()o 7 he Irish Naturalist. May, 
Of peculiar interest amongst the survivals was Epilohium 
angustifolium, the Rose Bay, a species generally rare in 
Ireland, and not hitherto certainly known to occur in 
Co. Dublin. This was obviously a survival in the burnt 
ground, and was merely unveiled by the fire which had 
swept away the scrub which concealed it without destroying 
its deep-seated and long -established root-stocks. The 
first specimen was noticed on the ist September last, when 
a clump of bright red stems a few inches high and crowned 
by small rosettes of leaves was found springing from a 
blackened cleft in the granite, well inside of what had been 
the fire zone. The plant was puzzling to one unfamiliar 
with its early stages, but all doubts as to its identity were 
set at rest on the 22nd September, when three other speci- 
mens were found in full flower. Further search showed 
that fully a dozen old plants were scattered over the hill, 
about 8 of these being within the burnt areas. Some of 
the finer specimens between 3 and 4 feet in height with 
numerous stems were rooted on almost inaccessible shelves 
of granite on the face of the steep scarp which sweeps in a 
curve round the south and south-east sides of the hill 
above Vico Road, and had all the appearance . of natives. 
Most of the examples of this species found growing on the 
hill appeared to belong to the obscure form or variety 
brachycarpum of Leighton, distinguished by its broad leaves, 
obliquely pointed buds, and short, spreading pods. This 
is said to be the cultivated form, but so far as I can discover 
this means simply the wild form selected for, not the form 
produced in, cultivation. If this be so, then there is nothing 
in the form of the plant found established on Kihiney Hill 
to negative its claim to be regarded as native there, and 
moreover, some of the plants with erect pods upwards of 
3 inches long were doubtfully referable to this so-called 
cultivated variety. Whether the species be really native 
here or not, is perhaps impossible to determine, as the plant 
is often cultivated and its seeds, in common with those of 
all the Epilobiums, arc specially adapted for wind disposal. 
Whatever the standing of the plant may be on Killiney Hill, 
it is certainly fully established there, where for many years. 
