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SiSYRiNCHiUM cALiFORNicuM Dryaiidei' IN Ireland. — On June IGtb, 

 during a brief visit to Wexford, my wife and I worked a considerable 

 portion of tbe sandbills between Kosslare and Eosslare Point, 

 togetber witb parts of tbe E. sbore of Wexford Haven. In 

 returning, we explored some marsby, rusby meadow-land a mile 

 or more N. of Rosslare Station, and were mucb sui'prised to find a 

 yellow-flowered Sisrjrmchhun growing in great plenty over several 

 acres of tbe wettest part, associated with Orchis incarnata, Erio- 

 phorum mujusti folium, Raimncuhis repens, R. Flamumla, Carex distans, 

 C. hirta, C. flaccu, &c.— no introduced species being observed. Tbe 

 ground has been partially drained, but not cultivated, to all appear- 

 ances. Expecting that this would prove to be a N.E. American 

 species, I sent living examples to Mr. Britten, who, witb Messrs. 

 E. G. Baker and A. B. Rendle, kindly examined them, and found 

 them to agree with the type of .S'. caUfomicum., a plant of California 

 and Oregon. The perianth-segments are about \ in. long, of a 

 clear, bright, uniform yellow (much as in Chhn-a) when first opened, 

 but fading to orange with brown veins. When found, the blossoms 

 were in the latter state, and they probably expand only in the 

 forenoon ; what caught my eye was the sooty-brown, triangular- 

 oblong capsules. I am quite convinced that this plant has not 

 been accidentally introduced, and that, unless a true native, it 

 must have been purposely sown, many years ago. Until quite 

 recently there was no railway to Rosslare (there is none marked in 

 the ordnance-map of 1889), and the only dwellings near, with tbe 

 exception of Rosslare House, distant about half a mile, are primitive 

 fishermen's or labourers' cottages. — Edward S. Marshall. 



Westmorland Brambles. — I collected the following brambles 

 last season in the neighbourhood of Kendal, which have been 

 named for me by Rev. W. M. Rogers : — Ruhus jissus Lindl. Cuns- 

 wick Wood. — R. leucostachjs Schleich. Serpentine Wood, Kendal. 

 — R. infestus Weihe. Heversham, and on "the mosses," Low 

 Levens. — R. merciciis var. hracteatus Bagnall. Serpentine Wood, 

 Kendal. The two last species are, I think, new records for vice- 

 county 69.— C. H. Waddell. 



Newbury Casuals. — Caucalis latifulia and C. daucoides were met 

 with by Mr. H. Weaver and myself on some waste ground near the 

 Newbury Goods Station on June 7th last. Only one example of 

 each occurred. Growing near at hand were Mcdicafio denticulata, 

 Galium tricorne, and Centaurea sohtitialis, the latter having appeared 

 in this locality for two seasons in succession. These plants, of 

 course, only occurred as casuals. Two or three plants of Sisym- 

 brium, paniwnicum were observed at Enborne last year, growing 

 near a gravel-pit, and having probably been introduced with other 

 seeds. — A. B. Jackson. 



[The occurrence of solitary examples of introduced plants is 

 hardly worth recording. — Ed. Journ. Bot.] 



