200 September. 



SOME PLANTS OF THE NORTH-EAST COAST. 



BY R. LLOYD PRAEGER. 



During the present season I devoted a few days to endeavour- 

 ing to determine or confirm the northern limit of some of our 

 rarer plants on the eastern side of Ireland, and during the 

 procevSS some other species of interest turned up. 



Over sixty years ago, John Ball recorded^ Trifolhcm striatiun 

 and Trig07iella ortiithopodioidcs as found by him on the summit 

 of Clogher Head, Co. Louth. The next botanist to make 

 observations on the flora of the headland was Cecil Butler, 

 who in 1890^ added Irifolhcm arve7ise, but does not mention 

 having seen either of the two rare plants found by Ball. I 

 was there in 1896, too late to look for Ball's plants, but noted 

 Irifolium fragifey'um by the shore near the Head. Of the four 

 Legu7ninoscs named, the second and fourth found here their 

 northern limit on the eastern side of Ireland ; this remark 

 applied also to another Clogher Head plant, namely, Statice 

 occidc7italis. On July 3 last I spent three hours at Clogher 

 Head, endeavouring to refind Ball's clovers. T. striaUun 

 turned up almost at once, among rocks half-w^ay between 

 the road and the coastguard watch-house on the highest 

 point of the Head. With it was T. filifo7')ne^ not previously 

 known from Louth, here growing in ground that never had 

 nor could be cultivated — a quite satisfactory station. Both 

 these clovers occurred again around a splendidly glaciated 

 sheet of rock at an equal distance on the opposite side of the 

 watch-house. My scrutin^^ revealed no trace of T7'ioo7iella; 

 and this in spite of the fact that it was just the season for it, 

 for I had gathered it in abundance at Howth three days 

 before. Two other plants recorded by Ball were seen in pro- 

 fusion, namely, Scilla ver7ia, and a white-flowered form of 

 ATithyllis Vubicraria ; of the latter a rose-red form occurred 

 likewise : the white form is commoner at Clogher Head than 

 the type. Riding back, I saw on a ruined cottage near Ter- 

 monfeckin a quantity of Festuca Myuros, new to Louth, and 



^ Botanical notes of a tour in Ireland Annals of Nat. Hist., 



II., 28-36. 1839. 



^ New Stations of Irish Plants. —/<?«;-«. Bot., xxviii., 361-2. 1S90. 



