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ej^es as naturalists, and as naturalists seeking to gather the 

 meaning of what we have seen, we have traversed Glencullen 

 till we have reached the end of the valley, and with it the end 

 of our ramble. The stars are beginning to twinkle overhead 

 and a bluish mist to enwrap the tree-tops of the glen. Soon 

 a turn of the path will hide from us the late scene of our 

 inquiries ; but will not, I trust, so easily efface the recollection 

 of the hours therein spent, and the knowledge we shall have 

 derived from them. 



THE PI.ANTS OF WESTMHATH. 



BY H. C. I^KVINGE, D.L. 



During the past summer and autumn, the following plants 



were gathered by me in the Count}" Westmeath, additional to 



those recorded in the May and June numbers of the Irish 



Naturalist for 1894, thus bringing up the total number of 



species for the county to 572, and the total additions to the 



Cybele Hibernica, Dist. VII., to 77. The R^ibi were submitted 



to the Revds. E. F. I^inton and W. Moyle Rogers, who have 



kindly examined and named them : — 



Ranunculus circinatus, Sibth (vii.) — Brittas Lake, Knock Driii. 

 Rubus rhamnifolius, Aiict. Aiigl. (vii.) — Knock Drin woods. 



R. Incurvatus, Bab. (vii.)— Knock Drin. A striking and handsome 

 Briar with fine panicles of bright pink flowers and dark-green foUage, 

 not previonsly recorded from Ireland, but by no means uncommon in the 

 woods at Knock Drin. 



R. crythrinus, Genev. (vii.) — Roadside hedge, near the '' Longford 

 gate," Knock Drin. 



R, nrsucronatus, Blox. (vii.) — Deer Park fence. Knock Drin. 



R. corylifolius, Sm. (=sublustris, Lees.) (vii.)— Knock Drin 

 woods. 



R. Balfourianus, Blox.? (vii.) — Near "the vSupply " Bridge near 

 Mullingar. Mr. K. F. Linton remarks that this is certainly Corylifolian 

 or Caesian, and Mr. M. Rogers suggests it may be a form oi Ba/foitriantis, 

 Blox., which is a very variable plant. 



Lactuca muralis, Fresen. (vii.) — Ballynegall roadside wall, between 

 Portnashangan Church and School-house, also in the Ballynegall 

 Demesne ; appears to be truly indigenous. 



Tragopogon prate n sis, L. (vii.)— Killua Demesne, near Clonmel- 

 lon. 



*OrnlthogaIum umbellatum, L. (vii.)— Rockview, near Delvin, 

 thoroughly established in ditch banks and meadows. 



tBromus commutatus, Schrad. (vii.) (fide Mr. A. Bennett). — 

 Meadows at Knock Drin. 



Chara denudata, Braun. ( = C. dissoluta, Leonh.) — Brittas Lake 

 Knock Drin. Not previously found in the British Islands — vide descrip- 

 tion bv Messrs. H. and J. Groves, Irish Naltrralisi^ ^smwsiYy, 1S95, p. ii. 



