a of B. pichides exhibit a distinet character of 
of the excurren 
860 THE MOSSES OF CO. DONEGAL. 
the other a chaos of fallen crags overgrown with fern and 
then cucang by ~ vapour of an almost eternal veil of cloud, 
ains of one of the rainiest parts of dampest Ireland; 
every nook aod cranny filled with a luxuriant growth of moss, and 
bright, almost brilliant with orange and purple cushions of Herberta 
a Se and Bleurarie a coenlearaganms This part would, I am assured, 
well repay care 
The following list j is one merely of those species gathered and 
brought home by me; I had no intention at the time of drawing up 
a list, and most of the commoner species therefore passed unnoticed ; 
it has no pretensions to being even the basis of a county-list. 
The only records from Donegal that I have found are six species 
in Moore’s ‘ Synopsis of the Mosses of Ireland,’ 1878, viz., Weissia 
mucronata Bruch, Campylopus Schwar zi Schpr., Mnium affine Bland., 
Oligotrichum hercynicum Khrh., Cylindr athecium concinnum De Not., 
and Brachythecium salebrosum lt Mildeanum Schpr. : at <* Campy- 
lopus setifolius, Slieve Snacht West, Moore,” which I take ot refer to 
Co. Donegal, in Braithwaite, Brit. Moss Flora, Suppl. to vol. 1. 
Mr, David McArdle (to whom I am much indebted for Sestonaetior 
on ie snes) also informs me that he is not aware of any list 
subse t to Dr. Moore’s patdentien. 7 have followed, for the 
sake of pect the nomenclature and order of the London Cata- 
logue, 2nd edition. 
Sphagnum molle var. tenerwm Sull. A very close compact form 
of this species, which I take to be the above variety, in full fruit, 
Doocharry Bridge.—S. tenellum Ebrh. Poisoned Glen 
Andreea petrophila Khrh. Summit of Errigal.—A. alpina Turn. 
Summit of Errigal.—.A. Rothit W. & M., with the yar. faleata Schpr. 
Poisoned Glen. 
Gymnostomum rupestre Schwg. Slieve League. 
Anectangium compactum Schl. Poisoned Glen 
- Dichodontium pellucidum vax. serratum Schpr. ‘lieve League. 
' Rhabdoweissia fugax Hedw. Errigal, 
ae Reel fuscescens Turn. Slieve League. — D. Scottianum 
Turn. rrigal; Poisoned Glen. 
Cileytopue atrovirens De Not. Gweedore, &c. — Var. Jalcatus 
Braithw. Hees Bri — C. brevipilus 
dge. ; n 
tlen, — C, flewuosus Brid. Poisoned Ciag Horn Head. — C. seti- 
Ste oe of sleep : “eh fine in caatifel net wie Ou 
‘Blindia acuta Hedw. Poisoned Glen; Horn Head. The latter 
eens | approaching B. trichodes Wils., of which it has the leaves, - 
but with the fruit and the robust habit of the type. The Rev. H. G. 
moreover pointed out to me that Wilson’s specimens 
areolation in the apex 
t nerve, the cells being of a much more elongated 
in B. acuta ; and this appears to afford a ground for 
