82 The Irish Naturalist, April, 



Claie, ill 1879,' and 1 saw it there last year. Without (loiil>t Linton's 

 Clare record refers to Corry's find. The same botanist definitely 

 recorded the plant from the Ben Bulbcn range (" t,ioo, 1,200 feet ") in 

 his notes made there in 1882, while preparing a report on thebotan\' 

 of these hills for the Royal Irish Academy, which notes were edited 

 after his death h\ A. G. jNIore and published by the Acadenn' in 1883.= 

 Barrington and Vowell. who took up and finished Corry's work on 

 Ben Bulbeii. state in their report '' that "there seems to be some 

 doubt about the identification" of Corry's specimens; Init INIr. 

 Barrington cannot now say what that dou1:)t was. vS. A. vStewart col- 

 lected on Ben Bulben a plant of which Backhouse reported, '• //. 

 Gibsflin appareiith' ; agrees with my specimens."^ And now \V. R. 

 Linton has definitely included Co. Sligo in the localities for this 

 species. 



Corry's plants are preserved in Queen's College, Belfast. In reply 

 to a queiy, Prof, (rregg Wilson kindh' reports : — " We have no speci- 

 mens of Corry's labelled //. Jiypocharoidcs or H. Gibsoni. We have other 

 Iliciacui named by him, but none from Sligo."' The Cambridge Herba- 

 rium, where Corry worked under Babington, and where plants of his 

 might be expected, was also tried; but Dr. C. E. INIoss reports : — 

 '• There are several of his (Corry's) Irish gatherings in the Herbarium, 

 but there is no Hieracium of his from Co. vSligo." I\Ir. Hanbury's 

 report as to his herbarium is also in the negative. I cannot find, 

 then, where Linton got his information, though there can be little 

 doubt that some information was forthcoming ; in the absence of 

 definite evidence against the plant's occurrence on Ben Bulben, and 

 in view of the confirmatory notes of Corry and of Stewart, I think 

 that it would not be justifiable to doubt the record of so able and 

 accurate a worker as the author of the '-Handbook of the British 

 Hieracia," and I think the record ought to stand, pending further 

 information. 



Hieracium cuprcpes, V.]. Ilanb.— " :Mourne]Mountains, Co Down." 

 (Linton, /.r., j). 56). This is a new reconl for the county. I have not 

 discovered its origin, but have little doubt that the record rests on 

 one or other of many Hawkweeds collected bv ^Ir. vStewart and 

 myself in 1889-90, and sent to England for identification. 



Hieracium ciliatum, Almq. — In the course of the fruitless hunt for 

 Ben Bulben specimens of //. hypocliaroidcs, the Hawkweeds collected 



' Xotes of a Botanical Ramble in the County of Clare, Ireland. Pyoc. 

 Belfast Nat. Hist, and Phil. Soc, 1879-80. p. 192. 

 -On the Ileiglits attained by Plants on Ben Bulben. /"m. R.I.A. (2), 



Science, iv., 73-77- 



" Report on the Mora of Ben Bulben, cS:c. Proc. R.I.A. (2), Science iv. 

 p. 508. 1885. 



* S. A. Stewart ?// ////. See also Corry's ])aper, loc. cit. 



