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Mr. Phillips has continued his study of the southern 

 Brambles.^ R. longithyrsiger^ previously known only as var. 

 botryeros^ is now recorded from Ireland in the typical form ; 

 and R. airvidens^ a sub-species of R, a7iglosaxo?iiais, is also 

 new to the country. R. Borceanus is also practically new to 

 Ireland, some doubt having arisen regarding the only other 

 record (Aghaderg, Co. Down). 



Mr. G. C. Druce paid us a welcome visit in the autumn of 



1906, and in the course of a rapid tour amassed an interesting 

 series of notes.^ He added Rubies thyrsoideus^ and the segre- 

 gate Rhinanthus monticola^ to the Irish flora, gathered a new 

 variety of Agrostis caniiia (var. Icevis. Hackel) on Brandon, 

 extended the range of Thymus ChavKsdrys northward into 

 Sligo, and that of Scilla ver7ia southward into Wexford, and 

 happily stumbled across a solution of the question of the 

 occurrence of the American Polygonum sagittatum in Kerry. 



As regards work dealing with individual species, northern 

 botanists carry off the palm. Mr. Tomlinson's discovery^ 

 that Spiranthes Romanzoffiana grows in abundance in several 

 stations on the northern side of lyough Neagh is of the very 

 highest interest to botanists throughout Europe. The local 

 Vetch, Vicia Orobus, of which only one plant has been known 

 to grow in Ulster for the last thirt3^-four years, has been 

 shown by Mr. Lilly* to occur on the adjoining Antrim moors 

 in a num.ber of stations, which number has been added to by 

 Mr. Tomlinson. ° 



Mrs. Leebody's find*^ of Glyceria aquatica near Bally- 

 shannon, gives a first station in the north-west of Ireland for 

 this Central Plain grass. Mr. Davies^ has found Galitcm 

 sylvestre in Down, and shown that Dr. Moore's discarded 

 Antrim record for the same plant is correct, thus extending 

 the range of this local species from the west to the east side 

 of Ireland. Mr. Waddell^ reports the identification (we hope 

 final) of a puzzling Saintfield Hawkweed, which has mas- 

 queraded under several names, as H. serratifrons^ var. 

 Cinderella ; this species has not hitherto been recorded in 

 Ireland, save from Kerry and I^imerick. 



^ Irish Nat. xv., 1 18-120. 1906. 2 j^id., xvi., 146-153. 1907. ^ Ibid.^ 

 xvi., 311-314- I907' ^ ^bid,, xv., 267-268. 1906. ^ /^/^^^ ^vi., 349-350. 



1907. ^ Ibid., XV., 233. 1906. ''Ibid., xvi., 321 322. T907. ^ Ibid, xvi., 

 350. 1907. 



