356 The Irish Naturalist, November, 



where it was in abundance, being five miles south of the Sallagh Braes. 



I have now to record the plant from two additional Antrim stations. 



A short distance from Ballyboley station, in the townland of 



Ballybrackeu, and adjoining the Ballymena and Larne railway on the 



south side, is a piece of rough, bushy, and heathy pasture. Here, on 



July 6, I espied a fine plant of Vicia Orobas in full bloom. I met with a 



half-dozen more plants as I tramped across the area. Some of the 



plants noted formed, as it were, a flat rosette on the rocky, stunted 



pasture. This station, at Ballyboley, is ii miles south-west of Mr. 



Lilly's one at Lower Ballygowan, and is still further away from Sallagh 



Braes. My second station is on Irish Hill, just four miles south of 



Ballyboley, and about five miles north- w T est of Carrickfergus. I found 



it on the south side of this hill, on July 22, growing sparingl}' — only 



three plants noticed — among Calluna, on the heathy slope, and attaining 



a height of about 20 inches. 



W. J. C. Tomunson. 

 Belfast. 



Hieracium serratifrons, var. Cinderella, in Ireland. 



A hawkweed which grows on rocky w r ooded ground at Rowallane, 

 near Saintfield, Co. Down, was recorded as Hieracium sciaphihtm, L^echtr., 

 by D. Redmond in the "Supplement to the Flora of N.E. Ireland." I 

 have sent it several times to the Exchange Clubs, and it has proved a 

 difficult plant to name. Rev. A. Ley has now identified it, in the report 

 of the Botanical Exchange Club for 1907,, p. 103, with a variety lately 

 described by him, H. serratifrons, Almq., var. Cinderella, Ley. Revs. W. 

 R. Linton and E- S. Marshall agree, and the latter says, " it is unlike 

 H. sciaphilum both in foliage and inflorescence, and identical with Mr. 

 Ley's new variety, except that the head-glands are a little denser." 



The species is remarkable for the long teeth at the truncate bases of 

 the leaves. The following description of the variety is given in the 

 Journal of Botany for March, 1907, p. 109 : — 



"Aspect and height of var. lepistoides, K. Johauns., w 7 hich it closely 

 resembles in its root-leaves. The following characters separate it from 

 that plant : — Stem-leaf well developed, ovate-lanceolate, often deeply 

 toothed at the truncate base. Peduncles long ; phyllariesloug, narrowly 

 subulate, senescent, very glandular ; floccose on the surface and very 

 floccose-edged. Heads narrow, light grey to brown, never black ; small 

 normally cuneate-based. Ligule rather densely ciliate-tipped. Style 

 livescent. Banks and woods ; June." 



It has been found in the west of England and in Wales. 



C. H. Waddeu,. 

 Saintfield. 



Orchis pyramidalis in Co. Down. 



In the Journal of Botany for October, Mr. A. A. Dallmau records the 

 finding of a colony of this orchid at Mountstewart, near Newtownards, 



