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Nees: and Leptogium Moorii, Hepp. He also notices the finding of 
several rare species on the occasion of visits to the two extremes of 
Ireland—the Giant's Causeway and the Killarney district. 
It is to this last locality that Dr. Carrington’s paper refers. 
principal object of his six weeks’ visit was to examine and collect the 
Hepatice, and his catalogue of this family is the most important por- 
tion of his paper. The district had been frequently visited and care- 
fully searched by Mackay, Wilson, Taylor, D. Moore, and others, yet 
many novelties were reserved for Dr. Carrington. These he here de- - 
scribes, and having forwarded specimens to Dr. Gottsche, they are 
published with illustrative figures in the two last decades (xxiii. and 
xxiv.) of Rabenhorst's ‘Hepaticæ Europe.’ His catalogue con- 
tains no less than 104 species, a large number, considering that the 
most recent published list of British species consists of only 182. This 
abundance of the moisture-loving Liverworts is owing, no doubt, to some 
extent, to the equability of the climate, but chiefly to its extreme hu- 
midity; the warm air, laden with the vapour of the Gulf stream, meets 
here in the mountains of Kerry its first barrier. And to the same 
cause Killarney owes its chief Fern treasure, Trichomanes radicans, SW 
a plant speedily disappearing, from the rapacity of fern-collectors, whose 
money is a strong reason for the native guides rooting up every frond 
they can find. It is strange that while disappearing here, we should 
have to record its discovery lately in Cumberland and in Wales, and 
this month also in Scotland ! : 
Dr. Carrington supplies also lists of the Lichens and Mosses which he 
met with; many of them rare and interesting, and some of them new. 
These novelties, as well as two contained in Mr. Hardy's paper, vill 
be found in another page of this Journal. 
MISCELLANEA. 
Tue Curwzse Dare PLUM ACCLIMATIZED IN New SoUTR Wares.—The 
Chinese Date Plum (Diospyros Kaki, or more probably lobata), ® fruit of ef 
cellent flavour, indigenous to China, may now be considered acclimatized 1n 
New South Wales. It isa handsome tree, with wide extending branches, = 
twenty feet in height, and now growing and bearing a profusion oft pe 
the garden of Mr. Guilfoyle, at Double Bay, Sydney, by whom it has be? a 
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