348 The Irish Naturalist. November, 



NOTES. 



BOTANY. 



Mosses in Ireland — A Correction. 



At p. 234 of the Irish Natwalist for August, 1907, Mr. D. M'Ardle records 

 Polytrickum attetiua.'um, Menz. {formosum, Hedvv.) as a rare moss from Co. 

 Fermanagh, and quotes its having been found elsewhere in Ireland only 

 in Wicklow and Galway, and then says, " I have not heard of the plant 

 being rediscovered in Ireland since the publication of Moore's work in 

 1873" [? 1872]. 



This is a moss which only requires to be known to be found. H is 

 recorded from two localities in Co. Down, by " H. W. Iv." and " C. H. W." 

 in Stewart and Praeger's Supplement to the Flora of the North- East of Ireland, 

 which was published in 1894. And it is also recorded from a third Co. 

 Down locality in the Irish Naturalist for 1905, p. 3. So far from this 

 plant being rare, I have found it abundant in Co. Down, and I have 

 specimens from eleven of the other counties of Ireland, and, what is 

 worth mentioning, one of these I picked up while botanizing with Mr. 

 M'Ardle in Co. Mayo. 



H. w. Lett. 



Loughbrickland. 



Allium Scorodoprasum in Co. Dublin. 



Last June I accompanied Mr. Hindi when, as is his practice, he went 

 over the ground it was proposed should be traversed by the Field Club 

 on the ensuing excursion. We were proceeding from Lucan to Leixlip 

 through the demesne, keeping a look-out for what native plants might 

 be in bloom, and as an expeditious mode of note-keeping collecting 

 scraps of them. On the right side of the path (that next the river), in a 

 somewhat open spot under large trees, we noticed an Allium of an un- 

 familiar species in considerable quantity, though scattered. Unlike 

 A. ursinum, which grows in abundance in the more shady parts of the 

 wood, it bore instead of flowers a cluster of bulbils on stalks about two 

 feet high ; the leaves also were cauline and linear. We collected a 

 couple of specimens, one of which I brought home, which, on examina- 

 tion was referred to A. Scorodoprasum. Mr. Hindi handed over to Miss 

 Knowles the collection, with a view to its possible use in the preparation 

 ot the programme for the excursion on which she was to act as con- 

 ductor. She was much interested to find in it this plant, for it is not 

 included in the county flora. On referring to the herbarium collection, 

 she found it contained a specimen of A. Scarodoprasum collected by Dr. 

 Scott. It bears a label in his own handwriting which runs thus, " Dis- 

 covered by me in a meadow between the Royal Canal and Cardiff Bridge, 



