50 SOME PLANTS OBSERVED IN CO. WEXFORD. 



Junction, in small quantity. — P. interruptus Kit. Frequent about 

 Macmine Junction, Wexford, Rosslare, Churchtown, and Courtown; 

 always, I believe, the var. scoparius. 



Ruppia spiralis Hartnian. Abundant in a pool by the railway 

 at the S.W. angle of Wexford Harbour. 



Zannicliellid hrachjstcmon J. Gay ? Ditch in a marsh east of 

 Wexford (opposite the town). Plant very slender; stigmas large ; 

 styles about one-third the length of the fruit. Also marked as seen 

 at Churchtown. 



Eleocharis unigliimis Reichenbach. A peculiar plant with very 

 dark (chocolate-brown) glumes grows in profusion in a damp 

 pasture about midway between Macmine Castle and the Junction, 

 and was also seen near Wexford and Rosslare. It may be 

 Babington's E. Watsoni] but no ripe fruit was present. 



Carex disticha Hudson. Plentiful in the marshes near Macmine 

 Castle ; also by the railway, in a swamp at the S.W. end of Wexford 

 Harbour. — C. teretiuscula Good. Marshy meadow east of Wexford, 

 near the Zannichellia station. — 0. Goodenovii J. Gay. A " has- 

 socky" form, plentiful by the Slaney at Macmine Junction, is placed 

 by Mr. Bennett under \n>v. J2incella. In a peaty marsh-dyke, about 

 half a mile inland from Rosslare village, I came across an extra- 

 ordinary-looking sedge with Goodenovii leaves and inflorescence, but 

 forming elevated peaty tussocks about eighteen inches high and 

 eight or nine in diameter, something like those commonly seen in 

 C. stricta and C. paradoxa, but smaller. Mr. Bennett places this 

 under Goodenovii. Pfarrer Kuekenthal commented on it thus :— 

 ''I, too, have not seen 0. vulgaris so densely tussocky before. If 

 C. caspitosa L. were present at the spot, one might think it a hybrid 

 between that and C. vulgaris. But as C. ccEspitosa is absent from 

 Ireland, probably we have here only a C. vidgaris Fr. y elatior Lang, 

 forma caspitosa." Subsequently he wrote : — "I have already ven- 

 tured to hint that the combination Carex cccspitosa x vidgaris has 

 much in its favour ; much more than the determination as C. vul- 

 garis. I also now find at the top of the ? glumes something that 

 recalls C. caspntosa, viz. a slight white scarious border [Yes; but 

 very slight. — E. S. M.] . But C. caspitosa would have to be found 

 in the neighbourhood before [we could adopt this view] ." I am 

 not satisfied that the plant is Goodenovii, pur et simple ; apparently 

 it is sterile, but that may well be owing to immaturity. — 0. pendnla 

 Hudson. In profusion in a swamp behind the sandhills, about a 

 mile north of Courtown ; associated with this grew C. strigosa 

 Hudson, more plentiful than I had ever seen it before. — C. vesi- 

 caria L. Swamp by the Slaney below Macmine Castle, with 

 Leiicojum. 



Avena puhescens Hudson. On the coast south, of Ardamine ; 

 only noticed here. 



Poa trivialis L. var. ghibra Doell [KoeJeri Syme). Dry banks on 

 the coast about half-way between Greenore Point and Churchtown. 

 I did not see the type there. 



Festuca Mguros L. Near Wexford and Gorey. — F. arundinacea 

 Schreber. Near Churchtown. 



