I900.] Hart. — Rcma7-ks on Cybck Hibcrnica. 2>1 



Bartsia viscosa, L — The absence of au intermediate station from 

 Kerry to Donegal is no sort of suggestion that it has been intro- 

 duced in Donegal. It is onlv evidence that like manv other rare 

 plants it lias disappeared from many stations. It occurs in 

 Scotland. Other outliers of a similar character are Carum 

 verticillaiuvi^ Euphorbia hiberna^ and Trichonianes radicans. 

 IVIelampyruiYi sylvaticum, L. — The late Mr. A. G. More 

 counselled me against ni}' inclination to reject this record from 

 Donegal. I believe no specimens were forthcoming, and he 

 believed tliere was an error. I have repeatedly searched the place 

 indicated in Cybclc. 



Orobanchc minor, Smo — On Ononis and Lotiis at Portmarnock, V. 

 (Jourti. of Bot., 1S97). The specimeni> are in the Dublin National 

 Museum. They have been examined by Mr. Bennett, who has 

 made a study of tlie genus. He says he can refer them to nothing 

 but O. minor. The station is on unbroken ground, two or three 

 hundred j-ards south of the Club-house. Having seen vay record, 

 the editors need scarcely have been at the trouble, gratuitously, 

 of remarking " exclusively on T. fratcnse in Ireland." 



NcpctaCIechoma, Eeuth. — Singularh- rare in Donegal. 



Atriplcx portulacoldcs, L. — Muddy estuar^^ close to the old 

 ruined mill ai Portmarnock, V. 



A. farinosa, L —^^o. Journal of Botany, 1897, p. 34^. This record is 

 omitted in Cybek. The species appears to be spasmodic in its 

 appearance in Dublin Ba}-. When I gathered it in 1897, my 

 nephew was with me on each occasion, who has a good eye for 

 plants. He was unable to rediscover it in 1898; it was however 

 somewhat late in the season when he searched. I have no doubt 

 of the species. In 1899 it reappeared (in no such plenty) in 

 several of the habitats given in fonrnal of Botany. 



Euphorbia hiberna, L. — The name Makkin bzcee is the Irish in 

 use in Galway for the Irish Spurge, as I recorded in Joiirn. of 

 Bot. in 1873. It is the older name, given by Threlkeld and 

 K'Eogh, who copied Threlkeld whenever he could, and when he 

 could not, he let his imagination play freely around, at any rate in 

 records, which should never be quoted unconfirmed. The Irish 

 name given in Cybele is both wrongl}^ spelt and interpreted. It is 

 given in O'Reilly " buidhe-jia-ningean, spurge ; tetJij'fnai/ia,^' which 

 would pronounce " bwee-na-ngeown," and translate " the yellow 

 wave-lover." According to Cameron this name refers properly to 

 £. Fara/ias, but the derivation would limit the name to 

 £. portlandica, but as we see from O'Reilly it is generic. Cameron 

 {^Gaelic Plant-tiames) blunders about the trout poisoning. I never 

 heard in Kerry of any plant used for the purpose except the Irish 

 Spurge. At any rate Makkin bwee seems to be correctly the dis- 

 tinctive name. I believe the name of the hills above Chevy Chase, 

 where I found this plant, was " Derrybrian." I did not learn the 

 name till afterwards. It certainly was not " Derryea," as given in 



