igig. Notes. 95 



BOTANY. 



Vioia stajftiina in Fermanagh. 



Viola stagnina has been found by me all through the month of June 

 in the townland of Fardrum near Drumcose Post Office, co. Fermanagh. 

 It grows in great profusion round the edges of the little loughs in the 

 limestone hollows, locally called the Green Loughs. This is a beautiful 

 and interesting spot, almost the whole townland being covered \vith a 

 native growth of Hazel, Birch, Thorn, and Mountain Ash, Spindle-tree 

 and Guelder Rose. 



W. B. Steele. 



Mr. Steele is to be congratulated on a very interesting find. V. 

 stagnina was for long known only from the area lying south-east and 

 south of Galway Bay ; its range was subsequently extended north-west 

 to Clonbur, and north-east to Drumsna. The nev/ station prolongs its 

 range another fifty miles northwards. The first gatherings received from 

 Mr. Steele contained V. Riviniana, V. canina and V. stagnina, and some 

 puzzling forms apparently intermediate ; but subsequent gatherings 

 sent up were pure V. stagnina, fine and typical. The ground which it 

 occupies in Fermanagh has figured frequently in botanical records under 

 the name of Carrickreagh or Carragh Creagh — an area of limestone rock 

 and scrub on the shore of Lower Lough Erne about seven miles north- 

 west of Enniskillen. 



R. Lloyd Praeger. 



Dublin. 



Plants of Co. Louth. 



While on holidays in Co. Louth during June I found a small patch 

 of Lasirea Thelypteris in a quaking bog on the south side of Ballabony 

 Lough, about five miles N.W. of Ardee, near the Monaghan boundary, 

 and quite a large station for Habenaria albida on the N.E. face of 

 Carlingford Mt., about a mile and a half N.W. of Carlingford. Both 

 these appear to be new to the county. Near the latter, in a deep gully, 

 I found Melica unijiora in abundance ; and I also saw Osmunda regalis 

 common on Glack and Ardee Bogs, as well as at Brackenstown. 



J. P. Brunker. 

 Rathgar, Dublin. 



