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with villous or woolly scapes and most variable leaf-cutting, occur 

 at Greenore Point ; some of them evidently come very near to the 

 var. ceratophyllon Rapin, if not exactly that. 



A triplex littoralis L. On a dyke-bank to the south of Wexford 

 Harbour ; doubtless a survival from the reclamation of the " slob " 

 lands. 



Hippophae rhamnoides L. Two good- sized patches were met with 

 about half-way up the cliffs near Ardamine Church, two or three 

 hundred yards apart. They look thoroughly spontaneous. Can the 

 extensive thickets at Courtown have been derived from this source ? 

 Or is the Ardamine growth due to berries brought by birds from 

 Courtown? But for the information given in Cybele Hibernica, 

 I do not think that anybody would have doubted its wildness in 

 both places. 



Orchis pyramidally L. Sandy coast south of Ardamine ; also at 

 Courtown and Rosslare, but very scarce. — 0. incarjiata L. Damp 

 pastures, Churchtown, with Op/irys apifera, which also occurs near 

 Ardamine. 



Habenaria bifolia E. Brown. Near Rosslare, sparingly. 



Sisyrinchium californicum Alton. I paid a special visit to the 

 station discovered in 1896, and carefully examined the ground 

 afresh. The plant grows over an area of about eight acres, as near 

 as I can estimate, being confined to the wetter places ; it does not 

 occur on the reclaimed lands, which indeed produce hardly anything 

 of botanical interest. Except for the partial drainage caused by 

 small ditches having been dug, the locality does not appear to have 

 been interfered with ; stunted heather occurs on the driest parts of 

 the peaty soil. Orchis incarnata, a peculiar form of 0. latifolia, and 

 various Carices and Junci being more or less plentiful. My original 

 opinion that the only source of introduction worth considering was 

 the possibility of its having been purposely sown has been strength- 

 ened ; and I do not now hesitate, in spite of the enormous priwd 

 facie improbability of a purely W. American species being native in 

 S.E. Ireland, to state my belief that we have here an instance of 

 survival from an earlier flora, and not an adventitious plant. It 

 remains to be seen whether S. californicum grows in other parts of 

 the south coast ; its discovery elsewhere under similar conditions 

 would, of course, greatly strengthen the theory now put forward. 

 It appears to be quite hardy, and has done well on ordinary ground 

 in my garden. 



Leucojum csstivum L. This attractive Irish novelty was obtained 

 in a swamp by the river Slaney, a few hundred yards below Mac- 

 mine Castle, growing under much the same conditions as in the 

 Thames valley, and associated with the plants usually found in such 

 situations ; I must have seen from sixty to eighty fine specimens 

 in flower or fruit, and there was nothing in its surroundings to 

 make me distrust its being truly wild. I believe that it will be 

 found in other parts of these marshes, if anybody will take the 

 trouble to search them thoroughly at the proper season. 

 Lemna gibba L. In ditches at Churchtown. 



Fotamogeton densus L. Pool by the railway above Macmine 



