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Trifolium glomeratum T.. — I could not find this clover in the station 

 recorded by Dr. Pracger in 190Q — " in chinks of a low wall near 

 Brittas Bridge." It has no doubt been driven out here by the 

 more aggressive Medicago maciilata ; but it is flourishing on sandy 

 ground on both sides of the road for some distance south of the 

 school. On the Murrough, too, it has somewhat shifted its quarters. 

 It has become quite scarce in the old station by the riverside ; 

 but it is abundant and very large close to the west wall of the old 

 railway station, in front of the disused hotel. The building of 

 six new houses on the Murrough has made a sad breach in the 

 best of the old clover ground. 



* Saxifraga tridactylites L. — Sparingly on a wall-top in the village of 



Newtownm.ountkennedy. 



Erigeron acre L, — Recorded in the " Irish Flora," 1833, as growing 

 '■ along the riverside between Enniskerry and Lough Bray." I 

 have not seen it there, or even noticed any suitable ground for it ; 

 but it grows by the Cookstown River about half way from Ennis- 

 kerry to Glencullen ; and the old record may be a mistake for this 

 station. 



* Bidens cernua L. — Mr. Stelfox told me in 1922 that he had found this 



plant in the large pond on the right as one enters Blessington by the 

 Dublin road. I found it here in abundance last year, but had 

 not an opportunity to see how far it extended to the other 

 ponds and marshes, which are a feature of what I may call the 

 " Deerpark salient " of the county. I have now traced it to the 

 two large ponds towards the N.W. corner of Blessington Deerpark, 

 over a mile from the first find and about 250 to 300 feet higher up. 



Linaria vulgaris Mill. — Still sparingly on the Murrough, near the 27th 

 railway milepost. 



Mimulus luteus L. — Abundant along the course of the Little Slaney 

 River, in Glen Imaal, nearly reaching to the 800 feet contour. 



Orobanche minor Sm. — By the railway on the Murrough, about half a mile 

 north of iTie manure works. 



Scutellaria galericulata L. — Quite abundant between the foot of Lough 

 Dan and Oldbridge, growing with S. minor. I searched for, but 

 could not find, a hvbrid. 



Galeopsis speciosa Mill. — While exploring Glen Imaal with Mr. Stelfox, 

 I came on a potato-field full of this handsome species, by the Slaney 

 near Gibstown Bridge. 



* Chenopodium murale L. — On the North Shore at Greystones. 



Neottia Nidus-avis Reich. — Mr. Stelfox tells me that in 1921 he found this 

 in abundance near the entrance to Enniskerry Glen. I could not 

 find it this year. 



Ophrys apifera Huds. — All the older records for this beautiful Orchis are 

 from the Bray-Enniskerry district ; and I was surprised to find 



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