290 The Irish Natufalist. November, 



do not know this ; you should compare and work this up ; probably- 

 confined to Britain." And so far as I can at present find, Babington's 

 plant is unknown on the Continent. . . . 

 A> majiis is well distinguished. 

 A minus has the small heads and exsertal flowers. 

 A. iniermediwn has the heads in size between majus and minus (but 



very variable), and stalked— stdWs often very long. 

 A. Newbouldii has the heads agglomerated (and almost sessile) at the 

 apex of the principal stetns, at times the side branches show 

 more or less stalked heads." 

 The only Irish records I know for A. Newbouldii are that of R. A. 



Phillips from Macroom in Irish Top. Bot., and an unpublished one of my 



own from Co. Dublin. Further information concerning this plant in 



Ireland is certainly desirable. 



Cnicus pratensis, ly. — The young flowering shoots often attacked by 

 a fungus which causes them to end in a hard round scaly bud like 

 that of an Inula, which eventually bursts and discharges a quantity 

 of brown spores. 



[Carduus nutans, L.— "On Clare Island; Hon. Miss B. Lawless" 

 {Cyb. Hib., ed. ii.) This is one of the very few previous plant-records 

 from the island. Miss Lawless informs me that she gathered plants 

 on Clare Island during her brief visit there at the request of A. G. 

 More, and sent the specimens to him. Reference to Mr. More's 

 annotated copy of Cybele, ed. i., in the Royal Irish Academy, shows 

 the above entry in his own hand- writing, so it may be taken that he 

 named the specimen. Miss Lawless cannot say where she gathered 

 the plant. We watched for it continually, but did not find it.] 



Hieraclum hypochoeroidcs, Gibs., var. saxorum, F.J.H. — On the 

 Croaghmore cliffs at about i,too feet. A rare Hawkweed, endemic in 

 the British Isles. In Ireland known only from Clare and Cork 

 hitherto, the Cork plant being also var. saxorum, which would appear 

 to be the calcifuge variety of a calcicole species. To judge from 

 the wide separation of the stations of this Hawkweed, better known 

 as H. Gibsoni (Yorkshire, Cork, Mayo, Clare), it would appear to be an 

 instance of relict, not initial, endemism (see Drude : Handbuch der 

 Pflanzengeographie,-^. 125, 1890; and ShuU : Geographic Distribution 

 of Isoetes sacchai-ata, Bot. Gazette, xxxvi., 195, 1903. 



H. angrlicum, Fr. — Abundant on a sea-cliff east of the Light-house. 



Leontodon autumnalls, L. var. simplex Duby. — Mr, Bennett so 

 names a peculiar very small glabrous dandelion, with almost entire 

 leaves and unbranched flower-stems, found among sea-rocks in 

 several places, and already in full flower in early July. 



Anag-allls tenella, L — Perhaps the commonest plant on the island, 

 growing everywhere, from the driest pasture to the wettest marsh. 



Euphrasia officinalis, L— Forms which I took to be E. brevlplla, 

 Burn, and Grem., and E. grracllls, Fr., were common— an observation 

 confirmed by Mr. Townsend, who finds three gatherings of each of 

 these among the specimens submitted to him. E. occldentalis 



