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COMMON PLANTS. 



[February, 



Section II. — Pletjeocaepi. 



An(BctangiwnHornschucManum,'Ko^^e. 

 Habitat, EUlarney, where it was fii'st 

 discovered by the late Dr. Taylor, 

 and now observed to be rather com- 

 mon there. 



Hypnum Teesclalii, Smith. Habitat, 

 near Eantry. Miss Hutcliins. 



Hypnum pumilum, Wilson. Habitat, on 

 trees. Botanic Garden, Griasnevin." 



Hypnum striatiilum. Spruce. Habitat, 

 Killarney. W. Wilson, 1829; and 

 Mr. D. Orr, 1855. 



Hypnum polygamum, 'Bryol. Eiu'op.' 

 Habitat, Portmarnook Sands, where I 

 observed it in 1844. 



Hypnum eleyans. Hooker. Habitat, near 

 Bantry, Miss Hutchius. 



Hypnum ocliraceum. Turner. Habitat, 

 near Bantry, Miss Hutchins. BaUy- 

 cheulish, D. Turner, Esq., 1807; and 

 plentiful in Kelly's G-len, Co. Dublin. 

 By myself, 1839. 



NecJcera pennata, Hall. Habitat, on 

 trees, CoUon Glen, near Belfast. Mr. 

 D. Orr. 



Section II. — Pieueocaepi. 



LesJcea Spruceii, Bruch. Habitat, Port- 

 marnock Sands, on wet spots, 1855. 



Leskea rufescens, Hall. Habitat, on 

 limestone rocks, Benbulbeu. First dis- 

 covered by Professor Dickie, of Bel- 

 fast, and since gathered by myself in 

 same locahty plentifully. 



LesJcea suhrufa, Wilson. Habitat, on 

 limestone rocks, Benbulben, where I 

 found it sparingly in fruit, in July, 

 1844. Mr. Orr finds it at Killarney. 



Hypnum illecehrum, Lui. Habitat, on 

 Ho^\^h. Mr. D. Orr, 



^Hypnum rividare, Bruch. Habitat, 

 Kelly's Glen, Co. Dubhn, 1850. 



* Hypnum chrysophyllum, Bridel. Ha- 

 bitat, Portmarnock, and near Galway, 

 1843. 



Hypnum lycopodioides, Necker. Habi- 

 tat, Howth, and other places near 

 Dublin. 



Hypnum crista-castrensis, Lin. Habitat, 

 CoUon Glen, near Belfast. Mr. D. 

 Orr, 1847. 



Note. — After the foregoing was written, Mr. Isaac Carroll, of Cork, caUed my 

 attention to a Supplementary List of Irish Mosses, pubhshed by hun in the Feb- 

 ruary number of the ' Phytologist ' for 1856 ; I have therefore marked the species 

 which are in his List, and not in ' Biyologia Bi'itannica,' with an. asterisk. — D. M. 



ABDEjSTDA. 



OrthofrieJmm pliyllantlium grows in great abundance on trees, in Su' Chai-les Coote's 

 demesne at Ballyfin, Queen's County, where I collected it in June, 1856. 



Orthotrichum crispuhmi, Hornsch. Habitat, on trees at Ballyfin, along with the 

 former, Jime, 1856. 



— Extract from Journal of Hoyal Dublin Society. 



COMMON PLANTS. 

 By the Rev. Hugh A. Stowell. 



Most of the plants which have a very wide range throughout 

 Great Britain may, in a certain sense, be called ' common.' 

 A very cursory inspection, however, of a list comprising all 



