42 The Irish Naturalist. February, 



Dublin Plants. 



Chiefly iu the course of clays spent in botanical surveying with Dr. 



Pethybridge among the Dublin mountains last autumn, the following 



plants were observed, which may be worth recording: — 



Barbarea arciiata, Reich. — Churchtown, Dundrum, a few plants on a shady 

 roadside bank. 



Saxifraga stellaris, L. — By a spring on Seecawn. Upper Glenasmole is 

 the only previous Dublin station. 



Filago minima, Fr. — Sparingly at Glencullen quarries. Previously re- 

 corded from the base of Three Rock INIouutain only. 



Arctium Newbouldii, Ar. Benn. — Edmundstown. For notes on this plant 

 see I.N., 1903, pp. 289-290, and 1904, pp. 3, 9, 13. 



Hieraciuvi boreale, Fr. — Wall on the north bank of the Dodder, opposite 



Rathfarnham. The banks of the same stream above Old Bawn form 

 the only other Dublin station. 



Vacci>iiu7n Vitis-Idcea, L — On the slight hill between Kippure and See- 

 fingan, and tolerably abundant on Seefingan. Kippure and Seecawn 

 are the only recorded stations. 



Andromeda Poli/olia, Iv. — A frequent ingredient of the wetter bogs on the 

 mountains, and almost always present where Sci?-pus caspitosus be- 

 comes abundant. Noticed all along the ridge on which the county 

 boundar}' runs from Kippure to the Military road; on the east side 

 of the Military road near where it crosses the county boundary; on 

 Glendoo Mountain ; on the ridge west of Prince William's Seat ; and 

 in a wet bog N.E. of the same hill (presumably the station noted by 

 Mr. Colgan, I.N., 1903, p. 189). 



Mentha rubra, Huds. — Established in wild ground on the north bank of 

 the Dodder a quarter of a mile above Rathfarnham bridge. Ap- 

 parently not on record for the county. 



Lastrea Oreopteris, Presl. — Sparingly by the Killakee stream at 1,250 feet. 

 Grows luxuriantly, and in some abundance by the Cot Brook in 

 Glenasmole, and sparingly by the stream north of Seecawn. 



Equisetum liyemale, L. — Abundant along a roadside fence east of Mount 

 Venus (Mrs. R. LI. Praeger). 



R. Liv. Praeger. 



Dublin. 



Iris faetidissima in West Mayo. 



It may perhaps interest readers of the Irish Naturalist to hear that Iris 

 fatidissima, as recorded by Mr. Praeger last year (vol. xii., p. 269), has 

 been well established for some years in West Mayo. I noticed a good 

 many plants growing by the roadside at Murrisk, close to the foot of 

 Croaghpatrick, on thellrive from Louisburgh to Westport, on the 28th 

 June, 1900, and was specially interested in the discovery, as it was new 

 to District VIII. of the Cybelc Hibernica. 



Frances M. More. 



Rathmines. 



