places— not rare. Fr. May — 

 Aug. 



Down — Moist hollows of rocks at Bangor Bay ; Templeton. Moume 

 Mountains near Newcastle ; T. Drttmmond, op. cit. Plentiful, 

 and fine, by the Causeway "Water, and by streams on Slieve 

 Donard; S.A.S. Moume Mountains at Eostrevor, and by 

 the Yellow-water River ; C.H."W. Pigeonrock Mountain, and 

 frequent on the Moume range ; H."W.L. 



Antrim— Abundant by the sides of rivers in northern glens; D.M. 

 Sparingly on rocky margins of streams in RatMin ; S.A.S. 

 SaUagh Braes; C.H.W. 



Sect. 11. — Utifunaria. 



4. P. calcarea Wahlenberg. 

 On limestone— extremely rare. 



Antrim — Limestone soil in the Belfast Deerpark ; D.M. 



5. P. bygrrometrlca {Linn.) Sibth. 



Heaths, walls, waste ground, and rubbish heaps — common. Fr. Feb.^ 



June. 



This cosmopolitan moss is quite as abundant here as elsewhere. 



AMBXiYOBOM- Pal. de Beauv. 

 !• A. dealbatus {Licks.) Beauv. 



