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These specimens are interesting as showing proof that the plant has 

 grown at Portmaruock certainly for over thirty years, and probably 

 for at least half a century. 



Artemisia maritiina, L-— Mrs. Frank Joyce sends this (June, 1900), 

 from the coast beyond Barna, W. Galway, an interesting addition to 

 the flora of District VII [. 



Scropliularia umbrosa, Dum. — In my own herbarium I find a 

 specimen of this plant gathered by the Lififey, above the Salmon-leap 

 at Ivcixlip, Co. Kildare, on the occasion of the Dublin Nat. Field 

 Club excursion in August, 1894, but not recognised at the time. Its 

 only other Irish stations lie a little further down the river in Co- 

 Dublin, where it was found and identified by Mr. Colgan in 1895 

 {_LN., v., 1S2, 1896.) 



Spiranthes Romanzoviana, Cham. — I received last September 

 from Mrs. Crookshank, The Warren, Portrush, a specimen of this 

 extremely rare orchid, gathered in a new station near Kilrea, Co. 

 Derr}'. Mrs. Leebody's station lay by the river, about a mile below 

 Kilrea (/./v'*., ii., 228, 1893), Mrs. Crookshauk's locality is close to 

 the town. 



Cephalanthcra ensifolia, Rich.— Mr. W. F. de V. Kane sent me in 

 June, 1898, an orchid gathered close to Pontoon Bridge, West Mayo. 

 The specimen arrived in so battered a condition, owing to an 

 accident in transport, that I was afraid to name it definitely; but 

 after a minute examination Mr. Rolfe has no hesitation in saying 

 that my provisional naming is correct. This forms a valuable 

 addition to the flora of District VIII. 



LeucojuiYi aestivum, L.— This plant was found growing in some 

 abundance in a swamp by the river Slane3% near Macmine, in 1897, 

 by Rev. E. S. Marshall, who stated {Journ. Bot., 1S9S, p. 49) his con- 

 viction that the plant was native there. It was not admitted as such 

 in Cyhele Hihcniica. Mr. Marshall repeated his opinion injourn. Bof., 

 1899, p. 272, and Messrs. Colgan and Scully reply on the general 

 question in the same volume, pp. 315-7. 



In May last Mr. Wm. F. Nicholson sent me specimens of this plant 

 from near Waterford. In replj' to inquiries Mr. Nicholson writes that 

 the plant grows in Kilbarry Bog, on the outskirts of Waterford ; 

 that it has groM'n there for thirty or forty years ; and that the place 

 is not near any house or garden. 



I have also received specimens from Mr. R. D. O'Brien, collected 

 on the Clare side of the Shannon, two miles north of lyimerick. The 

 finder writes; — 



*' A creek enters the Shannon on the Clare side, about a quarter of a 

 mile below the salmon weir, which is almost at the head of the tide- 

 way, and the land intervening is the only bit of the Shannon marshes- 

 which has not been embanked. They are overflowed at spring-tides, 

 and consist of marshy meadows and sallies. 



*' In June, 1897, I found Laicojitm fruiting in the meadow, and have 

 since observed it there every spring. This year I examined the place 



