182 EQUISETACE^. ' 



5. E. llmosum Linn. 



Ditches, marshes, and lake margins — common. Fl. May and June. 



Var. /5 E. fluviatilb Linn. 

 Common in similar places as occupied hy this tj-pe. 



6. E. palustre Linn. 



Marshes, and hanks of streams —common from sea level to 1000 feet, 

 n. June and July. 



7. E. hyemale Linn, Dutch El'Sh. 



"Wet rocky places, and marshy thickets — rare. Fl. June and JiJy. 

 Ascends from sea level to nearly 1000 feet. 



Down — Marshy, and shady spots among the sandhills at Dundrum ; Flor. 



Uht. (must he very rare at this place, as no other botanist has 



succeeded in finding it there). 

 Antrim — By the side of Lough Xeagh near Shane's Castle ; Templcton. 



Banks of Forth Eiver at Springfield ; Flor. Belf. (not found 



there now). Glenarm, and many glens in Antrim ; Cyb. Rib. 



Wet rocky places both above and below the waterfall in Crow 



Glen, and" by a small stream which flows down from above 



Hannahsto"\^Ti to Colin Glen ; S.A.S. 

 Deny— AN^oods at Mountsandel above Coleraine, and in woods by the 



Agivey Kiver; D.M. 



8i E. tracbyodon A. Braun. 

 "Wet rocks — very rare. Fl. mid. Jime till end of July. 

 Antrim — Moist rocks near the head of Colin Glen ; Templeton^ 1793. (as 

 E. hyemale). Above Colin Glen by the stream that flows 

 down from Divis, and also in Glenarm Glen ; F. Whitla. 

 Glens near Glenarm ; Cyb. Hib. Still found on the wet rocks 

 by the waterfall at upper end of Colin Glen ; Eds. 

 Derry — In Ballyharrigan Glen near Dungiven ; Cyb. Hib. 



First found in Ireland by Mr. Templeton, but fii'st recognised as dis- 

 tinct by Mr. F. "NVhitla, before 1830. This plant was pointed out, to 

 the author of Flora Hibernica, at the Colin Glen station, and also at 

 Glenarm, by Mr. Whitla in 1833. 



9. E. varleg-atuzn Schleich. 



Sandy seashores- extremely rare. Fl. July and Aug. (Bab. Manual). 

 Derry — Sandy shore at Benone in MagiUigan ; D.M. 



