1896.] Notes. 269 



PHANEROGAMS. 



Flora of Loug^h Dergr- — The following notes as to some of the rarer 

 species which I observed in the neighbourhood of Lough Derg in June 

 and July, 1895, may perhaps be of interest : — 



Thalicinim collinum. — A few plants among rocks near mouth of Ross- 

 more river (Co. Galway). Thalictriim Jlavum. — Abundant on banks of 

 Borrisokane river (Co- Tipperary). Aquilcgia vjilt^ans. — Frequent in 

 stony places throughout the district. Erysimum cheiranthoides. — One plant 

 at Brocka (Co. Tipperary). Geranium sanguineum. — Plentiful among rocks 

 at Drominagh (Co. Tipperary.) Galium boreale. — Abundant at Brocka. 

 Imda salicina — A fine clump of this striking plant found on rocky shore 

 of Lough Derg at Curraghmore, seen also on Brynas Island, both on 

 Tipperary shore of Lough. Caniuus pratensis. — Abundant in bogs. 

 Tcucrium scorduun. — In profusion among rocks on shore of Rossmore 

 river, and also at Drominagh. Ophrys apt/era.— 'Brequent in limestone 

 pastures at Borrisokane. Epipactis ^a/z^^/rw.— Moderately abundant in a 

 rocky meadow at Bellevue, on the Tipperary side of Lough. Habenaria 

 conopsea. — Frequent at Brocka. Sisyrinchium angustijolium. — Growing 

 freely on rocky shore at the mouth of Rossmore river. The district is a 

 most interesting one to a botanist, as it yields some species not found 

 elsewhere in the United Kingdom, and appears to be the only European 

 habitat of the beautiful Sisyrinchium angustifolium. 



C. J. Li;/i^Y, Larne. 



Sisyrinchium californicum, Dryander, in Ireland.— To the 

 Journal of Botany for August, Rev. E. S. Marshall contributes a note on 

 the occurrence of this plant in marshy meadow-land north of Rosslare 

 station, Co. Wexford, where he states it grows in abundance, among 

 plants all of which are undoubtedly indigenous. S. californiaim is a 

 native of California and Oregon, and Mr. Marshall says he is " quite con- 

 vinced that this plant has not been accidentally introduced" in its Co. 

 Wexford station. 



Dryas octopetala in Co. Antrim.— Among some plants which I 

 gathered in 1884 at the Sallagh Braes, in Co. Antrim, and which had got 

 astray among my papers, I have recently found a specimen of Dryas 

 octopetala. This discovery is interesting, as the only record of this plant 

 from Co. Antrim is in Mackay's Flora Hibernica (1836), without any locality 

 being mentioned, viz. : — " County Antrim, Mr. Templeton''' ; on which the 

 editors of the Flora of the North-east of Ireland (1888), p. 48, remark : " In 

 Flora Hibernica Mr. Templeton is erroneously credited with finding this 

 plant in Antrim." I have since heard from my friend Mr. Stewart, the 

 surviving editor, that neither he nor his coadjutor, the late Mr. Corry, 

 found in Templeton's MSS. any note of D. octopetala in Antrim, hence 

 their reason for doubting the correctness of the statement in the Flora 

 Hibernica. Mr. Stewart ha^ seen my plant, which has come as a surprise tQ 



