April. 1909= The Irish Natural ht. 81 



ON SOME IRIvSH HAWKWEED AND POXDWEED 



RECORDS. 



BY R. TJ.OYD PRARGER. 



It may be of interest to report the results of iiiquir}' into 

 the soiirce of one or two Irish records recenth' published. 



HIeracium hibernicum, 1". J. Hanb. — " ^Muckanaght, Maumeen, 

 Galwa}' " (W. R. Linton : An Account of the British Hieracia, 1905, 

 p. 33\ This and the following record did not come under my notice 

 till after Mr. Linton's lamented death. In the present case the 

 author has transferred these well-known records of II. C. Hart's 

 from //. argentcuvi to the above allied species. H. ar^enteitm was first 

 recorded from Muckanaght, in the Twelve Bens, and Maumeen, on 

 the Maani Turk ^Mountains, h\ Y\^\-\.\\\\\\q [ournal of FJotauy, yifiw., 

 p. 48, 1886, on the authority of James Backhouse, the specimens 

 having been collected by him in his survey- of the Mayo and Gal way 

 mountains four years earlier. Along with them, and under the same 

 name, he recorded the INIoynalt (Co. Donegal) and Broughnamaddy 

 (Co. Down) plants which subsequently formed the type specimens for 

 Hanbury's H. hiheniicuw. described in /ounial of Bolaiiy, xxx., p. 25S, 

 1892. //. argcutcum has not, so far as I know, been collected in Gal way 

 since, but the record has not been questioned. On what grounds, then, 

 have these stations been transferred to H. Jiibeniicnm i Mr. E. F. 

 Linton, appealed to, can throw no light on the question. He says 

 that in his brother's notes the records so appear without comment ; 

 and while he is sure the change must have been based on specimens 

 examined, no specimens are forthcoming. INIr. Ilanbiiry has assisted 

 by going through liis set of H. hibcniicuiii. without result. Hart's 

 original specimens are in the National Herbarium. Tliey lack the 

 leafy stem of Iiihcynicmn, and IMr. K. V . Linton, who has kindly 

 examined them, pronounces them rightly named argoiteum. Hart 

 usually collected very sparingly, and the fact that the two sheets in 

 the National Herbarium bearMvS. notes b\' Backhouse and Babington 

 strengthens the view that the six specimens thereon preserved repre- 

 sent the whole of Hart's collecting. 



It is ilifliciilt in these circumstances either to accept or to reject 

 the record, but in view of the fact that the original specimens belong 

 to //. argenteum, and that no other specimens are known to exist, one 

 feels tempted to suggest— and I put forward the suggestion with all 

 deference — that the insertion of these Galway stations under H. 

 hibcnn'cin/i was a slip of the pen. 



HIeracium hypochaeroides, Gibs.— '• Clare ; Sligo""(W. R. Linton. 

 /. c, p. 28). T. H. Corry was the discoverer of this species in Ireland. 

 He gathered it on the cliffs of the Ragle Rock on .Slieve Carran, Co, 



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