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Cove, Isle of Wi,ii;ht ; Sedum angliciim,, south side of Brixton Down, Isle 

 of VViglit ; Chelidonium glaucium. Isle of Wight ; AU]i(ea officinalis, 

 Kyde beach, Isle of Wight; Tauacctum vulgare, Saudown and Northcole, 

 Isle of Wight; Matricaria PartheiilniJi.,'$i\G,(^,-^\\\\\, Isle of Wight ; Ophrijs 

 spij-alis, Steephill ; Carex arenaria, sandy shore, north-east of Isle of 

 Wight. In the list vve have also Chenopodinm Boims-Henricas, common ; 

 Cruinhe maritima, western coast, — these are county plants, so the gene- 

 ral reference may include Isle of Wight stations. There are two notes, 

 one upon Crithiniim, the other upon Tamarix. The Bot. Guide refers 

 Aspara[/ns officinalis. Freshwater, to Pulteney (the real Simon Pure, I 

 presume). Dr. Bromfield gives the following: — Tamarix, Scilla, E. cinerea, 

 E. Tetralix, Sedum, T. Chamredrys, Pi.sum, Lnthj/r/is, Cineraria ; and refers 

 them to " Pulteney, Bot. Guide." 0. apifera he refers to " Pulteney," 

 but Nartheciiim he refers to " Messrs. Garnier and Poulter." All the 

 rest he apparently ignores, so far as the ' Hampshire Repository ' list is 

 concerned ; he refers Asparafjus to " Pulteney, Bot. Guitle." This ana- 

 lysis will, I trust, enable any possessor of the ' Flora Vecteusis ' to set the 

 Pulteney question at rest. 



Triticnm loliaccnm, Sm., is quoted on p. .599 from Fl. Vectiana, 

 "Yarmouth, D. Turner;" it should be E. Forster, jun., teste VV. D. 

 Snooke. 



In my copy of the ' Flora Vectiana ' are some few localities written in 

 pencil by a former possessor, one or two of which are of interest. The 

 app-arauce of the writing leads me to the conjecture that they were made 

 before the publication of the Fl. Vectensis : — " Verbena, near Brading ; 

 Si/mphijlam officinale, Sandown ; Euphorbia exigua. Antirrhinum Elutine, 

 tields by the roadside between Sandown and Shanklin ; Iris foetidissima, 

 between Ryde and Shanklin ; Carduns Eriophorus, Anlhyllis, Clinopo- 

 dium vuhjare, Origanum, Iris foetidissima. Euphorbia amggdaloides, be- 

 tween Luccombe and Bonchurch ; Anthi/llis, Asplenium., Cgnoglossum., 

 Chlora perfoliata, Steephill to St. Lawrence ; yl'tperula cipianchica, cliffs 

 near St. Lawrence ; Marrubium. vuJgare, between St. Lawrence and Mira- 

 bles ; Iris fmlidissima , near Mirables." 



I can only, in conclusion, add again that I trust we shall soon see a 

 new ' Flora Vectensis ;' and that, should a list of names of subscribers be 

 called for, one may be made iqi sufficiently large to warrant any compe- 

 tent botanist iu undertaking its preparation. 



NOTES ON SOME IRISH PLANTS. 

 By David Moore, Ph.D., M.R.I.A. 



During the last week of May this year, when botanizing on the Ben- 

 bidben range of limestone hills, in county Sligo, along with Professor 

 This(!lton Dyer, wc pi(;ked up a few bits of Draha rapestris, on that part 

 of the range known locally as King's Mountain, [t was growing 'along 

 with Arenaria ciliata, Draba incana, and Saxifraya aizoides, but seemed 

 to be very rare ; only two small plants were got of it. 



This species has been recorded before as an Irish plant, being marked 

 as such in i'rol'cssor Babington's ' Manual of British Botany,' 2nd edi- 

 tion. At the time when publishing our ' Cyi)clc llibcrnica,' my colleague 



