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yond doubt. I interviewed a man who was engaged as overseer at the con- 

 struction of the embankment referred to, and I found my suspicion of this 

 grass being introduced confirmed. From him I learned the rather inte- 

 resting information that it had been sown there by the Railway Company. 

 When one half of the work had been completed, it occurred to some of the 

 engineering staff that the planting of a grass might help to protect the 

 clay banks from the action of the sea. As a result, seeds of a suitable 

 grass were procured. My informant did not know the species (no doubt 

 the Elymtts'), and two workmen were detailed to plant on the banks and 

 among the crevices of the granite embankment what is now a flourishing 

 colony of about one hundred yards. I find, on referring to a hand-book 

 on grasses, that this is the identical species used to protect the coasts of 

 Holland. I have not seen the Skerries station, but the claims of Elymus 

 arenarins as native in Co. Dublin seem to be slender. 



Joseph Meade. 

 Old Connaught, Bray. 



Hieracium hypochaeroides and Listera cordata in Co. Cork. 



I have much pleasure in adding these two interesting plants to the 

 flora of this county, as the result of an excursion to the Millstreet 

 mountains in July last. Hieracium hypochceroides, Gibs. (=H. Gibsoni, 

 Backh.), a plant peculiar to the British Isles, I found growing with H. 

 iricum and H. anglicum on rocks over Gurtavehy Lake, certainly a most 

 unexpected locality to find it in, as in its only hitherto known Irish station, 

 Glencolumbkille, Co. Clare, and in the few localities in which it occurs 

 in Great Britain, it is apparently confined to 'the Mountain Limestone, 

 whereas the Millstreet mountains consist altogether of Old Red Sand- 

 stone. The little orchid, Listera cordata, R. Br., is plentiful on the same 

 and several other mountains in the district. The identity of my hawk- 

 weed was verified by Rev. K. F. Linton, m.a., to whom my best thanks 

 are due. 



R. A. Philips. 



Cork. 



Matricaria discoidea and Arenaria tenuifolia in Ireland. 



To the list of counties recently given in the Irish Naturalist in which 

 Matricaria discoidea has been found, I can add Co. Tipperary, having seen 

 it growing abundantly by a damp roadside between Nenagh and 

 Dromineer last July, thus showing that it has begun the invasion of 

 Munster as well as Ulster. I have also seen it during the past summer 

 at Galway, Ballinasloe, Athlone, Claremorris, and Ballyhaunis. Arenaria 

 temcifolia also seems to be spreading rapidly; I have noticed it this year 

 at Roscrea in Co. Tipperary, Clara in King's County, and at Loughrea, 

 Ardrahan and Attymon junction in Co. Galway. 



R. A. Philips. 



Cork, 



