1907. 2 4 : 



ON RECKNT EXTENSIONS OF THE RANGE OF 

 SOME RARE WESTERN PLANTS. 



BY R. IXOYD PRAEGER. 



Last year I reported (/#.,xv., 260) the finding of a single 

 fruiting specimen of Neotinea intacta by the roadside near 

 Roundstone in Connemara, a spot far distant from the lime- 

 stone pavements with which this South European orchid has 

 hitherto been associated in Ireland ; and I expressed a hope 

 that during the present season further light would be thrown 

 on this interesting and unexpected discovery. I am glad to 

 be able now to report on this matter, and to add some notes 

 on new or recent stations for other members of the interesting 

 northern and southern groups which have made the flora of 

 the West of Ireland famous among students of European 

 plant-geography. At the end of May, Mr. F. J. Hanbury, Mr- 

 W. F. de V. Kane, Mr. Welch, my wife, and myself met at 

 Ballyvaughan, where several days were devoted to botany, 

 plant-photography, and entomology, the first-named section of 

 our work including a study of the Clare stations of Pinguicula 

 grandiflora and Ajuga pyramidalis. While Mr. Hanbury and 

 Mr. Kane remained to work at Lepidoptera, and Mr. Welch 

 pushed northward to Mallaranny to obtain photographs of 

 Erica mediterranea in the station where it attains its greatest 

 luxuriance in Ireland, my wife and I went to Bally conneely, 

 in the extreme south-west corner of Connemara, to look for 

 Neotinea. The botanical result of our trip, so far as they 

 merit publication, can conveniently be arranged under the 



names of the plants dealt with. 



Arafais ciliata, R. Biv — In several places along the northern side of 



the Ballyconneely peninsula, generally in the crevices of low rocks. 



I have previously noted its occurrence on the south side of the 



peninsula, by Aillebrack Lough. 

 Cochlearia officinalis, L,., var. alpina (H. C. Wats.). — On the earn 



on Carnsefin (1,041 feet), near Black Head, Co. Clare. 

 Sagina subulata, Presl. — In several spots along the north side of 



the Ballyconneely peninsula. 

 Geranium columDinum, L,. — With Neotinea intacta on rocky knolls 



on the north side of Ballyconneely peninsula. Very dwarf, one to 



two inches in height. This is another calcicole plant to be added 



