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SUPPLEMENT 
TO A LIST OF THE MOSSES OF THE NORTH-EAST 
OF IRELAND. 
BY SAMUEL ALEX. STEWART, 
Fellow of the Botanical Society of Edinburgh. 
f INE years have passed away since the list, to which this is a supple- 
ment, was published in the Proceedings of the Belfast Naturalists’ 
Field Club. During that period the world has not failed to move 
on, nor has botanical knowledge stood still. Stimulated mainly by the Royal 
Irish Academy, a number of Irish naturalists have been scrutinising nar- 
rowly the flora of their country. The results of these investigations have 
been embodied in valuable reports published, or now being published, in the 
Proceedings of the Academy. These papers, however, have related entirely 
to the phanerogamic plants, with the exception of that by Dr. D. Moore, on 
Irish Hepaticse. Meanwhile, with the rolling on of events, we have to de- 
plore the loss of some who stood in the front rank of the small band of Irish 
Botanists. Dr. David Moore and Isaac Carroll have been removed by death, 
and the inexorable fate which so recently overtook our fellow-member, Mr. 
T. H. Corry, has deprived our Society of one who felt the deepest interest in 
the objects for which it was established. The wider field of Irish Botany, 
too, is affected by the premature loss of one who was doing much to enlarge 
our knowledge of the native flowering plants, and who hoped to take part in 
the investigation of our Cryptogamic flora also. 
But while the wheels of fate roll on, bearing away, as we have seen, some of 
our “best and bravest,” they are bringing up to our ranks valuable acces- 
sions, and new life. Ever since systematic botany assumed the rank of a 
science, it has not lacked votaries in Ireland, gifted with acuteness of obser- 
