222 ON SOME RARE IRISH PLANTS. 



axils of the leaves, on ascending pedicels about an inch long, with 

 a pair of large persistent linear bracteoles at the middle. Calyx 

 campanulate, blackish, obscurely pilose, ^ in. long; teeth deltoid. 

 Corolla dark red, thinly pilose externally, f in. long ; tube curved, 

 infundibuliform, ^ m. diam. at the throat ; segments subequal, 

 orbicular, ^-^ in. long. Stamens a little exserted. Ovary 2-celled, 

 with two ovules in a cell. Fruit not seen. — Forests of West 

 Betsileo, flowering in December and January, Baron 124. 



(To be continued). 



ON SOME RARE IRISH PLANTS. 



By Thomas H. Corry, M.A., F.Z.S. 



An examination of plants gathered during the past few years 

 in various parts of Ireland having yielded new or additional 

 stations in the provinces, as laid down in the ' Cybele Hibernica,' 

 for certain rare and interesting plants, I now offer the results to the 

 readers of this Journal. In all cases where the plant is an addition 

 to the flora of the province in which it occurs, this is signified 

 by the initial D. before the numeral indicating the province. 

 Many of the specimens have been submitted for examination to 

 Prof. C. C. Babington, who has kindly signified the results of his 

 determination of them : in such cases this fact is expressed by a 

 mark of admiration followed by the initials C. C. B., i)laced after 

 the station. 



Thalictntm majiis, fi. Kochii, Fr. — D. 6. Limestone rocks on the 

 hillside south of Blackhead, Co. Clare! (C. C. B.). This is the 

 station given by Mr. F. J. Foot in the ' Cybele ' for T. fiexuosum, 

 Bernh. An addition to the Irish flora. 



Ranunculus heteropJu/lJus, Fries. — D. 6. Drains by the Fergus 

 at Clare Abbey, Co. Clare ! (C. C. B.). D. 12. By the shores of 

 Lough. Neagh at Crumlin, Co. Antrim ! (C. C. B.) ; in the Money- 

 cara River, Newcastle, Co. Down! (C.C.B.); and Ballylough Lake, 

 Castlewellan, Co. Down ! (C. C. B.). 



Fi. jjmicillatus, Hiern. — 10. In the canal at Maghery, and in 

 Lough Neagh, near the mouth of the canal, Co. Armagh! (C. C.B.). 

 D. 12. In the Bann near Coleraine, Co. Derry, G. C. Hyndman. 



Alliaria officinalis, Andrzj. — 10. Near Clones, Co. Monaghan. 



Cramhe maritima, L. — 11. Tory Island, Co. Donegal, G. C. 

 Hyndman. An authentic specimen of this plant, gathered by 

 Mr. Hyndman in the station above mentioned, exists in the 

 Herbarium of the Belfast Natural His^^ory and Philosophical 

 Society, so that the true plant was really in former times a native 

 of the island, and no error occurred in its being recorded therefrom 

 in Dickie's ' Flora of Ulster,' although neither Mr. H. C. Hart 

 (Journ. Bot., n. s., viii., p. 81) nor Mr. R. M. Barrington {id. 266.) 

 were able to meet with it on Tory. 



