292 PLANTS EXCLULEB, 



The Forth River plant was V. odorata, and no doubt the plants seen 

 at the other stations were the same. 



16. Viola lutea Hudson. 



Railway bank near Bloomfield ; Flor. Self. Camckfergus commons 

 {Ferguson), and sandhills at Newcastle {Dickie) ; Flor. Ulst. Shores of 

 Lough Neagh at Shane's Castle {3£oore) ; Cyh. Hib. 



V. lutea is a rare plant in Ireland, and there seem to be no reliable 

 northern stations for the true plant. The above quoted records should be 

 divided between V. tricolor and V. Curtisii. 



17. Polygrala calcarea Schultz. 



By the roadside on ascent to Divis Mountain from Ballygomartin 

 schoolhouse {Orr) ; Flor. Ulst. Cave Hill {Sind) ; Flor. Belf. 

 States of P. vulgaris. 



18. Polygala austrlaca Crantz. 



Rocky debris on Black Mountain ; Flor. List., Supp. 

 Like the preceding a form of F. vulgaris. 



19. Cerastium alplnum Linn. 



Sides of mountain rivulets about Glenarm, and Ballinleg ; Jr. Flor. 

 In Belfast Museum copy of Flora Hibernica there is a MS. note by Mr. 

 Whitla stating that G. alpinum grows abundantly on the left side of the 

 road from Larne to Glenarm, and that he pointed it out to Mackay in 

 1833. 



In both cases erroneously determined. 



20. Hypericum xnontanuin Linn. 



On Mallagh Hill in the County of Down, about eight miles east of Bel- 

 fast {Orr) ; Cijb. Hib. 



This plant has been published as a member of the Irish flora on the 

 sole authority of the very precise note above quoted, nevertheless the 

 record must be rejected for very good reasons. There is no Mallagh Hill 

 eight miles east of Belfast, but Mealough Hill (pronounced Malliagh) is 

 about five miles so\ith by east of Belfast. This small hill is no doubt 

 the place intended, and it has been repeatedly, but in vain, searched for 

 the plant in question. Petrological considerations also conflict decidedly 

 with the record. It is not to be credited that a limestone loving plant 

 would avoid all the great limestone areas of Ireland to settle down on the 

 grits and slates of the region east and southeast of Belfast, and this, 

 also, may be reckoned amongst the numerous errors published on the 

 same authority. 



