2IO The Irish Naturalist. October, 



Polygala vulgaris, L. — A pretty form, with small dark blue flowers, 



occurs by the railway at Ardrahan, 15 

 Silene Cucubalus, Wib., van hirsuta (Gray).— Castle Taylor, 15. 

 Cerastium tctranduin, Curtis./^r/A'a caespitosa.— A deusely-tufted 

 dwarf form occurred on walls in Gahvay town, 16. Very luxuriant 

 at Murrough and Muckinish, 9 ; also on sandhills south of Wicklow, 

 20. 

 C. arvense, L., van Andrewsli, Syme.— Slopes of Cappanawalla,9 ; 



a stiff, glabrous plant. 

 Arenaria vcrna, L.— Local at Black Head and near Cregg, 9. 

 A. tcnuifolia, L.— Railway near Castlegrove, 17; abundant near Ard- 

 rahan, 15 ; near Ballindine, *26. An alien species rapidly extending 

 its area along the permanent way of the railway systems like Linaria 

 viitior and Sejjccio sqnalidus in England. 

 Sagina maritima, Don, van debilis (Jord.)— Near Maghera, 20. 

 lYIontia fontana, L. (=il/. la77iprosperma, Cham.)— Rare near Rahelly 



House, 28. 

 Hypericum quadrangulum, L. {ff.duhmw, Leers).— Cahir valley, 9. 

 Rhamnus catharticus, L. . var. prostrata. — Leaves small, four- 

 fifths by three-fifths of an inch, plant small, 6-12 in., quite prostrate, 

 growing on the limestone rocks between Gort and Tirneevin, 15. 

 In the Cyb. Hib.^ p. 79, a prostrate form oi R. Frangida is said to grow 

 outside Garryland Wood, near Gort, but I did not notice it. 

 Potentilla procumbens, Sibth.— Derrynane, i ; near Wicklow, 20. 

 P. fruticosa, L.— The Irish plant (/ hibernica)^\\\Q\\ grows in the fur- 

 loughs near Ballyvaughan, has narrower leaf-divisions than the 

 Teesdale plant. 

 AlGhcmllla vuIgariSj L., van minor, Huds. {A. fdicatilis, Buser). — 

 Ballyvaughan, 9. 



Var. glabra, DC— Ben Bulben, 28. 

 Var. pratcnsis (Schmidt).— Ballyvaughan, 9. 

 * Agrimonia odorata, I\Iill. — Near Ardrahan, 15. 

 Rosaspinosissima,L.,y^r///a rosea. — Petals often dark rose-coloured, 



near Ballyvaughan, 9 ; pale-pink on the Wicklow coast, 20. 

 Pyrus Aria, Ehrh. — By the railway (but not planted) between 



Athenry and Galway, 15. 

 Carum Carvi, L. — Alien by the river at Galway, 16. 

 Galium boreale, L — Very small plants at Newtown, Garryland, 15. 

 Sherardia arvensis, L. — Unmistakably native at Black Head, 9. 

 flnula Helenium, L.— Newtown, Galway, etc., 15. 

 •j-Wlatricaria suaveolens, Buch.- Lough Rea, 15; Ballandine, *26. 

 fPetasites fragrans, Presl.— Near Sligo, 28. 

 Cirsium arvense. Scop.— Ascends to 1,600 feet in Sligo. 

 Lapsana communis, L.— Very glandular at Muckinish, 9. 

 Crepls taraxacifolia, Thuill.— Abundant about Ballyvaughan, 9; 



near Newtown, 15. 

 C. vlrens, L , *var. agrcstts, W. and K.— Ardrahan, 15. 

 C. biennis, L.— Ballyvaughan, 9. 



