DISTRIBUTION OF LEJEUNE IN IRELAND. 117 
variety than might be inferred from the descriptions to be found in 
the text-books. That of Dr. Bosw well in E. B., ed. 8, is the most 
the remarkable colour of the inflorese cence—red in bud, changing 
rendered. 
Chenopodium h ba sae L. in N. Somerset. pi last ni Maes 
ber in Bath, growing on rubbish heaps and waste ground, at t 
localities Ecahat widely apart. Quoted for N. Seidieee in Top. 
following records of its occurrence in N. Somerset, where it has 
been found at Berrow; near South Brent ; ; Olenaicis: Compton 
Dando; Saltford and Walton-in-Gordano. The trees at Clevedon 
and Walton-in-Gordano are typical and female. Those at Saltford, 
m 
Hl pr nce 
* Scirpus Tabernemontani Gmel. An addition to the Flor 
Abundant for sixty yards or so in one of the marsh ditches between 
Draycott and Wedmore. This is not on record for N. 8 set. 
Fo 
wet ditches below Cheddar, N. Somerset. The examples were con- 
sidered by Mr. Bennett to be unusually characteristic and typical. 
DISTRIBUTION OF LEJEUNEA IN IRELAND. 
By tue Rev. C. H. Sderrerrige 
g to account for the present distribution of Mosses, especially 
Trelan in ore attention ought to be direc o the 
altered state of the , once covered with woods, whose shady, 
are G, — disappeared, the drained country has become 
r, and these damp-loving species are now rarities, only to be 
found in the iebemon'o of a few shady ravines to which they have 
tired. Is it not probable that these were common ery in the 
ireland of St. Patrick’s days? Even in the time r. John 
Templeton, who diligently studied the Moss-flora of ame and 
