322 Proceedinrjs of the Royal Irish Academy. 



is very striking and distinct. The female -svas scarcer, and 

 grew apart. In no case did Ave find both growing together, 

 • "which may account in some degree for the scarcity of fruiting 

 specimens. A careful comparison "with Radula Carringtoni 

 "which "was found in the same place by Mr. Holt in 1885, and 

 sent to me with other material by my friend Mr. IT. B. Slater,, 

 p. L. s., to help my investigation of the plants we found, and 

 an exhaustive description of R. Carringtoni by Mr. Pearson in 

 the Journal of Botany for 1882, p. 140, with a translation 

 from Herr Jack's monograph of the Radulae, where he named 

 the plant in honour of its original discoverer Dr. Carrington, 

 who found it in Killarney so far back as 1861, enabled us 

 "without difficiilty to identify our specimens as Radida Carring- 

 toni, Jack, "which had also been found in the same locality by 

 the late G. Hunt, Dr. D. Moore, and Professor Lindberg ; all 

 these authorities referred the plant to Rachda aquilegia, var. 

 major. 



The following interesting memorandum in the late Dr. D. 

 Moore's handwriting is enclosed in a packet of Badula from 

 Killarney in the Herbarium of the Science and Art Museum, 

 Dublin. Unless this is Jungermania complanata, var. y8, men- 

 tioned by Hooker in his British Jungermania, I do not hiow it. 

 The leaves are two-lobed, the upper about one-third the size 

 of the lower, square in shape and closely compressed. The 

 calyces are ventricose and large. The reticulation of the leaves- 

 is rather solid, and not very large, colour brown; there are no 

 pencils of rootlets issuing from the stems as in J. complanata. 

 Found growing on rocks at Killarney. 



The foregoing is a short but accurate description of Radula 

 Carringtoni, and is interesting as having been made many years 

 ago by Dr. D. Moore, and valuable as showing that he recog- 

 nised the plant as a distinct species. 



We sent, together with the Radula Carringtoni, good speci- 

 mens of Radida aquilegia from Annascaul, in the Co. Kerry, to- 

 Mr. Slater, who writes : "I have yours with the fine large speci- 

 mens of Radula aquilegia; it is quite distinct from R. Carring- 

 toni, of which you have succeeded in finding plants of both 

 - - sexes." Mr. Pearson's note in the Journal of Botany is inte- 

 resting ; he writes : ''So far as our knowledge extends this- 

 species has a very restricted distribution, no other localities 

 than those of the south of Ireland being recorded. It is quite 



