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NOTES. 



BOTANY. 

 Irish Records In the Journal of Botany. 



Mr. F. Townsend contributes to the November number of the [ournal 

 of Botany a paper on Euphrasia Salisburgcnsis Funk, found last summer by 

 Rev. E. S. Marshall on limestone rocks south of Lough Mask, Co. Mayo. 

 This is a Scandinavian and alpine plant, not hitherto recorded from the 

 British Isles. "The plant is eminently alpine," and it is therefore of 

 interest to find it not much above sea-level in Co, Mayo. " It is dis- 

 tinguished from all other British forms by its narrow leaves and bracts, 

 with comparatively few lateral usually aristate teeth." The paper is 

 accompanied by an excellent plate. 



In the December issue, Mr. H. B. Rendle publishes a description of 

 Sisyrinchm7n californicum, from plants collected last June by Rev. E. S. 

 Marshall in marshy meadows near Rosslare, Co. Wexford. To the same 

 number, Mr. Marshall contributes a paper on the results of his collecting 

 last summer at Clonbur, on the borders of Mayo and Galway, Claremorris, 

 and Wexford. The paper contains a number of valuable records, among 

 the species being Polygala oxypttra, Picrts echioides, Chenopodium rubrum, 

 Polygoniwi macnlatiim, Zostera nana, Ehocharis tinighunis, Chara connivcus 

 (new to Ireland), and C. canescens. 



Flora of the Ox Mountains. 



It was with much pleasure that I read in the December number of the 

 Irish Naturalist Mr. N. Colgan's very interesting notes of the Flora 

 of the Ox Mountains, Co. Sligo, and especially where he mentions 

 having received specimens of the rare Maiden-Hair Fern from Mr. 

 Quirk, taken from the banks of the Dromore West River; also stating, 

 that in 1891, I reported the Fern from that locality. However, wishing 

 " to give honour where honour is due," the credit of the discovery rests 

 with Miss M'Munn, of Easky, who long before 1891 found it ; but 

 hearing from a mutual friend of Miss M'Munn's discovery, I visited the 

 river in June, 1891, and found the fern growing profusely on the per- 

 pendicular face of the limestone rock, through which the river has cut a 

 narrow passage eight or ten feet deep. The fern is growing on the 

 eastern bank in two or three large patches, with smaller ones, and solitary 

 plants, scattered along for a distance of twelve or fifteen yards ; the 

 largest patch forms a thick growth covering a span about four feet square, 

 growing in a soft calcareous deposit from the water dripping over the 

 rocky face of the bank. This fern appears to be very rare in the Co. 

 Sligo, for in the Cybele Hibernica only one locality, four miles from the town 

 of Sligo, is mentioned. When at Lough Talt, Mr. Colgan does not 

 mention finding Polypodiiim Dryopteris ; it used to grow on the road 

 side between some stones at the base of the fence nearly opposite the 

 Police Barrack, where I found it, and sent some fronds to my esteemed 



