THE MOSSES OF CO. DONEGAL. 859 
«Specimens were sent to London, from the garden at Cranmore, 
to be figured in English Botany. By inadvertence they were noted 
Sowerby as wild. If Templeton claimed this as a Belfast plant, 
the British Museum, labelled by Sowerby as found by Mr. Templeton 
‘wild in the neighbourhood of Belfast, flowering in June.’ As 
the plant has not recently been found by any one of the many 
diligent botanists who have recently explored that neighbourhood, 
we cannot but fear that this specimen may have been derived from 
Mr. Templeton’s garden.” I have looked up both Sowerby’s speci- 
men and his drawing: the former is labelled ‘‘ Templeton, Ireland’’; 
and on the latter is written: ‘‘ Huphorbia hyberna. Mr. Templeton, 
near Belfast, Ireland.” In E.B.1337 Smith states: “Mr. Temple- 
hood of Belfast, flowering in June”: and it is this sentence, not 
either of the labels, that is paraphrased by Mr. Carruthers. 
James Britten. 
THE MOSSES OF CO. DONEGAL. 
By H. N. Drxon, M.A., F.L.S. 
Durine a stay of a fortnight in the North of Ireland, in July, 
1890, the first part of the time spent in Antrim, the last ten 
in Donegal, I made a small collection of mosses ; and as there is 
very little record of these plants from the latter county, it may be 
h while to publish a list of the species collected there ; the 
un 
repaid; while the isolated grandeur of Errigal and the eerie solitude 
of the Poisoned Glen are attractions of scenery which alone would 
make one well pleased to linger in their neighbourhood. It was 
also a matter of great regret to me that three or four hours were all 
the time I was able to devote to Slieve League, one of the grandest 
pieces of coast scenery in Britain: a mountain one side of whose 
razor-like edge falls nearly 2000 ft. in almost sheer descen into t 
