94 • The Irish Naturalist. [ April, 



Rubla peregrrlna, Linn. 



IV. W1CKI.0W — steep rocks, south end of Bray Head. 

 Galium MoIIuiTo x vcrum { = ochroleuctcm, Syme). 



IV. WiCKi,ow — dry pasture behind Greystones, 1893. 

 Dlpsacus sylvestrls, Huds. 



V. MeaTh — dry banks at Bective and Laytown. LouTH — rough 

 banks by the Boyne about the Obelisk, and near Queensboro', 

 Existing records for District V. appear to be confined to Co. 

 Dublin. 

 Fllagro minima, Fr. 



V. Meath— damp sandy ground behind the light-houses at Boyne- 

 mouth, with Cejtiuncidus. 

 Anthemis nobllis, Linn. 



III. Queen's— abundant on the Great Heath of Maryborough, andnO 

 doubt indigenous. 

 *A, arvenslSy Linn. 



rV. WiCKi^ow— in a meadow near Greystones— introduced with grass 

 seed, 

 ^Matricaria Chamomllla, Linn. 



V. Kii^DARE— near Kdenderry. MeaTh— Kilmessan . Hanging 



suspiciously about roadsides and farm-houses ; apparently not 

 yet established in this part of Ireland. 

 Seneclo Jacobaea, Linn. var. b. flosculosus (Jord.) 



V. Louth — Immensely abundant from the Boyne to Clogher, covering 

 hundreds of acres of sandhills and pasture ; the normal form 

 completely absent. Threlkeld recorded it from this locality a 

 hundred and seventy years ago. 

 S. eruclfollus, Linn. 



V. Kii^DARE— north of Leixlip railway station. MeaTh— at Laytown, 

 and a mile south of it. 



The range of this interesting plant is thus extended into 

 Kildare and Meath, but it only crosses the county boundary 

 by a few miles, and is to all intents confined to Co, Dublin. 

 The verification of Dr. Moore's record " between Drogheda and 

 Dundalk " is very desirable. 

 Carduus pycnoccphalus, Linn. 

 III. Queen's— Maryborough esker. 



V. Kii^DARE— Carbury. MeaTH— Enfield, Bective. 

 VII. King's— Edenderry, Philipstown. 



Though rare inland, this thistle turned up in a number of 

 places, chiefly esker-ridges and gravelly places, often with 

 C. crisptis. It appeared to grow where suitable ground existed, 

 and was not confined to the neighbourhood of houses. 

 Arctium maJuSf Bernh. 



V. Dubinin— roadside near St. Doulough's. MeaTh— near Oldcastle, 



Louth — waste place at Blackrock. 

 X, Cavan — roadside near south-east' end of Lough Ramor. 



The claims of this species as an Irish plant hitherto rented 



