iQoo.] Notes. 245 



going througli the buudle at the end of August, these specimens were 

 found to have produced fully-developed heads of bulbils of quite the 

 average size. This surpasses the Sedums, such as S. riipestre^ which has 

 continued growing for six weeks with me after being put into press. The 

 London Pride is another plant of great vitality, ft does not actually 

 grow, but the leaves will retain their moisture and remain fresh for a 

 mouth or six weeks after being gathered, in spite of pressure and 

 frequent changes of paper. 



R. IvLOYD PrAEGER. 



Dublin. 



Senecio squalidus, L<, in Dublin. 



In June, 1S99, when passing through luchicore in a train, I caught 

 sight of two or three specimens of this species on a wall-top. In the 

 same month this year, being in Dublin, I paid a visit to Inchicore to see 

 if the plant was there only as a casual or as a colonist, and was rather 

 surprised to find it/ first, on the wall by the railway, then, more plentifully 

 on other walls and by pathways in the vicinity, and finally, in profusion, 

 in an enclosure in which was stored a lot of old building and railway 

 material, and in disused garden plots and other waste places. 



In several spots I also noticed what looks like a radiate form of Senecio 

 vulgaris^ but may be the hybrid S. squaiidtis x vulgaris ( = S, hibernica^ Syme) 

 as, in most cases, it grew in company with these two species. 



In the same localit}- I noticed a few other interesting aliens, viz., 



Lychnis alba, Cardnns crispns, d'cpis taraxacifolia, and Hordetun mnrinwn. 



The presence of S. squaiidtis in Dublin is, I think, worth recording as an 



instance of a South European plant which, having become well established 



in the south of Ireland, at Cork, Baudon, Kinsale, &c., within the past 



seventy years, seems now in a fair way to become a colonist in this much 



more northern station. I have little doubt that it has been introduced 



at Inchicore with old building and railway material brought from the 



Cork terminus of the Great Southern and Western Railway, and it will 



be interesting to watch the rate at which it spreads to other parts of Co. 



Dublin. My friend, Dr. R. W. Scully, F.Iv.S., informs me that he has 



noticed it at luchicore for the past seven or ten years, and that it 



appears to be spreading. 



R. A. Phili^ips. 

 Cork. 



Piantagro media In Co. Wexford. 



Towards the end of July Miss E. V. Cooper showed me some specimens 

 of this plantain, which she had found growing plentifully in a plot of 

 ground belonging to Killanne National School. As in all its other Irish 

 stations, the plant was probably sown with grass-seed. According to 

 the Cybek Hibernica, Plantago media, or Lamb's-tougue, is spreading in 

 Ireland, but the present seems to be the first instance of its having been 

 gathered in District IV. Its light lavender filaments make it much the 



prettiest of the genus. 



C. B. Moffat. 

 Ballyhyland, Co. Wexford. 



