22 2 The Irish Nahiralist October, 



NOTES. 



BOTANY. 

 Sisyrinchium angustifolium in Donegal. 



From j\Ir. A. R. Sanderson of Tliornbury, Bradford, I have received two 

 photographs oi Sisyrinchium augustifolinui, taken in silii near Killybegs, in 

 S.W. DonegaL Regarding the finding of the plant Mr. Sanderson 

 writes : — 



"Two years ago a part}- of botanists, consisting of Mr. Cheetham, Mr. 

 Bateson, and myself, while spending a holiday at Killybegs, Co. Donegal, 

 found, amongst other things, Sisyrinchium angustifoliuDi. Mr. Cheetham 

 and myself again spent a week at Killybegs at the beginning of August 

 last, and we saw S. angustifoliui>i\.n a field at Port Roshin (near Killybegs), 

 and in quantity in several meadows on the shores of Fintrough Ba3\'" 



This constitutes a very interesting extension of range for this rare 

 plant and further strengthens its claim to be considered native. The 

 plant is now known to occur in West Cork, Kerr}-, Clare, S E. Galwa}', 

 Sligo, Fermanagh, and West Donegal. 



R. Li.. Praeger. 



Dublin. 



Scrophularia umbrosa in Limerick. 



The record of Isaac Cai roll's Irish specimen in Herb, Mus. Brit., pub- 

 lished by Prj'or in this Journal for 1S77 p. 238, seems to have been over- 

 looked by the compilers of Cybele Hibeinica and Irish Topographical Botany. 

 The locality, which Pryor does not give, is ''near Limerick, Aug., 1848"; 

 this considerably extends its range, which is '' confined, as at present 

 known, to a few miles of the course of the Lififey " (Cyb. Hibern. 234). 



James Bkitten. 

 British Museum. 



The interesting record to which Mr. Britten draws attention forms part 

 of one of a series of foot-notes appended to a paper by Mr R. A. Pryor, 

 *• On Bobart's green Scrophularia " — a non-Irish form of S. nodosa for which 

 the writer proposed the varietal name Bobartii. The record reads " It is 

 worth mentioning that there is an Irish specimen of S. wnbrosa, labelled 

 however aquatica. in the Irish herbarium of Mr. I. Carroll, now incorpor- 

 ated with the British Museum collection. The previous records appear 

 to have been uutrustworth}'. Cf. Cyb. Hib., p. 209." Considering how 

 ingeniously this record is tucked away, it is little wonder that Mr. 

 Colgan. in publishing his discovery on the Liffey (/. N.. v., 182) over- 

 looked it, and treated the plant as new to Ireland, and that subseqnent 

 writers followed suit. It remains for our southern botanists to refind the 

 plant " near Limerick," and determine its range there. I may add that 

 a few days ago I saw S. umbrosa in abundance at Killadoon near Celbridge, 

 some miles higher up the Lififey than previously recorded; probably it 

 occurs along the greater part of the lowland course of that river. 



R. Li^oYD Praeger. 

 Dublin. 



