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that I have specimens of Musci in quantity at his 

 service, as he seems to make the muscology of 

 Ireland his favourite object. 



You will receive by this opportunity a few speci- 

 mens of plants which may be considered as rare 

 with us in Ireland, — particularly the Sium verti- 

 cillatum (truly a Siuni), which I got in marshy 

 ground near Loun Bridge, about four miles from 

 Killarney; Bartsiaviscosa, whose habitat you know 

 {PL Ra7'io7\). I will now answer for the habitat of 

 Saxifraga Geum or hirsuta ? specimens of which I 

 send, having met with it in abundance in that asto- 

 nishing and bewitching spot to the naturalist, the 

 Gap of Dunloc, about eight miles from Killarney, 

 and which divides the black and craggy sides of 

 those stupendous mountains Mac-Gilly- Cuddy's 

 Reeks from the Tornies Mountain, and is the di- 

 rect road and best way to the Purple Mountain. As 

 you may suppose, I did not meet with it in flower, 

 as it is a very early flowering plant, and I went there 

 very late in the season. However, I have sown 

 some of the seeds, and planted the roots, by which 

 means I shall be enabled to determine exactly what 

 Saxifraga it is ; as well as some other species of the 

 same beautiful tribe, particularly some extraor- 

 dinary varieties of Saxifraga umbrosa; Pinguicula 

 lusitanica, common ; Schoenus rufus? on Purple 

 Mountain in abundance. I can assure you that 

 Euphorbia hiberna is uniformly furnished with 

 umbella quinquefida, for I have examined above a 

 thousand growing specimens this season, and met 

 with one only 6-fda. Many measured between thirty 



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