(Proceedings Belfast Naturalists' Field Club.— Appendix 1862-1883^ 



SUPPLEMENT 



TO A LIST OF THE MOSSES OF THE NORTH-EAST 

 OF IRELAND. 



BY SAMUEL ALEX. STEWART, 

 Fellow of the Botanical Society oj Edinburgh. 



fINE years have passed away since the list, to which this is a supple- 

 ment, was published in the Proceedings of the Belfast Natui alists' 

 Field Club. During that period the world has not failed to move 

 on, nor has botanical knowledge stood still. Stimulated mainly by the Royal 

 Irish Academy, a number of Irish naturalists have been scrutinising nar- 

 rowly the flora of their country. The results of these investigations have 

 been embodied in valuable reports published, or now being published, in the 

 Proceedings of the Academy. These papers, however, have related entirely 

 to the phanerogamic plants, with the exception of that by Dr. D. Moore, on 

 Irish Hepaticae. Meanwhile, with the rolling on of events, we have to de- 

 plore the loss of some who stood in the front rank of the small band of Irish 

 Botanists. Dr. David Moore and Isaac Carroll have been removed by death, 

 and the inexorable fate which so recently overtook our fellow-member, Mr. 

 T. H. Oorry, has deprived our Society of one who felt the deepest interest in 

 the objects for which it was established. The wider field of Irish Botany, 

 too, is affected by the premature loss of one who was doing much to enlarge 

 our knowledge of the native flowering plants, and who hoped to take part in 

 the investigation of our Cryptogamic flora also. 



But while the wheels of fate roll on, bearing away, as we have seen, some of 

 our "best and bravest," they are bringing up to our ranks valuable acces- 

 sions, and new life. Ever since systematic botany assumed the rank of a 

 science, it has not lacked votaries in Ireland, gifted with acuteness of obser- 



