402 Mr. M’Coy on some rare Fish 
truly wild and at large. I recollect to have once found a very 
small weak plant of it upon the celebrated “ Bowder Stone” 
in Borrowdale, which at the time I thought a treasure ; but 
I was soon afterwards informed, that some person in the 
neighbourhood had been ornamenting this interesting rock 
by planting garden-flowers upon it, of which, no doubt, this 
crumb of “ London Pride” was aremnant. Mr. Russell, I see 
in your Number for Dec. (p. 314), states that he had received 
the plant some years ago from Clovelly, and that he has this 
year “verified the locality himself,” and ‘is much inclined 
to admit the station as a true one.” Of the correctness of this 
statement I do not mean to venture an opinion, not having 
visited the place myself. But with this exception, if it prove 
to be one, I am much disposed to coincide with Mr, Baines’s 
reviewer (p. 216), that the plant in question “ is hardly found 
in England, except in Yorkshire.” I have visited the wild 
sequestered station, “ Hessleton Gill,” in that county, and 
have there found S. wmbrosa growing luxuriantly and appa- 
rently wild, though occupying a space of no very great extent, 
and am not surprised at any botanist asserting that here, at 
any rate, the plant is truly native. I could, however, assign 
reasons, which yet it would be tedious to detail at length, for 
suspecting, if not for believing, that even here, in this retired 
spot, the plant is not truly indigenous, but introduced by the 
hand of man; and, in short, that S. umbrosa, the “ London 
Pride” of our gardens, is not of native but exotic origin, though 
it has been, in a manner, naturalized in various parts of our 
island. 
I am, Sir, yours faithfully, 
W. T. Bree. 
Allesley Rectory, near Coventry, Dec. 22, 1840. 
XLVI1.—On some new or rare Fish occurring on the Coast of 
Ireland. By Freprericx M’Coy, Esq., M.G.S., &ce. 
Tue following notices of new or rare fish found on the 
coast of Ireland, have been drawn up from specimens con- 
tained, for the most part, in the Museum of the Royal Dub- 
lin Society, and which have been, with few exceptions, taken 
during the last winter by Mr. William MacCalla, a very in- 
telligent and successful collector of marine productions. Be- 
sides the subjects of the present communication, he has en- 
riched the Society’s collection with many rare and interest- 
ing species of Crustacea and naked Mollusca from different 
parts of the coast, which may, perhaps, form the subject of a 
