148 The Irish Naturalist. [Juue. 



N O T K S . 



BOTANY. 



PIJANEROCAMS. 



Saxifraga umbrosa in Queen's County. 



During a cycling excursion I observed a fine specimen of London 



Pride {Saxifniga unihrosa) growing wild on top of a wall near Lacka 



Church. I was walking up a steep hill at the time when my brother 



and I observed it there. Hitherto this plant has not been found outside 



Cork or Kerry and the South-west in a wild state. This adds another 



rare plant to the flora of Queen's County. 



R. M. Mii,i,ER. 

 Roscrea. 



[Reports of Sa.xifraga uuibrosa from various parts of Ireland have been 

 made at intervals. The plant is a free grower, and often spreads rapidly 

 where introduced. P'or instance, it fills the Glen of Altadore in Co. 

 Wicklow, and a wood at Rockport on the shore of Belfast Lough. But 

 its distribution shows that it is not a native in these localities. The 

 present station — the top of a wall — bears the stamp of introduction on 

 the face of it. The range of the wild plant has been well worked out — 

 the south and west coast of Ireland, from Waterford to Donegal. 

 The addition of the London Pride to the flora of Queen's Co. would be 

 of the highest interest; but this cannot be effected b}' the discovery of 

 one plant on a wall-top. — Eds.J 



Saxifraga trldactylites, Linn, in Cos. Down and Antrim. 



The only known station for this Saxifrage in Co. Antrim was old 

 walls about Lisburn, where, according to Templeton, it was common in 

 iSoo, In Fl. N, E. I. it is noted as "still found .sparingly on these old 

 walls." Mr. Stewart informed me that it was last seen there, in one 

 place only, about twenty years ago. I have several times examined the 

 .spot which he indicated, but the wall on which it grew has been plastered 

 over, and the Saxifrage no longer exists there. It is, however, satisfac- 

 tory to state that it is not extinct in the county, inasmuch as I have 

 lately met with it on a low wall by the weir near " The Island" on the 

 Co. Antrim side of the Lagan. It is there in such profusion that, in 

 early April, its young foliage gave a conspicuously reddish hue to the 

 top of the wall, which, later in the same month, became quite white 

 with the abundant exquisite little llowens. 



The .species also occurs, in almost ecjual abundance, on a wall of the 

 eleventh lock of the Lagan Canal, about half a mile below Lisburn. 

 This locality is in County Down. 



J. H. Davies. 



I^isl^urn. 



