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My friend, the Rev. C. H. Waddell, M.A., Dub., accompanied nie 
in many of my rambles. Besides finding most of the plants which I 
did he met with several varieties that did not fall to my lot. 
My attention having been primarily directed to the plants peculiar 
to the elevated regions, many lowland plants, whose habitats are found 
within the district, have not been recorded as frequently as they might. 
Indeed, the lowland mosses whose localities I have noted, were in most 
cases picked up about the base of the mountains along the various paths 
by which I gained access to the range. 
It is remarkable that, up till quite recently, cryptogamic botanists 
have never found their way into Mourne, in the south of the County 
of Down. And it is the more remarkable because Harris, in his 
Description of the County Down," which was published in 1743, 
pointed to the Mourne Mountains as a likely habitat of botanical 
rarities. Yet the several botanists who assisted with the terrestrial 
cryptogams in Mackay's "Flora Hibernica," published in 1836, do 
not appear to have visited them, there being no reference to any 
locality in the district, so far as I can discover, in the descriptions of 
the musci, hepaticse, and lichens in that volume. 
Mr. Templeton of Eelfast (who died previous to the publication of 
Mackay's "Elora") did collect some mosses among these mountains, 
though his work does not appear to have come under the notice of Dr. 
Mackay. Por I have seen a presentation copy of the 3Iuscologic(B 
SiherniccB Spicilegium, by Dawson Turner, 1804, in which there is 
inscribed in the author's own writing, "John Templeton, Esq., with 
Mr. D. Turner's best respects and thanks for his assistance." This 
book is now in the possession of Mr. Eobert M. Young, C.E., Belfast, 
who kindly lent it to me, and in it are some notes in Mr. Templeton' s 
handwriting of the localities of the occurrence of seven mosses in the 
Mournes. 
Dr. David Moore, in his "Synopsis of tho Mosses of Ireland" 
{Froc. R. LA., vol. i., ser. ii., p. 329, 1873), and in his "Report on 
Irish Hepaticae" {Froc. R.I. A., vol. ii., ser. ii., p. 591, 1877), does 
not once mention tho Mourne Mountains. 
Mr. S. A. Stewart, in his " List of Mosses found in the IN'orth-east 
of Ireland," which was issued as an appendix to the Report of the 
BeKast Naturalists' Field Club for the year 1875, records 31 species 
as found in the Mournes. And in a supplement to a list of the mosses 
of the same district, printed for the above club in 1884, he added 
largely to his original list from the materials furnished by Mr. Waddell 
and myself. Both these lists were most carefully revised, and greatly 
