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Crlthmum marltlmum In County Down. — Until this year no 

 station in the north-east of Ireland could be certainly assigned to the 

 Samphire, though there have been several verbal reportsof its occurrence. 

 Most of these referred to Salicornia, which is often called Samphire, and 

 none were based on actual specimens or other sufiicient authority. 

 Tate, in preface to " Flora Belfastiensis," referred to such reports and 

 rejected them as unreliable, and Dr. Dickie, in "Flora of Ulster," could 

 only cite Donegal localities. The authors of " Cybele Hibernica," in 

 i866, included this species amongst the plants of district 12, but inasmuch 

 as no specific locality in Down, Antrim, or Derry was given, their 

 reference was too vague to be accepted. It is a plant to be expected on 

 the rocky coasts of Down and Antrim, but though these shores have 

 been closely scrutinised from the time of Templeton until now, a 

 period of over a century, it seems to have escaped d etection. I 

 have, therefore, much pleasure in recording its occurrence in Co. 

 Down, having seen a specimen freshly gathered by Mr. Samuel 

 Moore, a member of the Belfast Naturalists' Field Club. The locality 

 is Kearney Point, in the Ards, the most easterly point in Ireland. 

 Mr. Moore informs me that he saw only one clump of the Samphire. 

 It was situated so low that at high water it must be almost submerged. 

 Since writing the foregoing, Mr. P. F. Gulbransen, another member of 

 the Belfast Naturalists' Field Club, has informed me of a second station 

 for the Samphire in County Down. This has come still more as a 

 surprise, the locality being not far from Bangor, on a shore which for 

 botanical purposes was thought to be exhausted long since. Mr. Gul- 

 bransen stated that a few plants occur clustered together in one spot, 

 and availing myself of his directions I have seen them in the place 

 indicated. There is one little clump of about five roots growing with 

 other maritime species in a crevice of the uptilted I^ower Silurian Slates? 

 and just about the high water mark of spring tides A careful and 

 protracted, but fruitless search proved that the plant has not spread 

 beyond this one spot. S. A. Stewart, Belfast. 



Stachys Bctonica In Co. Antrim.— Rev. S. A. Brenan has 

 sent me a specimen of this plant, gathered in July near Whitehall, 

 Broughshane, Co. Antrim. He writes that the plant was growing on a 

 roadside, no house near it, and had all the appearance of being native. 

 The Betony is very rare in Ireland, and though previously recorded from 

 Go. Antrim it has not been seen in the county for half a century, so that 

 Mr. Brenan's find is important. R. LIvOYD Praeger. 



LImosella aquatica In Clare— A few weeks ago, while searching 

 for Adiantnm Capilhis- Veneris on the limestone pavements about four miles 

 from Lisdoonvarna, I found this interesting plant growing in hollows in 

 the rock in which mud had deposited. The only other note of its occur- 

 rence in Ireland is that of Mr. I^evinge, who records it as found by Mr. 

 O'Kelly in Inchiquin I^ough, Co. Clare, and near Gort, Co. Galway {Journ. 

 Bot., xxxi. (1893), p. 309). The specimens, which were in full fruit, were 

 kindly identified for me by Mr. Praeger. 



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