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Plants of Co. Antrim. 



In the October number of the Irish Naturalist I have read a very in- 

 teresting article on Glenariff. I desire to make a few observations. This 

 district is not an unknown one to me, as I have known it and this 

 neighbourhood and its plants since 1867. I cannot understand how the 

 authors of the Flora of N.E. Ireland considered the Yew extinct in the glen 

 in 1888. I have known it to be in the place where Templeton observed 

 it, on the rocks on the north side, as long as I have known this part of 

 the country, and all the plants which Dean D'Arcy observed. Sedum 

 rupestre was planted by Miss Hassard many years ago ; it was only the 

 other day I was pointing it out to her brother, and said it would soon be 

 considered native. 



Samuel Arthur Brenan. 

 Cushendun. 



Irish Rubi. 



In August I spent a few days in Co. Wicklow and Co. Kerry, but I had 

 little opportunity of botanising. At Killarney, near Ross Island, I 

 gathered Rubus plicatus, a new county record ; and about Muckross 

 Rubus mutabilis, Genev., was seen, as also in another locality near 

 Killarney. This is the second time the plant is recorded for Ireland, being 

 seen this year in Co. Down by Rev. W. M. Rogers, and it is an addition to 

 the flora of Co. Kerry. Rubus pulcherrimus, Newtn., was also gathered near 

 Killarney, a new county record ; and R. pj/ramidalis, Kalt., occurred as a 

 very hairy plant in Glendalough, Co. Wicklow, with a form of R. 

 leucostachys, and another form of that plant grew at Killarney. R. Schlech- 

 tendalii, Weike, was frequent in Glendalough, Co. Wicklow. At Glen- 

 dalough also occurred a plant which the Rev. W. Moyle Rogers (who has 

 named all the above-mentioned Rubi) says is apparently R. podophyllus, 

 but more complete specimens are required in order to make the identity 

 certain; and the same may be said of another bramble, which is 

 apparently R. micans, Gren. & Godr., the latter not yet recorded for 

 Wicklow, and the former not known as Irish. Another distinct looking 

 bramble from Muckross, Killarney, Rev. W. M. Rogers refers to R. 

 hemistemon, P. J. Muell., but the leaves are harsher than usual and the 

 outer stamens abnormally long. New to Kerry. At Killarney also grew 

 a plant which is probably shade-grown R. pyramidalis. At Dalkey I got a 

 plant which Mr. Rogers says "very strongly recalls R. Questierii, L,efv. & 

 Muell., especially in panicle; but for that Genevier gives ■ tige glarescente 

 verdatre,' and though I have a Kent form of it with stem considerably 

 hairy, that is still unlike this. So I think this Dublin plant must stand 

 over for the present." R. Questerii is not recorded for Ireland. 



G. CivARiDGE Druce. 

 Oxford. 



