300 ON MONOTROPA HYPOPITVS. 



A. G. More communicated with Professor Babington about this phint, 

 who stated he had kept no note of the precise station, we therefore felt 

 uncertain about it, and considered it safest to exclude the plant. I 

 have since learned that Mr. W. Andrews, whose exertions in exploring 

 parts of the flora of Ireland are well known, had either collected the plant 

 himself on the Benbulbeu Range or had seen specimens collected there by 

 the late Mr. Wynn, of Sligo. It is also recorded in Witliering's ' Botany,' 

 on the authority of the late Professor E. Murphy, who, we believe, knew 

 he had made a mistake in taking Draba incana for it. Amidst these 

 uncertainties, it is now satisfactory to know that the plant has again been 

 seen in its Irish habitat. It is also interesting in a geographical point of 

 view, this being the only portion of Ireland where the true alpine type of 

 plants has yet been known to occur. 



At a later period of the season, end of June, we visited the locality near 

 Mullingar, where I had the previous year discovered Pi/rola rotimdlfolia, 

 for the lirst time in Ireland, and where we were able to collect a tolerably 

 good supply of specimens of it in good condition. 



At page 209 of Vol. VIII. of ' Journal of Botany,' I have a short notice 

 of an alpine Willow, which I collected on the top of Muekish, a high 

 mountain in county Donegal, wdiich could not be well identified with 

 any of our known species. Mr. Baker, who compared the specimens with 

 those of the British Willows in the Kew Herbarium, thought it nearest 

 to the plant named Salix GraJiami, specimens of which were there from 

 the Sow of Athol, Scotland. The smooth germens aiad snioolh pedicels of 

 the Irish plant inclined me to think it nearer to a form of Sallv Arbmcida. 

 Since the publication of the article in question, I was able to get living 

 plants of S. Graltami, from Athol, which I had planted along with the 

 Mui'kish plant, and now both are growing freely near to each other, show- 

 ing, as they do, unmistakably, that they belong to the same species, only 

 differing in some minor points, such as plants of the same species from 

 different localities frequently assume. This opinion has also been con- 

 firmed by the Rev. J. E. Leefe, who is a well-known authority on British 

 Willows. Mr. Leefe has further assisted me to correct an error we com- 

 mitted in ' Cybele Hibernica,' in considering Sallx prociimbens an Irish 

 plant. The Benbulbeu Willow, mentioned under that species, is a 

 dwarfed, decumbent form of one of the states of S. phyllc'ifolia. 



ON MONOTROPA HYP OP IT FS, L. 



By Ered. Stratton, F.L.S. 



This plant, which has not been noted in the Isle of Wight for more 

 than twenty years, has recently been rediscovered. Mrs. Pretyman, of 

 Westover, kindly showed it to me, growing in tolerable abundance under 

 Beech and Fir trees, not far from the house at Westover in August last, 

 and a few days ago my eldest boy (aged three) found a plant growing 

 under Beech at Carisbrooke Castle. It may be useful to note this recur- 

 rence of a plant of the nature of Monotropa after so many years during 

 which it has apparently been absent ; at least in the two localities above 

 mentioned, in neither of wdiich is it likely that it would have escaped 

 observation. From Westover I was enabled to procure several large 



