244 '^^^^ Irish NaUiralist. [October, 



PHANEROGRA MS. 



Viola lactea, Smith, in Ireland. 



On the occasion of the excursion of the Cork Naturalists' Field Club 

 on Whit-Monday last (June 4) to luchigeela, Co. Cork, I collected at that 

 place specimens of several Violas, one of which, on subsequent examina- 

 tion, proved to be V. lactea, Sm. The other specimens included 

 V. erketonim, which was abundant along the lake shore, and hybrids of 

 V. lactea and V. ericelonim, which occurred with the former on rough 

 heathy ground. The occurrence of V. lactea in Ireland seems to have 

 been doubted as, though originally recorded in Dr. Power's " Flora of 

 Cork" (1845) as found by J. Drummond on mountains near Bantry, it is 

 placed in the first edition of Cybele Hibcrnica under V. caiiina, while in the 

 second edition of that work no mention is made of it. Mr. W. H. Beeby, 

 F.L.S., who kindly examined and verified the identity of my specimens, 

 informs me that he possesses specimens of V. lactea sent him May, 1899, 

 collected by Dr. Playfair at Ballyvaughan, Co. Clare, so that there is no 

 longer any reason to exclude this interesting plant from the Irish flora. 



R. A. Phii,i,ips. 



Cork. 



Hypochaeris glabra in Co. Dcrry, 



In the Journal of Botany for September Messrs. H. W. LiCTT and C. H. 

 WADDEi^r, publish the following note :— At p. 497 of the second edition of 

 the Cybele Hibernica, Hypochceris glabra, Iv., is placed in the appendix, where 

 it is given among the " excluded species," and Mackay's early records 

 of it, which were not repeated in his Flora Hibcrnica, are described for 

 this reason as " no doubt errors," while the only other record of this 

 plant is extinguished with a "perhaps." It is interesting therefore to 

 be able to record the finding of a quantity of this plant in Jul}^, 1900, 

 growing on the extensive wild sandy Magilligan Flats in the north of 

 the County of 'Devry. The plants were all small, dwarfed perhaps by 

 the sandy soil in which they were growing, and not by any means con- 

 spicuous. The station is a level space about a rood in extent, where 

 Thymus Serpyllum wove a purple carpet, varied with white flowering 

 patches, which was a sight to see. There are indications that at some- 

 time or other the patch of ground had been cultivated, as there were 

 slight indications of ridges through it like those left after a crop of 

 potatoes, grown in what the Ulsterman calls "rigs," and are elsewhere 

 designated " laz3'-beds" ; but it is a long time since it bore a crop, as 

 evidenced by the plants now occupying it, and it is now far from any land 

 under tillage. The Flypocharis was also found on the rough ground beyond 

 the limits of the thymy patch. There can be no question from the nature 

 of the locality of its being native. 



Vitality of Allium vincalc. 



On June 6 I collected a couple of specimens of the Crow Garlic at 

 I'oulaphouca. The flower-head was then barely showing at the end of 

 the long arching stem. They were put into press, the paper changed a 

 few times, and then set aside .under a heap of other dried plants. On 



