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on the N.E. slopes for a rich flora, while on several low hills running 

 N.W. by S.E., with intervening valleys owing to peat-cutting, they are 

 rare. Saxicolous species are also rare. Though the district is now 

 intersected by walls, they have not as yet been covered by mosses, 

 and rupicolous species grow best near Knocknaveen (729 feet). Salt 

 is not responsible for their scarcity, for many appear to be halophytes 

 here. The loughs yielded no good results, sphagna being mainly 

 restricted to Creggan Lough. Arboreal species are absent, except in 

 plantations, and cutting down of forests has been a factor in extinc- 

 tion here, leaving only sphagna as relics. Some arenicolous species 

 occur on the shore. Canon Lett indicates the most favourable spots 

 for bryological observation as at Croaghaun Mountain and Knocka- 

 curram. No work had been done in Clare Island previous to this 

 survey, though Achill Island had been investigated. 



Interest attaches to the statistics of the flora given, the total being 

 221, of which seven hepatics are new to Ireland and two are second 

 records. Notes are given as to the distribution of the flora, and the 

 absence of some is emphasised. The flora of Clare Island is said to 

 owe its origin to dispersal of spores by the wind. Following the list 

 of mosses and also that of hepatics come notes on the rarer species, 

 in which the respective areas of occurrence are indicated by I. and 

 M., indicating Clare Island and the mainland. A useful bibliography 

 is appended. 



Part XIII.: Fungi. By Carleton Rea, B.C.L., M.A., and Sir 

 H. C. Hawley, Bart., 19 12. Price is. 



The account of the fungi is divided into two sections, Clare Island 

 being described by the second author, the mainland by the first. In 

 so far as the mycology is concerned this region was previously quite 

 unexplored, /wo species only being recorded by Adams in 19 10, and of 

 1400 Irish species 100 only were known in Connaught. The species 

 and varieties discovered number 802, including 295 species and 

 1 2 varieties new to Ireland, 1 1 new to Britain ; whilst Hawley 

 describes a new genus, Candelospora, genotype C ilicicola sp. nov. 

 (figured), and Rea a new species, Hygrophorus squamulosus 

 (unfigured). The flora of the island differs from that of the 

 mainland, especially in the number of Autobasidiomycetes. The 

 island is bare and wind-swept, the mainland sheltered, fertile, and 

 wooded. It is remarkable that Hypoxylon coccineum, so common on 

 beeches in S. England and elsewhere, is unknown. Hawley's work 

 consisted of some three weeks' collecting, resulting in a list of 283 

 species, with but few coprophilous species and the minute Fungi 

 Imperfecti. The chief woodland is in the N.E. There are two 

 districts: (i) exposed pastures, and (2) cultivated tracts. Several 

 interesting maritime specimens were collected, on Flantago mariiima, 

 etc. The absence of woodland determines the relative poverty of 

 Autobasidiomycetes here, though there is an excess of twenty found in 



