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stated that it is extinct in Alderney, where it was found 

 by Babington sixty years ago, at Braye Bay. When 

 Syme was writing the sixth volume of the third edition of 

 Sowerb/s English Botany (in 1866), he reported it as 

 abundant on the shores of St. Ouen's Bay, Jersey, but 

 Mr. John Piquet, of St. Heliers, tells me that it is extinct 

 there ; it used to be found near Kemp's Tower, in St. 

 Ouen's Bay, but the boulders and debris thrown up by the 

 sea have exterminated it. The superb patch of Dianthus 

 gallicus is not far away from this station, but I could see 

 no trace of Diotis. 



Turning now to Ireland, I began two years ago to 

 make inquiries as to its occurrence there, and wrote to a 

 dozen Irish botanists for information regarding the plant. 

 They nearly all quoted Mr. H. Chichester Hart's station 

 for it in county Wexford, in 1883, but none of them could 

 tell me whether it still grew there, nor did they seem to 

 have visited the station ; no English botanist is known to 

 have been there for a very long time, and on the spot I 

 could only hear of one Irish botanist who had been there 

 once or twice in recent years. In the Proceedings of the 

 Royal IrisJi Academy, 3rd Series, Vol. VII. (1901), p. 174 

 (also issued separately as Irish Topographical Botany), the 

 record for County Kerry is characterised as " dubious." 

 The second edition of the Cybele Hibernica (1898), pp. 

 181, 182, records it as a plant of districts II. (Waterford) 

 and IV. (Wexford). It was first reported as an Irish 

 plant by G. J. Allman, who found it near Dungannon, 

 Waterford, in 1845 ; and its last record for the same 

 county is " among boulders on the strand at Tramore," by 

 Carroll, in 1854. 



Mr. Lloyd Praeger tells me that, to his knowledge, it 

 has not been seen in either of its Waterford stations for 

 half a century. Mr. Phillips, the best Irish southern 



