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creases, yielding us very fine and abundant examples of Mniuni 

 rosiratum, Zygodon Moiiyeotii, and of what was perhaps tlie best 

 acquisition of the day, Hypnum Teesdalii. On the trees occur 

 Orthotrichwn affine, phyllanthum, pulchellum, and Bruchii (the 

 latter only very sparingly), Omalia trichomanoides , Nechra com- 

 planata and crispa (but no pennata !). The fruit of Dicranum 

 scoparmm was just making its appearance, and in the more shady 

 places Z). majus — amongst which grew Pyro/a media — was abun- 

 dant. Tortula tortuosa and Neckera crispa were observed in 

 tolerable plenty, but the other dysgeogenous species usually found 

 in company with these, and occurring in such plenty on the Upper 

 Oolite of the hills in your neighbourhood, we did not notice. 

 Higher up the valley large quantities of Zygodon Movgeotii, and 

 several of the Racomitria, — R. fasciculare, heterostichum, lanu- 

 ginosum, and canescens, — and Ptychot7iitrium polyphy Hum were to 

 be obtained. Leaving the glen and following up the tortuous 

 course of the stream, over the wide and open moorlands, covered 

 in places with Heath and Ling and Bilberry, we meet with Cincli- 

 dotus fontinaloides and Fontinalis antipyr'etica, and on its banks 

 Bryum pallens, nutans, and pseudo-triquetrum, Polyirichum pili- 

 ferum and juniperum, Fissidens adiantoides, Hypnum commutaium 

 and its var. condensatum, Bartramia arcuata, pomiformis, and 

 fotitana ; and on the rocks, litdivigia ciliata and Campylopus 

 flewuosus. The marshy and boggy places appeared to be filled up 

 almost wholly with Hypnum cuspidatum, Climacium dendroides, 

 and Polytrichum commune, not a single species of Sphagnum pre- 

 senting itself to our notice, although on the neighbouring emi- 

 nence, of a formation similar to that we were examining, the 

 young enthusiasts at the school have collected four species, viz, 

 cymbifolium, compactum, acutifolium, and molluscum, together 

 with Antitrickum Curtipendula and Bartramia calcarea, none ol 

 which we met with on this occasion. 



"The weather which throughout the day had not been very 

 auspicious, was now dull and cloudy, and ' of all that dower of 

 prospect' that lay outstretched beneath us, embracing on the 

 one hand the wide and undulated valley of the Lagan, and in 

 other directions views of the Lough Neagh, Carrickfergus Bay, 

 and Strangford Lough, but little was to be seen, and of the 

 Mourne Mountains only the outlines were very dimly discernible 

 in the distance. 



