4 Hurst, TJie Range of Dioth candidissima. 



botanist, has searched for the plant at Tramore in several 

 recent years, but without success. Mr. John Waddy 

 seems to have been the first to notice it on the bar at 

 Lady's Island Lake, Wexford, and to have communicated 

 his discovery to Syme, who published it in the third 

 edition of English Botany. The Cybele gives " near 

 Tacumsin Lake" as G. J. Kinahan's station in 1876, and 

 lastly comes Hart, in 1883, with "sandy coast below 

 Lady's Island Lake and Tacumsin Lake, extending for 

 about an English mile." This last-named record induced 

 me to make a special journey to Wexford, and, after a 

 stay there of several weeks, I am able to give the following 

 details of its stations, habitat, &c. 



It occurs at the extreme south-eastern end of the 

 county ; the most westerly station is on the bar which 

 separates Lake Tacumsin from the sea, just south of Little 

 Ligginstown Island, a tiny islet of Lake Tacumsin marked 

 on the one-inch Ordnance Map ; the most easterly station 

 was close to Carnsore Point, near the spot where the 

 granite crops out and renders the coast untenable by the 

 sand-loving Diotis. These two stations were separated by 

 about three and a half miles of sandy coast, and, pro- 

 ceeding from west to east, the plant was distributed as 

 follows. For a little over a quarter of a mile at the 

 eastern extremity of the bar which separates Lake 

 Tacumsin from the sea it grew sparingly, and the plants 

 were below the average size. They also appeared to 

 flower earlier and more sparsely than the plants of the 

 Lady's Island Lake, as their flower heads were ripe while 

 the lake plants were still in luxuriant bloom. It grows 

 on the bar at Lake Tacumsin among Ammophila 

 arundinacea, and chiefly on the landward side, as is also 

 the case at Lady's Island Lake. I did not meet with any 

 Diotis on the small strip of coast which separates the two 



