Notes on the Dublin Flora, 1 1 



recesses of the district in quest of botanical information. But 

 here one cannot help wondering whether the rambles of 

 many years on the part of other local observers may not have 

 resulted in similar discoveries which might fitly have found a 

 place here, and whether a critical examination of the herbaria 

 and the memories of a few of his fellow-botanists might not 

 have furnished some additions to the list. I write with no 

 personal motive, for my own acquaintance with the Dublin 

 flora is very limited, being merely the result of a single season's 

 casual botanizing ; nevertheless I may, perhaps, not inaptly 

 bring these desultory remarks to a close by the addition of such 

 notes as I have of a few rarer plants observed in the county 

 during the past season, as a small contribution towards the 

 new Flora. 



t Fumaria pallidiflora, Jord.— Cultivated ground at Dundrum and 

 Stepaside. 



* IVIalva moschata, L. — In some abundance in a meadow near Old 

 Bawn, Delow Bohernabreena, This plaxt is extremely rare in Co. Dublin, 

 and doubtfully native. Howth and Templeogue appear to be the only 

 previous records. In the present instance, the occurrence of Trifolium 

 hybridum, Medicago saliva, and Cichorium intybus in the same meadow point 

 to its introduction with the grass-seed ; it remains to be seen if it will 

 establish itself. 



Trifolium medium, L.— Kelly's Glen, Dublin Mountains. 



% Prunuscerasus, L. — In hedges near Gormanstown, in the extreme 

 north of the county. 



Rubus. — I have before me, as I write, a list of nineteen different Rubt, 

 as determined by Mr. Moyle Rogers, collected last season in various por- 

 tions of the county. The Brambles have been severely let alone by all 

 previous observers in this part of Ireland, Dr. Moore alone excepted ; 

 and even Mr. Hart's "Flora of Howth," in most respects so complete, 

 contains merely a reference to four forms. In consequence, all on my 

 list given below, with two exceptions (marked *), are new to the county, 

 and to district 5 : — R. rhamnifolius, R. nemoralis var. pule her rimtis, *R. rusli- 

 canus, R. silvaticus, R. macrophyllus, and var. Sehlectendalii, R. pyramidalis, R. 

 letccostaehys, R. mucronatus, R. echinatus, R. scaber, R. fuscus, R. rosaceus var. 

 hystrix, R. dtimetorum var. * scabrostis, R. coryllifolius and var. stiblustris and 

 var. conjungens, R, eoryllifolius x rusticanus, R. Bcdfouricimis. I hope to 

 give details of the distribution of these and other Irish Rubi in an early 

 number of the Journal of Botany. 



Carduus crispus, L,.— By the shore below Raheny ; at Balbriggan, 

 and in the grounds of Gormanstown Castle l . 



tMatricariachamomiIia,Iv.— In a gravel-pit at Clontarf. Previously 

 recorded from Baldoyle and Howth ; very rare in the county, and 

 apparently not yet established, as it is, for instance, in Antrim. 



Echium vulgare, L.. — Abundant in a dry field near Gormanstown 

 Castle, nearly two miles from the sea; seldom met with inland. 



Gormanstown Castle is in Meath, just over the county boundary, but 

 its extensive grounds lie chiefly in County Dublin. 



