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amazing numbers and so luxuriantly, on the rough, steep 

 bank, which is never cultivated, and seemingly never dis- 

 turbed, that one may conjecture it to be of long standing 

 there. It is not to be seen in any of the adjacent fields. It is 

 a trite saying that the casual of to-day often becomes a more 

 or less familiar object in the future, and that appears to be so 

 in the case of the present plant. First discovered in Ireland 

 by Mr. Stewart, near Belfast, upwards of twenty years ago, it 

 was excluded bj^ him from Flora of North-east Ireland as a 

 poor alien. It seems now to have established a permanent 

 home here, and to have gained the right to colonial citizen- 

 ship. 



Other things of interest might, no doubt, have been noticed 

 had one been in these places to botanise, but I was only a 

 passing wayfarer. 



Lisburn. 



NOTES. 



BOTANY. 



Characese of County Monaghan. 



I ought to have stated in my paper, which appeared in the last issue of 

 the Irish Naturalist^ that specimens of the plants collected were submitted 

 to Messrs. H. and J. Groves, who were good enough to give me their 

 valuable aid in their identification and verification. 



G. R. BuIvI^ock-Webster 

 Ely. 



Carex paludosa Good. var. spadicea Both in Ireland 



Fresh specimens of this variety, which is well distinguished by the 

 long serrulate awns borne by the glumes of the fertile spikes, were sent 

 me last June by Mr. R. M. Barriugton of Fassaroe, who had gathered 

 them at Clonea marsh, Co. Waterford, where he noticed the plant grow- 

 ing the previous year. The name is confirmed by Mr. Arthur Bennett, 

 who has kindl}' examined specimens. There does not appear to be any 

 previous Irish record for this variety. 



N, C01.GAN. 



Dublin. 



