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The Mosses of Co. Donegal (pp. 25, 26). — An apology is 

 certainly due from me to Mr. Hart for having overlooked his paper 

 on the above subject. The only excuse I can give for what is really 

 inexcusable is that Mr. Hart's paper is not indexed under any title 

 but his own name, and was therefore not to be found under any 

 heading to which one naturally referred in looking up the literature 

 of the subject. Fortunately, a knowledge of Mr. Hart's previous 

 paper would not have necessitated any alteration in mine, only nine 

 of the sixty species enumerated by me being given there, and all of 

 those from different localities ; but I none the less regret having 

 left Mr. Hart's previous work unacknowledged. It may be worth 

 while to note here that one or two references in Dr. Braithwaite's 

 British Moss Flora, Suppl. to vol. i.» to records from Donegal Co. 

 under the name "Holt" are doubtless taken from Mr. Hart's paper, 

 the name of the verifier having evidently been copied as that of the 

 recorder ; Mr. G. A. Holt informed me that they were erroneously 

 attributed to him, and a reference to Mr* Hart's paper clearly shows 

 how the error arose. — H. N. Dixon. 



In various books which I 



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have consulted, I have not yet succeeded in finding any special 

 locality given for Trichomona radicans in Spain. The province 

 Galicia is mentioned by Nyman in his Sylloge (1855), and is quoted, 

 with the addition of "in sylvis umbrosis" and "v. s. M by Will- 

 komm and Lange (1861). These authors also add Portugal to the 

 European range. In 1867, Milde quotes Galicia from Nyman, 

 adding, " non vidi." But, strangely enough, Spain and Portugal 

 are altogether omitted in Nyman's more recent Catalogue, the 

 Conspectus Flora Kuropcea (1833-4), and its Supplement (1890), in 

 which we find only two stations given on the European Continent, 

 viz., La Rhune, in the Basses Pyrenees, where it was found in 1880 

 (Gillet et Magne, Soitvelle Flore Fntn^iise, 6me ed. 1887), and 

 St. Jean-de-Luz, in the Western Pyrenees, given on the authority 

 of Petit (1881) in Nyman's 2ud Supplement. I am glad, therefore, 

 to place on record a Spanish locality, for the knowledge of which I 

 am indebted to the kindness of Sir Robert Shaw, who, in September 

 last, showed me growing at Bushy Park, Dublin, a flourishing root, 

 which he told me had been sent to him from Bilbao. — A. G. More. 



Sh,ene maritima growing inland. — It may be worth while to 

 note that, a few years ago, when staying at the Snowdon Ranger 

 Hotel, in North Wales, I found Silene maritima, in some plenty, on 

 the north shore of Llyn Cwellyn, the height of which is given as 

 477 ft. above sea-level. S. maritima is well known as an alpine 

 plant, occurring also in mountain-valleys at a moderate altitude 

 (Cybele Britannica, vol. i. p. 196). Still, it is rare, I believe, to find 

 it growing on the shores of a large lake so far inland as Llyn 

 Cwellyn ;°and the only similar situation in which I have seen it is 



found 



with 



than in Wales.— A. G. Mobe. 



