1896.] 247 



NOTES. 



BOTANY. 



PHANEROGAMS. 

 Veronica percgrlna L. in ireland.— This plant was recorded 

 from Belfast in 1S57 by Rev, W. M. Hind, who found it " fully esta])lished 

 as a weed of the soil at The lyodge" iJPhytologist, n.s. ii. p. 47). It does 

 not appear to have made headway in this district, as it has not been 

 found near Belfast by any subsequent botanist, and Mr. Stewart remarks 

 (^Flor. N.E.I?) "perhaps extinct about Belfast." In Co. Tyrone it was 

 observed so far back as 1S36, according to Cybelc Hibeniir.a, "growing 

 abundantly within the demesne of Barnescourt " [Baron's Court], and 

 subsequently " in several localities between that place and London- 

 derry," and in More's " Recent Additions," {Jom-n. Bot., 1872), three 

 Donegal localities are added, two on the authority of Mr. Hart, the 

 other on that of Mr. Hind ; also the more distant stations of Rockingham 

 in Roscommon, and Hazelwood in Sligo, on the authority of Dr. Moore. 

 In Donegal it would appear to have become quite naturalized, for Mr. 

 Hart says of it in 1883 "in many places from east to west of Donegal 

 this has become the commonest garden weed. Except in gardens I 

 have not met with it" [Jotim. Bot., xxi., p. 208.) In its head-quarters in 

 the valley of the Foyle, it appears to have thoroughly established itself, 

 as Mrs. Leebody has this season sent me fine specimens which she 

 collected in abundance in gardens at Duncreggan near Londonderr}', 

 while she has also found it abundant in a nursery garden near the same 

 town, and at Culmore (all these stations are on the Donegal side of the 

 Foyle) ; also at Favor Royal and Donaghmore, both in Co. Tyrone. This 

 plant, therefore, would appear to be thoroughly established in cultivated 

 ground in the north-west of Ireland, and the fact is of interest, as, so far 

 as I can find, it is unknown in England, and in Scotland is recorded 

 from Perth alone. In the " London Catalogue " it does not find a place 

 being apparently treated as merely a casual, and unworthy of insertion 

 but the above records show that it merits recognition as a British plant 

 quite as much as, say, Camelina sativa or Cotida coronopifoHa. Veronica 

 peregrina is an American species, now found, according to Nyman's 

 Conspectus, in Spain, France, Belgium, Holland, Germany, Italy, &c., and 

 it appears to be one of the several American immigrants that has settled 

 down as a colonist on European soil. 



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Sclrpus parvulus, R..&S. (= S. nanus, Sprcngr,)— Mr. R. M. 



Barrington sends fresh specimens of this very rare little plant, collected 

 on July 14th at Arklow. It is interesting to know that, despite recent 

 changes, the plant still survives in its only Irish station. 



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