NOTE ON ROSA HIBKRNICA . 305 



I may perhaps be allowed to give it the name of Rosa Hibernica. ,, 

 The authors of the Cybele Hibernica seem to have overlooked this 

 sentence, for (p. 119) they give " R. hibernica Smith " as the name 

 of the plant, aud say : — " First published in the Dub, Soc. Trans. 

 in. p. 162 (1802) [1803] and afterwards named R. hibernica by 

 Smith in 1810." 



The " reward of £50 " is more correctly stated in the Cybele to 

 have been "five guineas, Irish currency"; the entry in the Dublin 

 Transactions (iv. 199) runs : — 



u For producing Native Plants of Ireland not hitherto described. 

 R. Scott, Esq., M.D., Professor Three new species £ $. &. 



of Botany, T. <J. D. 



of Mosses. 17 1 3 



John Templeton, Esq. I A " ew species of 5 13 9 



Rose. 



£ 



s. 



17 



1 



5 



13 



» J 



The fruit on the E. Bot. figure of R. hibernica is from a drawing 

 sent by Templeton to Sowerby with a letter, preserved in the 

 Department of Botany, which is printed in the Supplement to this 

 Journal for 1903, p. 64. 



Scott published two of his mosses in the same volume of the 

 Transactions, p. 158, with a figure of each, but these seem to have 

 been entirely overlooked. The species — Grimmia maritima and 



Dicranum Scottianum — are usually cited as of Turner from his 



Miiscologia Hibernica Specimen (1804), which is dedicated to Scott. 



It would appear however that the former should be attributed to 

 Smith, to whom Scott sent it and who " aptly named it Grimmia 

 maritima. 19 The Dicranum, "to which the partiality of my in- 

 genious friend Mr. Turner has affixed the trivial name Scottianum ," 

 was sent to Turner. The references to the species should there- 

 fore be : — 



Grimmia maritima Sm. ex Scott in Trans. Dublin Soc. iii. 158 

 (1803). 



Dicranum Scottianum Turn, ex Scott, I. c. 



Scott's third plant is altogether doubtful ; it may as he suggests be 



a Rivularia. 



Turner (op. cit. vi.) makes special acknowledgement of the help 

 he received from Scott and Templeton, to the former of whom he 

 dedicates his book, which he says was begun at his suggestion : 

 11 Viris amicissimis, Roberto Scott, M.D. Botanices, Eblanas, Pro- 

 fessori, W. Stokes, M.D. Sacro-Sanctae Trinitatis Collegii Socio, 

 Historiae Naturalis cultori indefesso, et Johanni Templeton, Arm. 

 qui, Hiberniie septentrionalis incola, regionem illam montosam et 

 naturae opibus abundantera labore improbo indagavit, et a quo 

 Flora Hibernica mox est expectanda, summas et habeo et ago 

 gratias." 



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