1 88 The It ish Naturalist, September, 



PHANEROGAMS AND VASCULAR CRYPTOGAMS. 



BY R. LIvOYD PRAEGER. 



I. — M1SCE1.1.ANEOUS Notes. 

 Phanerogamic botany was poorly represented at theRosapenna 

 Conference ; but little work was done, and the notes I 

 have to draw on are almost entireh' ni}^ own, made in the in- 

 tervals of conducting. Nevertheless five additions to the 

 well-worked flora of West Donegal are recorded below, and 

 second stations for several plants previousl}' reported from 

 only one locality. 



Though possessing a fairly extensive flora, the Rosapenna 

 district is not one of the most interesting in Donegal, this 

 being largely the result of the absence in the immediate 

 vicinity of any of the higher mountain-groups. Its plants, like 

 those of the rest of Donegal, are v/ell known, being fully de- 

 tailed in H. C. Hart's ^' Flora of Donegal" (1898). On the 

 Rosguill peninsula, from Rosapenna northwards, the species 



found during our excursions included — 



Arahis hirsuta. Orobanche rubra. 



Spergularia rupestris. Euphorbia portlandica. 



TrifoHum medium. Juniperus nana. 



Sedum Rhodiola. Habenaria conopsea. 



Rryngium maritinium. Orchis pyramidalis. 



Crithmum niaritimum. Phleum arenariuni. 



Anthemis nobilis. Koeleria cristala. 



Statice occidentalis. Ophioglossum vulgatum, 



all noted from this neighbourhood in the " Flora." One 

 or two plants not previously recorded were also ob- 

 tained : — Gentiana A?}iarelta, abundant on sandhills at Rosa- 

 penna, in Hart's " Flora" noted from onl}' one Donegal 

 station, namely, sands between Bundoran and Ballyshannon ; 

 and the curious var. littoralis Parnell of Catabiosa aqiiatica, 

 on wet sands at Tranarossan, not previously found in the 

 county. In Rosapenna I^ough, also, grew Chara polyacantha 

 and C hispida, not included in the " Flora of Donegal,'' 

 though the latter has been subsequently recorded by Hart 

 from a station in West Donegal.^ 



About Lough Salt Anthemis nobilis, List era cordata , and 

 Lastrea Oreopteris were seen, and in Lough Reelan adjoining 

 Nttella opaea, which had only one previous West Donegal 

 station. 



^ Hart, /<?«/«. Boi. xxxvii., p 159, 1899. 



