LEJEUNEA HOLTII, A NEW HEPATIO FROM KILLARNEY. 73 
remarkable. The materials at our ee pees inadequate 
—go to show that in Ireland, outside the limits of the Killarney 
district, hardly any of these Lejeune ee ‘h. homens was 
nea 
Trish localities in the lump by the ita letter ‘‘1,” aca us no 
help on pee he ad.* 
ak 5b° 85’ Ny Tn later ine ‘all t he other ae bees been 
added by the researches of Ralfs, Curnow, Carrington, Pearson, 
Stabler, Slater, and others, the latest acquisition being the exquisite 
P d d 
L. microscopica, which Mr. Pearson has detected in fine fruit not 
only near Keswick, but in s, near Dolgelly. Jubula 
Hutchinsia (Hook.), a very near ally of the Lejeunee, like 
r genera, once considered specialities of Killarney, have had 
their known distribution similarly extended, e. g., Lophocolea spicata 
Tayl. has been found by Wilson in Anglesey, and aa lately by 
Mitten in Cornwall. Radula aquilegia and R. voluta, Adelanthus 
borders. Radula Carringtoni, however, Scapania nimbosa, and a few 
others, have not hitherto been met with out of the Killarney district.t 
Ifitisa singular fact that so many Lejeunee should be peculiar to 
Britain, it is no less so that even there they should be mainly con- 
fined to the western and south-western coasts, not one of them, so 
far as I know, extending to the eastern side of our islands. Our 
* The coast of Ireland, with the exception of the south-western corner and 
qui b ur Britannic specie exte’ r along the southern 
side of the island at least; and this is rendered more probable when we co 
e le r instance, was first found 
near Cork, by Drammond; not until some years later at Killarney. Daltonia 
splachnoides, the most special, an and the most tropical, of all our mosses, was first 
gathered on Secawn Mountain, near Dublin, therefore quite near the east coast 
alth i 
er 
turned out to be the novel and elegant Daltonia. I was forcibly reminded of 
this oe I found other species of the same genus in the Serge and noted how 
they pr ae to grow perched on the outermost twi 
imil 
oa 
his merely dit 
+ Th us t f the distribution 
of British hs mer latina th of be on achpenlioeneaninns i 
