192^. Stelfox. — Botanical Notes from S.E. Wexford. loi 



Below Barnawheel I saw Trifolium striatum ; three 

 plants on the bank between the cultivated lands and the 

 sandhills. Erodiuni maritimum, E. moschatum, Trigonella 

 ornithopodioides and Calystegia Soldanella were common near 

 the last locality. 



North of Carnsore Point the Samphire is wonderfully 

 luxuriant along the beach, but I saw no other plant worth 

 mentioning. Turning inland by the road north of Nether- 

 town — ^towards Castletown — I had a great piece of luck. In 

 the north bank of the road, just before it joined the main 

 road dowoa the " peninsula," I found Asplenium lanceolatum 

 in some quantity but very shrivelled by the drought. .Only 

 the fact that a few years ago Mr. R. A. Phillips gave me a 

 plant of this fern, from his Co. Carlow station, prevented 

 my passing it by. The bank upon which it grew was built 

 up of granite boulders and sandy soil and faced due south. 

 Possibly I may have overlooked it previously, as I have 

 a recollection of seeing what I took to be A. Adiantum- 

 nigrum nearer to Nethertown, or between that place and 

 Carnsore Point along the coast. Until Mr. PhilHps's 

 discovery of it in Co. Carlow it was known as Irish only 

 from Cork and Kerry ; but as it is well known in south- 

 western England its occurrence in Wexford is not surprising. 

 In the marsh south of Ring near Lady's Island Lake I had 

 hoped to find some interesting plants but w^as disappointed. 

 The only thing of interest here w^as a curious form of the 

 sedge Car ex vulgaris simulating the rare C. trinervis in habit, 

 having very long bracts and stout agglomerated female 

 spikelets. It grew with normal C. vulgaris and what I 

 took to be var. j micella ; but its dark glumes and flat 

 leaves at once separate it from a plant of C. trinervis which 

 I owe to the kindness of Mr. C. E. Salmon. In Lady's 

 Island Lake I saw Ruppia rostellata, Ranunculus sp., and 

 a curious little Chara which grew in a few inches of water 

 and looked just like little submerged clumps of Lyco podium 

 selago. Miss Knowles ran it down for me as Chara aspera 

 var. subinernmis and Canon Bullock-Webster has confirmed 

 her diagnosis. High and dry along the shore were patches 

 of Littorella lacustris, looking very quaint with the long 

 anthers fluttering in the breeze. 



Along the seaward end of the lake I noticed Silver- 



