138 Guide to Belfast. 



Fossombronia cristata Lindb. — Shore of Lou^h 

 Bricklan. 



Blasia pusilla ( L.) — Not uncommon. 



Metzgeria pubescens (Schrank.) — Scarce, and con- 

 fined to dry limestone rocks, near Belfast and Sallagh Braes. 



Chomiocarpon quadratus (Scop.) — Rare ; Cregagh 

 Glen ; Kerr's Glen; and Sallagh Braes. 



Targionia hypophylla ( L.) — On warm basalt rocks, 

 Cave Hill and Glenarm deerpark, not found recently. 



Mdrckia hibernica (Hook.) — Found sparingly in wet 

 place on sandhills at Newcastle. 



Riccia glauca L. — Colin Glen and rocks at Bangor. 



Ricciella fluitans (L.) — In still ditches at Loughbrick- 

 land, and by Lagan Canal at Kilmore, Co. Down. 



Referenxes. — Moore: Mosses of Ireland fProc. R. I. Acad., 1872); 

 ditto, Irish Hepatica fProc. R. I. A., 1876); Stewart and Corky : Flora 

 of the Xorfh-cast of Ireland, 1888 ; Lett: A fosses, Hepatica, and Lichens of 

 the Mourne Mountains ( P roc. R. I. A., 1889); Stewart and Praeger : 

 Sttpplement to Flora of the North-east of Irela?id fProc. Belfast Nat. Field 

 Club, 1895); Irish Naturalist : Papers by Waddell and Davies, 1898- 

 1902. 



C. H. W. 



FUNGI. 



The fungal flora of Antrim and Down has not been 

 thoroughly worked out, though from time to time some 

 attention has been given to it. Templeton studied this 

 group, though not to the same extent as others, and 

 formed a list of 226 species. After his time it seems to 

 have been neglected until 1886, when Rev. H. VV. Lett 

 published the result of several years' work at the group in 

 his Funo^i of the North of Ireland. This useful list, in which 

 Templeton's is embodied, is the only guide to the mycology 

 of the north-east of Ireland. It contains many Down and 

 a few Antrim records, and brings the total number of species 

 up to 581. Compared with the 5,000 British species, or the 

 1,000 recorded for Leinster, the number may seem small, 

 but it would require a much longer time and more workers 

 to make a complete survey of this huge group of plants, 

 which offers a fine field for work. In the absence of proper 

 data it is not possible to say much as to how it compares 

 with other floras. It appears however to be fairly rich. 



