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NOTES. 



BOTANY. 



Scapania intermedia Hus. in Ireland. 



In the Journal of Botany for August, Rev. H. W. I^ett records this plant 

 from sandstone rocks over Lough Muskry, in the Galtees, and mentions 

 specimens collected in Colin Glen, Co. Antrim, by Rev. C. H. Waddell. 



New Plants for West Mayo. 



When on the way to Clare Island last July, an evening was spent at 

 Westport. In the demesne Chelidoniiim majus, Stellaria Holostea, A^pfrula 

 odorata, Solamim Dulcamara, and B^-omus as per were noticed, and by the 

 river a few good plants of Barbarea arcuaia, Reichb. At the quay were 

 Veronica hsderff-folia, and a large luxuriant colony of Lepidium Draba, 

 which is well established there. In the town Festuca Myuros grew on 

 walls. Campanula rapunculoides occurred in an old sloping pasture at 

 Rossbeg, which had apparently never been broken up. On the drive 

 from Westport through Ivouisburgh, Iris fceitdissima was noticed occa- 

 sionally in wild ground near cultivation ; and at Kilsallagh Sempervivum 

 tectortcm. A visit was paid to Bartraw, a curious gravel beach running 

 from the mainland to a small island a mile distant. Here Cakile maritima 

 and Polygonum RaiiwievQ gathered. Equisetuvi maximum grew at Leckanny 

 and elsewhere. None of these fifteen plants are on record for W. Mayo. 



R. Ivi^OYD Praeger. 

 Dublin. 



Pinguicula grandiflora in Clare. 



Last June, among a small parcel of plants from Lisdoonvarna sent me 

 for naming by Professor Ambrose Birmingham, M.D., there was a 

 blossom which was at once recognisable as that oi Pinguicula grandifl.07a. 

 On writing to Prof. Birmingham, he kindly had further specimens 

 collected — some of which are now being grown at Glasnevin — and called 

 with me and described the plant and its habitat. It grows plentifully 

 on a wet low cliff overlooking a stream, amid fields and waste land, a few 

 hundred yards from the pumphouse at Lisdoonvarna. Before accept- 

 ing such an extension of range for this most interesting plant, hitherto 

 known only from Cork and Kerry, botanists will naturally wish to know 

 more concerning the Lisdoonvarna station, especially in view of the fact 

 that the plant has been successfully introduced in Co. Wexford, where 

 it has multiplied, and now forms a flourishing colony which has all the 

 appearance of being native. Further information than that given above 

 I cannot at present supply, but it is well to put the find on record at 

 once ; possibly some botanist visiting Clare next May or June may inves- 

 tigate the matter for us. 



R. Li^oYD Prae;ger. 



Dublin. 



