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Cram be maritima, L.— A few plants of this species have been 

 flourishing for several years past on the river-bank between Tivoli and 

 Dunkettle. 



Viola canina, I,. — In May, 1893, I found this plant sparingly in 

 Teniplemichael Glen. This is its second station in the county. 



Silene g^allica, L. — In a cornfield near Whitegate in September last. 

 This was the t3-pical large-flowered form. 



Hypericum hircinum, L. — This certainly deserves a place among 

 our naturalized exotics as, in several of the localities in which it occurs 

 it is thoroughly established. At Glanmire and Eastferry it is abundant 

 and spreading fjom walls to roadsides, rocks, and banks. 



H. calycinum, L. — One of the finest floral sights to be seen in the 

 county is at Eastferry early in July, when the roadsides and broad banks 

 of the Ballinacurra river are covered for a mile or more with profusion 

 of this handsome plant in bloom. It is thoroughly naturalised in many 

 localities. 



Geranium pratense, L. — Abundant on a rather mountainous road 

 leading from Clonakilty to Rathbarry, and in fields in the same vicinity, 

 August, 18S9 and 1890. To find this showy plant in plenty in the South 

 of Ireland was quite an event in my botanical experience, but whether it 

 is native or naturalised I cannot now decide, as, though I could not find 

 traces of its former cultivation, it is hard to understand how so con- 

 spicuous a plant, if it were native, should have escaped the notice of the 

 older botanists. 



lYIedicago maculata, Sibth. — Still at Little Island, where it was 

 discovered for the first time in Ireland, in 1840, by D. Murray. Plentiful 

 in several places on the banks of the river near Eastferry. In the latter 

 locality this plant is regarded by some of the natives as the " true 

 shamrock," the dark spots on its leaves being said to have originated 

 when St. Patrick touched them with his fingers while illustrating the 

 doctrine of the Holy Trinity. 



Lepig^onum rubrum, Fries. — In September, 1894, I found this 

 plant, hitherto recorded onl}^ from near Kilcoleman, in some plenty on 

 waste ground near the Marina, Cork, where it was probably introduced. 



Sedum album, L. — In addition to its other stations this species is 

 abundant and well established on walls and the railway embankment 

 between Cork and Glanmire. I also found it on a wall at Glengariffe, in 

 August, 1894. 



Saxifraga umbrosa, L. — The Rev. T. Allin omits this species, 

 possibly through an oversight, from his eastern division of the county, 

 but it still exists, though not plentifully, on rocks at Inniscarra, where it 

 was first found by Drummond. 



Galium erectum, Huds.— This interesting species of "Germanic " 

 type, recorded by Rev. T. x\llin from near Midleton, is abundant also in 

 the extensive pastures at Trabolgan and Roche's Point near the mouth 

 of Cork Harbour. This plant, so often sown with grass seeds, can 

 scarcely be regarded with certainty as a native of Ireland. 



Dipsacus sylvestris, L. — "One plant at Berehaven." Writing in 

 18S3, Allin thus records this species for his western division. Visiting 

 Berehaven in 1894, I also found one plant only. But in 1890 I found it 

 plentiful in the same division at about half-way between Clonakilty and 

 the Island. 



Carduus nutans, L. — This rare and handsome plant was recorded 

 from Little Island by Drummond in the beginning of the present 

 century, but in Allin's flora it is stated that it had not been seen since 

 1S53, and was probably extinct, the other recorded locality (Berehaven) 

 being looked on as an error. I have, therefore, much satisfaction in 

 giving it once again a place on our county list, having rediscovered it at 



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