402 Mr. M'Coy on some rare Fish truly wild and at large. I recollect to have once found a very small weak plant of it upon the celebrated " Bowder Stone" in Borrowdale, which at the time T thought a treasure ; but I was soon afterwards informed, that some person in the neighbourhood had been ornamenting this interesting rock by planting garden-flowers upon it, of which, no doubt, this crumb of " London Pride " was a remnant. Mr. Russell, I see in your Number for Dec. (p. 314), states that he had received the plant some years ago from Clovelly, and that he has this year i( verified the locality himself," and " is much inclined to admit the station as a true one." Of the correctness of this statement I do not mean to venture an opinion, not having visited the place myself. But with this exception, if it prove to be one, I am much disposed to coincide with Mr. Baines's reviewer (p. 216), that the plant in question " is hardly found in England, except in Yorkshire." I have visited the wild sequestered station, u Hessleton Gill," in that county, and have there found S. umbrosa growing luxuriantly and appa-rently wild, though occupying a space of no very great extent, and am not surprised at any botanist asserting that here, at any rate, the plant is truly native. I could, however, assign reasons, which yet it would be tedious to detail at length, for suspecting, if not for believing, that even here, in this retired spot, the plant is not truly indigenous, but introduced by the hand of man; and, in short, that S. umbrosa, the "London Pride" of our gardens, is not of native but exotic origin, though it has been, in a manner, naturalized in various parts of our island. I am, Sir, yours faithfully, W. T. Bree. Allesley Rectory, near Coventry, Dec. 22, 1840. XL VI. — On some new or rare Fish occurring on the Coast of Ireland. By Frederick M'Coy, Esq., M.G.S., &c. The following notices of new or rare fish found on the coast of Ireland, have been drawn up from specimens con-tained, for the most part, in the Museum of the Royal Dub-lin Society, and which have been, with few exceptions, taken during the last winter by Mr. William MacCalla, a very in-telligent and successful collector of marine productions. Be-sides the subjects of the present communication, he has en-riched the Society's collection with many rare and interest-ing species of Crustacea and naked Mollusca from different parts of the coast, which may, perhaps, form the subject of a
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