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Scapania irrlgrua, Nees.— Co. Dowu, in bogs near Saintfield, 1899, 

 lyctt and Waddell. Near Lougbbrickland in tbe Brown bog, 1901, Lett, 

 In both gatherings the plants have perianths in abundance. 



Scapania rosacea (Corda.)— Co. Donegal, Slieve League, 1902, 

 Lett; (/. Nov., 1903). This was the first record of this little gem 

 of a plant from an Irish locality, and it does not appear to have been 

 found since ; it is not mentioned in M'Ardle's List (1904). From Prof. 

 Douin, of Chartres, to whom I sent a portion of this gathering, and who 

 has made a special study of the genus Scapa?iia, I have received this 

 note: — ''This I consider to be true Scap. rosacea (Corda), from its 

 perianth, the direction of the leaves which do not cross the stem, and 

 from the rounded shape of the leaf-cells. C. Miiller, of Fribourg, con- 

 siders Scap. rosacea to be of a certainty a very good species." 



Scapania speclosa (Nees.) Lett.— Co. Down, Slieve Donard, at the 

 Black-stairs, 1887, Lett ; Co. Louth, Carlingford Mountain, the Golden 

 river, 1889, Lett ; Co. Armagh, Camlough Mountain, 1900, Lett ; Co. 

 Donegal, Slieve League, 1902, Lett (/. BoL, Nov., 1904.) All the 

 specimens from these localities are very fine examples of this the 

 largest and most beautifully coloured of the British Scapanias. They 

 have been submitted to Prof. Douin, who agrees with me about them. 



Scapania laxlfolia (Dmrt.) Lett. — Co. Down, Mourne Mountains, 

 Shanlieve, 1898, Lett. David Moore {Proc. R.I A,, 1876) recorded this 

 hepatic from Co. Donegal, while he considered it identical with 

 resupinaia. He says : — " On Muckish Mountain, Co. Donegal, I have 

 seen it tall and straggling among the heath in loose stems quite unlike 

 the fawn-coloured patches on the west coast, yet easily recognizable as 

 the same plant." I have examined Moore's specimen from Donegal, in 

 the Herbarium of the Science and Art Museum, Dublin, and it is pre- 

 cisely the plant which I have gathered in Ulster, Kerry, and Mayo. 



Scapania nemorosa, Dmrt.— Co. Down, Rostrevor, 1899, Lett. 

 Abundant on the rocks — the tufts being filled with sand— along the 

 south bank of the river just above the bridge at Rostrevor. I refer to 

 this record as Templeton in his record of the plant says — " Found in my 

 journey to Mourne Mountains in August, 1803, in Rostrevor Glen." No 

 doubt the same spot in both cases. 



Marsupella funckil (Nees.) — Co. Down, Mourne Mountains, Kina- 

 halla, 1902, Lett. A small patch was found by the side of a path at east 

 of Kinahalla Wood. Co. Armagh, Camlough Mountain, 1902, Lett 

 (M'Ardle's List of Hepaticie). Abundant and in fine fruit at the edge of 

 an old road that passes over the mountain between Newry and 

 Killeavy, just at the gap called Barnish. And also (1904} in abundance 

 at CarrifFkeeny on the north-east face of this mountain, where a long 

 lane ends above the cultivated ground ; some of these patches were a 

 foot wide and fimckii was unmixed in them with any other species, in 

 other patches there was a mixture with Alicularia scalaris. Moore's 

 record (1837) and the above seem to be all that is known of this plant for 

 the nine counties of Ulster, 



