290 Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academij. 



The Hepaticse collected by Dr. Taylor are included in his excellent 

 work, Part. II, of Dr. Mackay's Flora Hiberniea, and also in the 

 Muscologia Brittanica, of Hooker and Taylor, published in 1827. 



The late Dr. David Moore, of Glasnevin, visited the peninsula many 

 times in search of Hepaticge and Mosses. In 1873 he brought Professor 

 Lindberg, of Helsingfors, to Dingle, and they made searching excur- 

 sions through the most likely places for these plants. The result 

 of their collecting was included by Dr. Moore in his Eeport on the 

 Irish Hepaticae, read before the Eoyal L?ish Academy in 1876, and by 

 Professor Lindberg in his work Hepaticse in Hibemise mense, Julii, 

 1873, lectse. The collections made by both these eminent botanists 

 in the Dingle peninsula are included in the appended list. 



In 1875 I made searching excursions to Mount Brandon and the 

 Maghanabo glen, on the former I discovered Clasmatocolea cuneifolia, 

 and in the glen the rare Dumortirea Mrsuta, var. irrigua, and Juhula 

 EhitcMnsce, var. integrifoUa. The former is also found in the West 

 Indies, and the latter in Java. The presence of these, and other tropical 

 plants, will convey in some degree the moist genial atmosphere which 

 prevails most of the year in the shaded glens of the peninsula. 



The result of my fii'st excursion was very encoiu'aging. In 1881, 

 Mr. P. W. Moore and I stayed a fortnight in Dingle, when we got 

 information on many places of interest from the late Rector, the Bev. 

 "William Anderson, an acute naturalist, and we also made an excursion 

 with Dr. Hudson, medical officei' of the Brandon district. From his 

 residence, then at Vicarstown, he took us over Mount Eagle, and other 

 places, where we made valuable collections. He is well acquainted 

 with the Plora of the district ; he now resides in Dingle. We spent a 

 day on the west side of Mount Brandon, which we ascended from 

 Ballybrack, and from Dingle we collected across Connor pass, and 

 ascended Mount Brandon from the east side near Clohane. Among 

 the rarities collected were Jungermania anomala, and Lejeunea 

 Mversiloha. 



We also visited CastlegTegory, Slievenagower mountain, and on tO' 

 Gloghi'ee, and Lough Doon. Prom the top of Connor pass we struck 

 out for the sea coast, crossed the bridge on the Owenascaul Biver, and 

 on to Minard head, and other intervening places. 



In 1894, I accompanied Dr. E. P. Scharflf, Professor McWeeney, 

 and Mr. J. N. Halbert, members of your Plora and Pauna Committee, 

 to Dingle. Our first excursion was to Anascaul, which means the ford 

 of the heroes, and we struck the River Owenascaul, and followed it up 

 to the Lake. 



