78 Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy. 



which had originally appeared in the " Journal of Botany " for the previous 

 year, only one species is assigned to an Irish locality. 



■ The Student's Handbook of British Mosses" (2nd edit.. 1904), by 

 H. N. Dixon, names 37 mosses as found in Ireland, and specifies the localities 

 of 3 of these, while for the Sphagnums, Ireland is not mentioned. 



The Moss Exchange Club published in 1907 !: A Census Catalogue of 

 British Mosses," the Irish portion of which was done by the Bev. C. 

 H. Waddell, b.d., and the present writer. The number of Irish species in 

 this is 449 with 134 varieties, the total being 5S3 : the total for the whole 

 of the British Islands is 893. There is evidence in the lists in this 

 catalogue that the Sphagnums of Ireland have of late been receiving more 

 attention that had been previously paid to them by botanists — 36 species 

 and varieties being listed as Irish out of the 49 known to occur in the 

 British Islands. 



I must mention several muscologists who have worked, and I am glad to 

 say are still working, at the mosses of Ireland. 



Bev. C. H. Waddell. b.d., m.r.i.a., Bector of Greyabbey, Co. Down, has 

 furnished many records from Down, Antrim, Monaghan, Waterford, 

 Limerick, Kerry, and Mayo. 



David MArdle, of Glasnevin Gardens, during the last eighteen years, has 

 furnished reports of his work amongst the mosses and hepatics of Cork, 

 Louth, Galway, Dublin, Wicklow, Sligo, Cavan, Fermanagh, Mayo, and 

 Boscommon, to the " Proceedings " of the Boyal Irish Academy. 



Miss Eleonora Armitage investigated a portion of County Limerick. 



J. Hunter has devoted himself with much success to the mosses of 

 Donegal. 



From W. N. Tetley of Portora Boyal School, Enniskillen, I have received 

 a great amount of assistance, by his collecting mosses in those divisions 

 where scarcely anything had been done, particularly in Fermanagh, Cavan, 

 Leitrim, Sligo, Mayo East, Boscommon, Galway Xorth-east, Galway South- 

 east, Carlow, "Wexford, and Kilkenny. He has established many records 

 from all these divisions, some of which are of species very rare in Ireland, 

 and the following are new to the Irish flora : Oneophorus crenu/atus, IHcranella 

 vo.rio. var. tenella, Dicranum fnscescens var. falcifolium, D. asperulvm, Grimmia 

 - '. Mnium affine var. datum. Ilypnum viride v. majus. 



James Glover of Kircubbin, and WiUiam Porter of Balmoral near 

 Belfast, have also given me much help by sending collections of mosses 

 from Down, Antrim, and Tyrone. 



From Great Britain have come the Bev. C. H. Binstead in 1894 and 

 again in 1900 to Cork and Kerry, and Messrs. D. A. Jones. J. C. Wilson, 



