-^32 The Irish Naturatisi. 



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SOME WAIFS AND STRAYS OF THE CORK FLORA. 



BY R. A. PHII.I.IPS. 



In the following paper I have brought together a few notes 

 selected from observations made during several years past on 

 some of the more interesting plants found growing in the 

 County Cork. M}^ chief object in so doing has been to record 

 the rediscovery, and verify the existence, of several species, 

 some of which were long ago discovered by the earlier Cork 

 botanists and recorded in Dr. Power's flora,' but, which having 

 become extinct or lost sight of for a time in their original 

 stations, were excluded from the later floras.^ 



Such are Carduus nutans, and Hordawt pratensc, noted by 

 Rev. T. Allin as ** probably extinct ;" Rumex pulcher, certainly 

 extinct in its former station ; and Hyperictun hircimun and 

 Hoi'deum muriiium, hitherto admitted only as casuals, but still 

 flourishing in several districts. 



I have also mentioned additional localities for, or extended 

 to a new district, a few of our rarer plants which have pre- 

 viously been recorded from one or two stations only, and have 

 added remarks on one or two species whose continued existence 

 might be considered precarious. 



Papaver hytoridum, L. — Recorded by Dr. Power from Little Island, 

 very sparingly, in 1841 ; still continues to hold its ground in this station, 

 though it has not apparently increased, as in last August I found it at the 

 same place in small quantit}' amid abundance of its near relations, P. 

 Argenione and P. dtibmm. 



Arabis hirsuta, R. Br. — The only habitat of this species near Cork 

 city was, I regret to say, recently destroyed, the old wall at Vosterberg, 

 on which it was first found by the late Mr. T. Wright, having been taken 

 down and rebuilt early this year. 



Armoracia rusticana, Rupp. — This is now one of the most abun- 

 dant and conspicuous plants on a stretch of waste ground extending for 

 about two miles between Tivoli and Glanmire. 



Dlplotaxls muralis, DC. — Recorded by Mr. Alexander as occurring 

 near the Lower Glanmire Road previous to 1833, but disallowed by the 

 later botanists, who considered it an error. During the past summer I 

 have found it sparingly in one or two places on the railway embankment 

 in the same locality. 



Lepldlum latffollum, L. — Still plentiful at Cork Beg, where it has 

 held its own since Dr. Smith recorded it 125 years ago, and is now 

 apparently spreading along the causeway which joins that island with 

 the mainland. It is also still to be had at Rev. T. Allin's station near 

 Kinsale. 



1 " Fauna and Flora of Co. Cork." 1845. 



2 " Cybele Hibernica," 1866; and " Flowering Plants and Ferns of Co. 

 Cork," by Rev. T. Allin, 1883. 



