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NOTES. 



BOTANY. 

 Hypopithys multiflora in Co, Leitrim. 



In October last my wife found several fruiting specimens of this rare 

 plant growing in chinks of limestone rock under hazel scrub at the east 

 end of Lough Gill, on the steep southern side of the knoll near Sriff 

 Cottage, marked 328 on the one-inch Ordnance map. The plant is new 

 to Leitrim, but has been thrice found at the western end of Lough Gill, 

 in Co. Sligo : — ^at Hazlewood in 1871 (Miss Wynne) ; one plant at Doonee 

 Road, 1896 (N. Colgan) ; and one plant at the latter station in 1904, 

 found by myself during the Sligo Field Club Conference. 



R. Lloyd Praeger. 



Dublin. 



Pterogonium s^racile Swartz in Co. Down. 



Canon Lett and I found this moss growing sparingly on rocks and 

 tree bases in two places on the mountain above Rostrevor not far from 

 the " Big Stone" last July. The species is rare in the North of Ireland 

 and is a welcome addition to the county flora. 



C. H. Waddell. 



Grey Abbey, Co. Down. 



Naias flexilis in Donegal. 



Canon Bullocl:- Webster's modesty has buried a very important record 

 of one of our most interesting flowering plants among the notes on 

 Donegal Characeae which he contributes to the present number, and I 

 draw attention to it here for fear that the record may be overlooked. 

 First known in the British Islands from Cregduff Lough near Round- 

 stone, Connemara, Naias flexilis was subsequently found at Killarney 

 by A. G. More, and is now recorded from that third stronghold of our 

 western flora, Donegal. In Great Britain it is known only from Skye 

 and Perthshire, and in Continental Europe has a sparse northern dis- 

 tribution. Canon Bullock- Webster's discovery furnishes the most in- 

 teresting addition to the Donegal flora which has been made for many 

 years. 



R. Lloyd Praeger. 



Dublin. 



Filago minima at Howth. 



I found Filago minima last July at Shielmartin Hill, Howth. The 

 plant is very rare in Co. Dublin as, so far as I can trace, it does not 

 appear to have been previously recorded as occurring in the Howth 

 district. 



p. B. Bradshaw, 



Dublin. 



