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Ihe Irish Naturalist 



August, 



NOTES ON SOME HEPATICS OF UI.STER. 



BY RE;V. canon H. W. IvKTT, M.A., M.R.I. A. 



In the supplement to the Flora of the North-east of Ireland, 

 reprinted from the Proceedings of the Belfast Naturalists' 

 Field Club for 1894-95, at p. 235, at the end of the Cryptogams 

 there occurs this paragraph : — Erroneous or Doubtfui. 

 Hepatics — The following Hepatics quoted from the Temple- 

 ton MSS. have been deemed too doubtful for insertion in the 

 foregoing list. While the greater part are certainly errors, it 

 is probable that some may yet be verified, and with this view 

 they are now made public. 



Porella thuja, Jungermania pumila» 



Cephalozia curvifolia. J. barbata. 



C. byssacea^ /. exsecta. 



Harpanthus scutatus. J. excisa, 



Plagiochila tridenticulata. J> incisa, 



Mylia anomala. Nardia compressa''' 



Jungermania cuneifolia, 

 in the foregoing list Templeton's nomenclature, which was 

 that current in his time, has been replaced by names now 

 adopted. In this quotation Templeton's localities, which are 

 given for the species, have been omitted, as they are referred 

 to further on in this paper. 



It is pleasant to be able to write and show that since the 

 above " black-list " was printed, almost the very thing that the 

 editor expected has occurred. Several of Templeton's records 

 which were doubted have been verified by the rediscovery of 

 the plants in Antrim and Down ; concerning which the follow- 

 ing notes are ofiered : — 



Madotheca thuja (Dicks.) — Mr. Templeton, who knew this Hepatic 

 as lung, thuja^ made two beautiful aud characteristic coloured drawings 

 of it, to which are these remarks, which I quote in full to shew that he 

 made no mistake in identifying this plant : — " Pinnate, with the branches 

 (most unbranched), gradually narrowing towards the apex, leaves round 

 imbricated, having underneath a triple series of stipules. Reticulations 

 of the leaves a series of circles, in all others they are hexagons. Found 

 on the rocks at the Waterfall of the river crossing the road, about a mile 

 on the Belfast side of Carrickfergus, the fall is about two miles up the 

 river, discovered March 31st, 1807." The locality, so very precisely 



