Publisher's Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1902 edition. Excerpt: ...Donard. Fossombronia cristata Lindb.--Shore of Lough Bricklan. Blasia pusilla (L.)--Not uncommon. Metzgeria pubescens (Schrank.)--Scarce, and confined to dry limestone rocks, near Belfast and Sallagh Braes. Chomiocarpon quadratus (Scop.)--Rare; Cregagh Glen; Kerr's Glen. and Sallagh Braes. Targionia hypophylla (L.)--On warm basalt rocks, Cave Hill and Glenarm deerpark, not found recently. Morckia hibernica (Hook.)--Found sparingly in wet place on sandhills at Newcastle. Riccia glauca L.--Colin Glen and rocks at Bangor. Ricciella fluitans (L.)--In still ditches at Loughbrickland, and by Lagan Canal at Kilmore, Co. Down. References.--Moore: Mosses of Ireland (Proc. R. I. Acad., 1872); ditto, Irish Hepaticc e (Proc. R. I. A., 1876); Stewart and Corry: Flora of the North-east of Ireland. 1888; Lett: Mosses, Hepaticce, and Lichens of the Mourne Mountains (Proc. R. I. A., 1889); Stewart and Praeger: Supplement to Flora of the North-east of Ireland (Proc. Belfast Nat. Field Club, 1895); Irish Naturalist: Papers by Waddell and Davies, 18981902. C. H. W. FUNGI. The fungal flora of Antrim and Down has not been thoroughly worked out, though from time to time some attention has been given to it. Templeton studied this group, though not to the same extent as others, and formed a list of 226 species. After his time it seems to have been neglected until 1886, when Rev. H. W. Lett published the result of several years' work at the group in his Fungi of the North of Ireland. This useful list, in which Templeton's is embodied, is the only guide to the mycology of the north-east of Ireland. It contains many Down and a few Antrim records, and brings the total number of species up to 581. Compared with the 5,000 British species, or the 1,000 recorded for...
