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rather than a bog, in a grove of Cladium, Phragmites, and 

 /u7icus, we made two new records — Equisehim va?'iegatti7n^ 

 var. viajus, and Carcx Hornschtichiaiia, also Carex st?'icta, 

 which has been already recorded from Co. Limerick, 

 though not from this district. On high ground near among 

 scrub of Oak, Sloe, White Thorn, and Spindle-tree we found 

 fu7iipenis 7tana growing, and in the fields near the village of 

 Barrygone we saw the Opium Poppy, Papaver somniferum ; 

 the fields were quite gay with it. On the railway bank near 

 the Robertstown Bridge, I got the Bee Orchis, Ophrys 

 apifef'a ; there was quite a little colony of it. Centaiirea 

 Cyayius is another plant we found on the railway close to the 

 station at Fo3^nes. Of other new records from this district we 

 have Glyceria plicatairovn a stream near the quarry at Foynes, 

 Fu77ta7'ia pallidiflora from the garden at Ardanoir and fields 

 near Robertstown, O7'oba7iche mi7ior, of which Miss O'Brien 

 got one plant of this by the roadside east of the village ; Viola 

 ca7ii7ia, Polygala oxyptera^ Carex flava var. 77ii7t07', all from 

 the hills behind Ardanoir, LyciuTn barbaru77i, which grows by 

 the roadsides near cottages, and Alche77iilla vulgaris var. alpes- 

 iris, from Ardanoir. This was the only specimen oi Alche77iilla we 

 found in the district, where it is apparently a very rare plant. 

 Galiimi Molhigo, var. i7iS7ibricti77t, is another new record. Mr. 

 Bennett, to whom I sent this labelled G. Mollugo, remarks " a 

 curious form connecting Galiiwi elahwi, Thuill. (our common 

 form) and Galiu77i latifoliiwi^ Wall. = Galiu77i i7iS7ibricu7?i , 

 Gaud., having the leaves of the former with the inflorescence 

 of the latter broadl5^" Miss O'Brien sent me this in July 

 from the roadside near Ardagh, also some very fine specimens 

 of Lepidiu77i D7'aba in fruit from the railway near Elmhill, 

 Ardagh, where it is plentiful. 



Mr. O'Brien's finds comprise Carex ctiyta from Castle- 

 connell bog, a rare plant and chiefly found in the North 

 according to Irish Topographical Bota7iy, and Polyg07iu77i 

 CoTivohmlus var. stibalatum, w^hich he says seems to be the 

 common form about Limerick. Among a collection of plants 

 which he gave me from the docks and Carey's Road quarry are 

 some gathered this j^ear that have not been noticed before. 

 Among those from the docks are Sola7iu7n 7iigru7}i, which is no 

 more than a casual in most places where it occurs j Malva 



