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which is not the case. I did not observe a single species oiHiera- 

 cium on that high mountain^ nor one on Turk. The whole range 

 seems remarkably barren in species, though they produce so 

 many of the plants which are confined to the south-west of Ire- 

 land, in so far as the British and Irish Floras are concerned. 

 Pinguicula grandijiora abounds there, and had just passed flow- 

 ering; but I got a good supply of plants and some specimens 

 . still nearly in bloom. The severe winter of 1855 seems to have 

 1 proved fatal to a good many of the Arbutus -trees, even at Kil- 

 I larney, where the temperature is so much milder than it is in 

 the eastern and midland counties ; and as for Trichomanes spe- 

 ciosum, I fear it will soon have to be numbered among the plants 

 which once grew there. The idle fellows who call themselves 

 guides, make quite ai;rade of procuring this plant and selling it 

 to visitors, for which purpose they tear it up everywhere they can 

 lay hold of it. I visited two localities, where I saw it in conside- 

 rable quantities in 1843, but not a morsel of it is to be found 

 there now. 



I was able to collect a good supply of specimens of the large 

 Jungermannia Woodsii on Carntual, and some of Sticta macro- 

 phylla at Cromaglowan. Among the more conspicuous species 

 of Lichens which have not yet, so far as I am aware, been enu- 

 merated as Irish, I observed Stereocaulon denudatum growing on 

 rocks near where the upper and lower lakes of Killarney join, 

 and on the north side of Carntual I picked one specimen of Ne- 

 phroma parilis. The former of these I had found some years 

 ago in Connemara, and the latter on a mountain near Glenarm, 

 in the county Antrim, in 1838. 



The form of Equisetum called E. Wilsoni still grows in the 

 lower lake, not far from Mr. Herbert's house, though whether it 

 be the same plant as that originally found by Mr. Wilson in that 

 locality I cannot say, but certainly it is specifically identical with 

 that which grows in the canal and other places in the county 

 Dublin. This again appears to be the same species which I ob- 

 served last autumn growing in the high valley of the Jugadine, 

 near the Bavarian Alps, probably E. variegatum of Weber and 

 Mohr. Living plants from the latter locality are now in this 

 garden, and may yet serve to unravel some of the doubts con- 

 cerning forms supposed to belong to this species. 



