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Spiranthes Romanzoffiana, Cham. — XII. Derry— I saw nearer 

 40 plants when I visited the Kilrea station in 1894, and the greater 

 part of the field in which it grew had been ploughed up a few months 

 before 



Orchis Iatifolia, L.— Can this be any longer excluded from the Irish 

 list ? H. C. Levinge, E. S. Marshall, and others have deliberately 

 recorded the segregate species Referring to its exclusion from 

 Cybele, Mr. Marshall writes under date 24; 11 : 98, "I have gathered 

 Orchis Iatifolia (seg.) in Co. Wexford, and have marked it as observed 

 in District VIII. of Cybele It is very unlikely to be rare, in reality." 



Potamogeton plantaglneus, Ducr.—XII. Why is this erroneous 

 record resurrected ? Stewart and Corry rightly placed it in their 

 "excluded" list. Another record of Moore's which is repeated* 

 "Common in ditches on the bogs among the Dublin mountains" 

 appears equally unworthy of a place. The plant is lowland, with 

 calcicole proclivities. There can be little doubt that both records 

 refer to poly go >iif alius forms. 



P. flabellatus, Bab.— VII. King's -Grand Canal, a mile south of 

 Fdenderry (I.N., vi., 98). Omitted in Cybele. 



Ruppla spiralis, Hartin.— XII. Is much commoner in this district 

 than R. rostdlata — see Flor. N.E.I . and Suppl. The editors need not 

 have mistrusted these records. 



Scirpus rufus, Schrad — XII. All the Derry and Antrim stations 

 are quoted, but only one of the Down localities. 



Cladlum IYIarlscus, R.Br. — XII. Down — The record of lake near 

 Strangford {I.N., vi., 219), the only station in east Ireland where 

 the plant grows abundantly, is omitted. 



Carex filiform Is, L. — XII. Should not be bracketed — see I.N., vi., 

 219, where the plant is recorded as growing abundantly in a lake 

 near Strangford, Co. Down. 



Calamagrostis Epigeios, Roth. — XII. Derry— refound at For- 

 moyle Hill by Miss Knowles and myself, growing very sparingly, in 



1895- 

 Festuca IVIyuros, L. - III. Only one station (Ferrybank) given in 



Cybele. I have it from a large number of stations in Kilkenny and 



Carlow, and from two in Queen's County. 

 Osmunda regal is, L. — V. Louth — the earliest publication of the 



well-known Castlebellingham station appears to be I.N., iv., 294 



(1895), but the fine tufts of the Royal Fern which stud the bog have 

 . been familiar to botanical travellers on the G. X. Railway for many 



years. 

 Equlsetum variegatum, Schleich. var. majus, Syme. — VI. The 



Aran record {I.N. iv.. 252) is omitted. 



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