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records Dlanthus Armeria from "two places near Castleton twelve 

 years ago, but one is now destroyed." Mr. P. Kalfe, of Laxey, has 

 sent me Manx specimens of the following, which are so far new 

 records for the isle : — Hypericum perforatum, Geum urbanum, Epilo- 

 hium hirsutmn, Veronica Anagallis, Leontodon aiitumnale. There are 

 still a good many common plants to be recorded for the island. I 

 am glad to say that some residents are showing an interest in the 

 Manx flora. — Arthur Bennett. 



SisYRiNCHiuM ANGusTiFOLiuM IN Co. CoRK. — In June of tliis year, 

 while staying at Coesheen, near Schull, Co. Cork, I found a small 

 colony of this species. The plants were growing a few inches from 

 the side of a very wild country road, on the margin of a bit of 

 waste land which sloped down to a stream ; they were few in 

 number, and almost hidden by a spray of bramble which drooped 

 over them. It is highly improbable that the plant can have been 

 other than wild, as the district is mountainous, very desolate, and 

 sparsely inhabited ; while the by-road beside which it grew is little 

 used, and quite remote from cultivation, even the nearest cottage 

 being at a considerable distance. As the plants were few, it is 

 probable that ^S'. an gusti folium may only recently be located there, 

 a view which is rendered the more likely by my failing to find any 

 other specimens, although we searched the neighbourhood. We 

 carefully left the colony undisturbed, and hope to find it increased 

 on our next visit. As this station is a considerable distance from 

 the two other spots in Ireland in which the plant has been recorded, 

 its occurrence at Coesheen is of interest. The plant was identified 

 for me by Prof. Johnson, of Dublin. — Lilian M. Swan. 



Carex Sadleri Linton in North Uist. — On a low ledge of rock 

 at the base of the North Lee Hill, on the side facing northwards 

 towards Lochmaddy Bay, I gathered on July 22nd last a Carex 

 which by its characters at once recalled to my mind the Rev. E. F. 

 Linton's description of his C. Sadleri in Journ. Bot. 1898, p. 41, &c. 

 Typical C. binervis was growing within a foot or two of the spot, 

 and though the two were very similar in habit and in most of their 

 characters, the dark brown spikelets and much narrower perigynium 

 of the one seemed to indicate at least a varietal difference between 

 the two plants. Mr. Linton, who has kindly examined the speci- 

 mens, writes, "without doubt C. Sadleri; a good extension." I had 

 no aneroid with me at the time, but the altitude could not have been 

 greater than 250 ft., and was probably less. After searching about 

 for a considerable time, the original tuft of eight or ten specimens 

 was all that I could find, though the plant is conspicuous at some 

 little distance by the rich dark colour of its spikelets. It may 

 probably grow in more abundance on some of the higher ledges. — 

 W. A. Shoolbred. 



