626 REVIEWS. [November, 



The strictures on Mr. Gosse's ' Omplialos' are by the reviewers 

 reserved for a future occasion. 



" The following species of Mosses, not hitherto recorded as Irish, have 

 been discovered, etc. (see vol. i. p. 857) : — 



SpJiagnum contortum. Wicklow Mountains. Mr. Davis. 



Grimmia Scliultzii. Near the Scalp, Dublin County. Mr. D. Orr. 



OrthotricJmvi Lyellii. Mr. D. Moore. At Clonmel and Powerscourt, 

 on trees. 



Bi-yum Warneum. Mr. D. OiT. North Bull, near Dublin. 



Bnjmn incUnatum. Mr. D. Orr. Botanic Garden, Dublin. 



Bryum cernuum. Mr. D. Orr. Wall round the Viceregal domain. 



Hypnum salebrosum. Mr. D. Orr, Near Botanic Garden, Glasnevin. 



Bplia(j)ium riibellum. Killarney. 



OrthotricJium phyllantlmm. Plentiful, but barren. 



Ortliotriclmvi tenellum. Mr. D. Orr. On Birch-trees, Balliniscorney 

 Glen, County Dublin. 



Bryum torquescens. Mr. D. Orr. Abbotstown, County Dublin. 



Hypnum glareosum. Common near Dublin." 



Mr. John Bain^ Curator, College Botanic Gardens, exhibited 



a very beautiful variety of an Athyrium (?), discovered by a 



lady in the county of Wicklow. 



July, 1858. 



Several pages, filled with an answer to Mr. J. B. Jukes^s letter, 

 noticed in the preceding review, by the author of ' Omphalos,^ 

 may be read by those who can find satisfaction in such attempts 

 to reconcile the facts of science with revealed truths. We do not 

 venture to tread on such dangerous ground, and leave the matter 

 to those who are, by their knowledge of science and revelation, 

 better able to deal with it. 



At page 175 of this number of the Review there is an elabo- 

 rate article by Professor Kinahan, M.D., on the Distribution of 

 Ferns in Ireland, and list of some of the localities wherein they 

 occur. 



In reference to Asplenium acutum, — confounded, the author 

 afl&rms, with A. Adiantum-nigrum, — there is the following state- 

 ment : — 



"... A form of Asplenium Adianium-niyrum exists in several places, 

 amongst others at Mucross, Killarney, which is extremely difficult to dis- 

 tinguish from the printed desc7'iptions of this (the geniune) plant, but 

 scarcely to be confounded with the plant itself. I have no doubt the 



