IQO The hish Naturalist. Jul5% 



conspicuous the corollas are found to be shortened by a well- 

 marked fold or wrinkle near the base. Whether this be a cause or 

 an effect of the forcible extrusion of the anthers through the narrow 

 mouth of the corolla, it is not eas}^ to decide. It may be of interest 

 to note here that a precisely similar folding or wrinkling of the 

 corolla, accompanied by a similar extrusion of the anthers, appears 

 in some of my herbarium specimens of E. Sttiarti. It was probably 

 the study of such an extreme form that induced the Rev. E. F. 

 Linton to suggest a hybrid origin for this plant, as he has done in 

 the issue of this Journal for August last, where, however, he makes 

 no reference to the folding of the corolla, while laying due stress 

 on the exsertion of the anthers. This folding does not appear to 

 be characteristic oiE. Stttarti. It is not mentioned in Dr. Macfarlane's 

 original description of the plant {7 runs. Edinb. Bot. Soc, xix., 58, 

 et seq.), and seems to be rather a morbid state than the result of 

 hybridization. The Howth plant just described would appear to 

 be an analogous morbid state of E. cmerea, and further analogies in 

 the relations of this plant and of E. Sttiarti to their respective types 

 are to be found in the dwarfing of the flowers and in their lighter 

 colour towards the base. 



*Lysimachia Nummularla, L. — In a marshy pasture by the Liffey 

 near St. Catherine's, 1901, and abundant in a swampy field below 

 Feltrim Hill, 1902. An outcast or escape from cultivation, 



Cuscuta Trifolll, Bab.— Abundant in August, 1902, on grassy banks 

 in the Rush sandhills, especially about the Coastguard Station* 

 spreading at frequent intervals for a quarter of a mile ; also some 

 large patches in fallows further inland— occurring on Atithyllis, 

 Ononis, Clovers and Thyme. Apparently a recent introduction to 

 this part of the county. 



*Lycium barbarum, L. — A single well-grown plant near the northern 

 extremity of the North Bull, amongst Artemisia Stelleriana and fully 

 a mile distant from the nearest house or garden, 1901-3. Perhaps 

 drifted from the opposite sandy shore at Sutton, where this southern 

 alien is well established over a length of 100 yards. 



*LycopcrsIcum esculentum, Miller. (Tomato.)— Several well-grown 

 flowering plants on the sandy shore of a creek near Cardy Rocks, 

 north of Balbriggan ; several others farther north on the open sandy 

 shore, and three more still farther north near Lowther Lodge, 1900- 

 There are no gardens in the vicinity of these stations. The plants 

 may have originated from drifting fruits thrown out from some 

 passing passenger steamer, or from some garden along the coast. 

 Fruits may often be seen floating in harbours. 



Utrlcularia neg-lecta, Lehm. — Abundant and luxuriant in Raheny 

 quarries along with U. vulgaris, both flowering freely, 1902. 



Plantag'o intermedia, Gilib.— By the margin of a shallow pool in 

 the Portrane sand hills near Corballis, 1902 : Dr. Scully and N. C. 



Scleranthus annuus, L-— Abundant in acorn field near Damastown, 

 Naul Hills, 1902. 



