io6 The Irish Nahcralist. [April, 



Two years later, in the Scottish Gardener iox 1856, the same 

 plant, this time under the name E. gracilis, Fries, was 

 recorded by the late Mr. A. G. More from the limestone 

 district of Castle Taylor and Garryland, Co. Galway. The 

 finder, however, appears to have been dissatisfied with the 

 naming of his plant, for four years later in his paper: — 

 " lyocalities for some Plants obser\^ed in Ireland" 1, we find 



this further reference to it : — 



*' Euphrasia gracilis seems to belong rather to E. Salisburgensis\ in either 

 case it is the E. nemorosa of Grenier and Godron. But the Garryland (and 

 Aran) Euphrasia differs^much from what I have gathered as E. gracilis on 

 the heaths and downs of Kent. This latter is apparently the E. 

 ericetorum of Jordan ; but I do not suppose that either is specifically 

 distinct." 



It appears clearly from More's correspondence about this 

 time with his friends, the Rev. W. W. Newbould and Professor 

 Babington, that he w^as strongly inclined to refer his Castle 

 Ta3dor plant to E. Salisburge7isis, and that he refrained from 

 adopting that name only in deference to the opinion of the 

 distinguished author of the Manual of British Botajiy 

 Through the kindness of Aliss More I am enabled to make the 

 following interesting extracts from her brother's corres- 

 pondence in ilhistration of this point. The MS. draft of the 

 paper just quoted from had been submitted by More to New- 

 bould with the name E. Salisburgensis set down for the Garry- 

 land Eicphrasia, whereupon Newbould thus writes, under date 



April 9, i860: — 



" Euphrasia Salisburgensis. — I would not use this name unless you were 

 quite sure the plant was the Continental one. If I rightly remember, 

 you showed me the plant, and it was identical with one I gathered on 

 the border of Loch Neagh. This plant, I thought, was not E. Salisbur- 

 gensis^ but E. ojjicinalis of Koch, approaching as nearly as possible to E. 

 Salisburgensis, and on mentioning this to Babington, I found that he had 

 independently come to precisely the same conclusion.'* 



Shortly before this, March 19, i860, Babington, in reply to 

 inquiries from More, had written : — 



" I do not find that I have 2^x1^ Euphrasia Salisburgensis or any other from 

 Garryland, I have what I believe to be it from the great Isle of Aran.' 

 I have given m^ gracilis and think that if we are to split here we must take 

 the French view of them and leave officinalis and nemorosa to correspond 

 with Boreau's groups, Calyce glanduleux and Calyce non-glatidulcux.^^ 



' Nat. Hist. Review, vii., p. 434. 



= Probably some of Oliver's 1852 specimens. 



