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the summit of Colin Mountain, near Belfast, the moss Ditrichwm vaginalis, 

 which had not been found in any other station in the British Islands. 

 Davies also collected the following, which were new to Ireland: — Fissidcns 

 rufulus, Dieranum Bonjeani v. rugifolium, Tortula angustata, Barbula acuta 

 v. viridis, B. brevifolia v. subglobosa, Mollia rostellata, M. viridula v. subglobosa, 

 Amblystcgium Knciffii v. laxum, A. Juratzkac, A. serpens v. angttstifolium 

 (Limpr.), Hypnum imponcns, Ctenidium moUuscitm v. condensation, Fontinalis 

 gracilis, all of which he recorded in the " Irish Naturalist." Specimens of 

 mosses collected by him shortly after he came to Ireland are contained in the 

 herbarium of Trinity College, Dublin. 



G. A. Holt, of Manchester, who was for many years a careful and diligent 

 student of cryptogamic botany, collected many mosses in the Killarney district, 

 which he visited in 1885, in the company of Samuel Alex. Stewart, of 

 Belfast, 



Mrs. Leebody, who was born near Portaferry, in the county of Down, 

 and whose death in 1911 was announced in the "Irish Naturalist" for that 

 year, paid considerable attention to the mosses of Derry and Donegal. 

 She resided in the city of Londonderry, and is mentioned in the " Flora of 

 the North-East of Ireland," as the collector of several rare species found in 

 the above counties. 



Dr. It. Braithwaite, f.l.s., in the '■' British Moss Flora," 3 vols. (1880-1905), 

 gives localities in Irish counties for 204 species of mosses, which is a most 

 useful record. In his " Sphagnaceae or Peat Mosses of Europe and North 

 America" (1880), 14 species are described as found in Great Britain, while 

 only four of these are localized as Irish. Braithwaite's Irish localities for 

 mosses and Sphagnums are accordingly 208. He visited Ireland in 1900. 



It is remarkable that the Sphagnums of Ireland have not yet received 

 the attention that might have been expected from their profuse abundance 

 almost everywhere throughout the island. The wide stretches of bogs 

 covered with them, extending across the middle of Ireland, are an unknown 

 land to almost all bryologists. 



Thus it happened that Carrington in 1863 recorded only 9 Sphagnums 

 found in Ireland. Moore in 1872 gives the localities for the same number, 

 which he collected in Wicklow, Kerry, Galway, Dublin, Antrim, and Derry. 



The " London Catalogue of Mosses" (1881) gives 16 species of Sphagnum 

 as British, but only 7 of these, together with 4 varieties, are mentioned as 

 having been found in Ireland. 



Stewart in his " Flora " (1888), and supplement to same (1894), mentions 

 12 species of Sphagnum as found in Ireland. 



In the " European Sphagnaceae " (1901), by E. Charles Horrell, f.l.s., 



