356 ON THE PROBABLE STATUS OF SOME IRISH PLANTS. 
Conocephalus conicus i, Very common on wet soil among a 
on the low ground; uncommon on the hills, where it ascends to 
1800 ft. 
Reboulia hemispherica (u.). Rather common on exposed rocky 
an aks. 
homiocarpon fel (Scop.). Rather common among wet 
shady rocks ; also occurs in stony marshy places. 
nularia eruciata (L.): W.H.P. In flower-pots in a green 
house. x 
*Riccia glauca i * WP. Locally common in autumn 
arden-beds and otato- fields. 
: * Anthoceros secttaa L. Rare; at the side of a ditch ; fr. October. 
In addition to the ere, the Beil ng species have bere 
recorded from West Inverness. Some others, including those ppb 
in the London Catalogue tee Province 16 not mentioned i ney ETP 
may have been from this vice- county; but I have not imme 
access to the records :— a 5 
Anthelia Juratzkana Li impr. ‘¢ On moist rocks below e summi 
of Ben ras in fruit peal 1880 (W. West!).’’ Spruce, On 
Cephalozi 3 : 
Piso (J unger mania) sce (Hook.). Summit of Ben 
Nevis on the ground.” Hooker's Flora Scotica, ae ee 
Marsupella soni (Limp Se Spruce. 3 Ben ~~ i 
000 ft., West, 12th August, 1880.” W. H. Pears 
Journ. Bot. 1892 > te 257. 
Marsupella (Hygrobielia) nevicensis (Carr.). “ Be gave pe 
moist shelving rocks (J. Whitehead!, July, 1875). pru 
C poe “eg 
‘ dupli- 
a (Gymnomitrium) corallioides Nees. ‘‘ Found among 
tee of the latter [A. encima in Dr. Greville’s herbarium ; 
collected on Ben Nevis. . . 1830!” Carrington’s British Hepa 
ON THE PROBABLE STATUS OF SOME IRISH PLANTS. 
By rue Rey. E, §. Marsnat., M.A., F.L.S. 
friends Messrs. Colgan and Scully, in their reply (pp. so 
317) to my remarks, have show n good temper, dignity and modera se 
As the business of a critic is to criticize, I feel that I have nothing d 
reproach myself with in what I wrote; the very ee ae 
book = aires — until they are called upon to produce a — 
itio: € more ae that points open to any seriou 
queso an should is discussed ‘ad: 
In the current ae of the Irish Na soot (p. 160) it is sat 
‘“We —_ that the severe treatment of some of these in Cybele was 
hardly warranted by the facts’; so cheat my contention ogee 
meippoet bors others who haye an intimate acquaintance with 
flora of the Emerald Isle, 
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