52 The Irish Naturalist. 



NOTES ON THE FLORA OF THE NORTH-EAST 



OF IRELAND. 



BY SAMUEL A. STKWART, F.B.S.EDIN. 



( Concluded from page 38.) 



Soli dago virgaurea, Linn., var. angustffolia Gaud.— Plentiful 

 and characteristic on rocky banks of Shimna River in Tollymore Park, 

 and by the Bann above Hilltown, S. & P. 



Bldens cernua, Linn., forma radlata is plentiful at Carrickmannan 

 Lake, near Saintfield, S. A.S., 1893. Ouoile marshes, Downpatrick, R. LLP., 

 1892. 



Saussurea alplna, DC. — One spot only, on Slievemuck, Mourne 

 Mountains, at 2,000 feet, S. & P. A few plants growing on dripping 

 rocks, but they seem to produce neither flowers nor seed. Not known 

 elsewhere in district 12. 



Arctium minus, Schkur., var. majuscula Hartm. — Base of cliff at 

 Bankheads, near Larne, S. A. S., 1873, and waste ground at Larne, S.A.S., 

 1876. The specimens referred to above were submitted to Herr Mur- 

 beck, the able Scandinavian botanist, who has specially studied the 

 genus Arctium or Lappa, and are the first certainly ascertained plants 

 from this district referable to this species. The authors of " Flora N. E. 

 Ireland " did not include A. minus in their lists, as at that time no North 

 of Ireland specimens had been determined on sufficient authority. Herr 

 Murbeck considers that A. nemorosum, Lej., and A. intermedium, Lange, are 

 synonymous, and if so one of those names must be deleted from our 

 local flora. 



Card u us crispus, Linn., var. acanthoides, — Killowen, Co. Down, 

 S. and P. Mr. Praeger has refound this plant at Larne. 



Card u us pratensls, Huds.— Several stations in the Mourne Moun- 

 tains, S. and P. The only other record for Co. Down was considered 

 doubtful. 



Leontodon hirtus, Linn.— Dalchoolin near Craigavad, 1892, and 

 Narrow-water, 1893, R. LI. P. 



Hleraclum euprepes, Hanb.— I met with this plant on the Cave 

 Hill, near Belfast, in 1877, and specimens collected then, and subsequently, 

 were sent to Mr. Backhouse, of York, for identification. After a corres- 

 pondence, which lasted for some years, he finally advised that my plant 

 should be put as a form of H. pallidum, and when preparing the " Flora 

 N. E. Ireland " this course was adopted. Mr. Hanbury of London, our 

 present authority on British Hieracia has, however, met with and studied 

 the same plant in Great Britain, and has raised it to the rank of a species 

 under the above name. Mr. Praeger informs me that Mr. Hanbury has 

 specimens of this hawkweed collected by the late Dr. Mateer, of Belfast, 

 on the Cave Hill in 1845. They are in the herbarium formed by the 

 late Dr. Boswell, now included in the Hanbury herbarium. The distri- 

 bution in Ireland, as at present known, is on limestone or basaltic rocks 

 almost entirely. Cave Hill and Sallagh Braes, Co. Antrim, S.A.S. 

 Boulder clay bank, Milltown, Co. Antrim, Dr. W. A. Shoolbred, 1S93. 

 Basaltic cliffs of Benevenagh, Co. Derry, S.A.S. 



