26o The Irish Naiuralist. [Oct., 1897. 



Mr. Foggitt expressed to me a very confident belief that my 

 Glenmore plant would prove to be G. erectum, and recom- 

 mended a further and thoroughly critical examination ; and 

 by way of giving emphasis to his view, he adds : " We find 

 G. Mollugo only in hedgerows, never in pastures." ' 



Fortunately my friend Mr. Stewart had preserved specimens 

 of the Glenmore plant (July, 1895), which he obligingly placed 

 at my service, and willingly assisted at the needful re- 

 examination ; and, on comparing the plants, and also his own, 

 gathered at Whitewell (Co. Antrim) in 1896, with the series 

 of excellent authenticated English examples of the two 

 species, contained in his herbarium, there remains no doubt 

 that the specimens from both stations must be referred to 

 G. erectum, and Mr. Foggitt, to whom specimens have been 

 submitted, is in entire agreement. 



The earliest record for G. Mollugo in the North seems to be 

 Templeton's — ** In Mr. Tennant's Lawn at Mount Vernon " 

 [Belfast], 1797, but there are no specimens for reference. ^ It 

 would, however, now seem very probable that his plant must 

 also be assigned to G. erectum. It is conceivable that he 

 might not have known Hudson's plant as a species distinct 

 from G. Mollugo of Linnaeus, but it was described as such 

 thirty-five years prior to the date of his record.^ 



Specimens of the Aghaderg, Co. Down, Galium (1886), 

 supposed to be G. Mollugo, which have lately been received 

 from my friend Rev. H. W. Lett, do not, in any respect, diff'er 

 from the authenticated examples of G. erectum with which 

 they have been compared. 



^ Mr. Foggitt, who has devoted much attention to the study of these 

 two closely allied species, has favoured me with very fine examples of 

 his North Yorkshire G. erectum, which, he informs me, have been seen 

 and verified by my friend Mr. J. G. Baker, F.R.S. 



= It is not known what has become of that part of Templeton's her- 

 barium, containing his flowering plants. A fragment only of his 

 collection of Cryptogams, mainly Mosses and Hepatics ; also numerous 

 ela])orate MS- notes, some of them accompanied by specimens, and 

 many illustrated by his own carefully executed and exquisitely coloured 

 drawings, done for an intended descriptive Flora, are preserved in the 

 Belfast Natural History and Philosophical vSociety's Museum. 



' In Hudson's Flora Anglica, 1762, in which the habitat is given as ** In 

 pascuis montosis humidiusculis." 



