15fi BKIZOPYRUM SICULUM, FOUND IN IRELAND. 
mucTi we may "be inclined to submit to the dictum of a master ia 
science, I am forced to doubt its correctness in tliis case. I have never 
had reason to believe that any one of the observant field-botanists of 
Europe has seen any proof of the structure in question resulting from 
soil and situation, and must be allowed to disbelieve it until proof is 
adduced. 
BRIZOPYRUM SICULUM, EOUND IN IRELAND. 
I wish it to be put on record that Brizopyrum Sicidnm, Link, was 
found growing in some quantity "by roadsides in Co. Kerry" some 
years ago, but not identified until lately. Mrs. Hill, who found it, 
sent specimens to Mr. Isaac Carroll, of Cork, who at once, knowing it 
to be alien to the British and Irish floras, sent specimens to me; and 
she also sent it to Professor Babington, of Cambridge, 
The latter gentleman ascertained that it was the Brizopyrum Siculumy 
and Colonel Munro, wlio is so great an authority on Grasses, has also 
favoured me with his opinion ; and observes, that " the stipitate ova- 
rium, glabrous at the apex, separates it from any genus of Hoi^deaceiS ;" 
and further, he considers " the glandular hairs at the base of the lower 
palea, a very good character in BrizopyrmnP 
It is very closely allied to our old Triticum loliaceum. Smith, Cata- 
podinm loliaceuni, Link, wlio at one time placed it in the latter genus. 
I am unable to offer an opinion whether it occurred accidentally, or 
whether it grew naturally where Mrs. Hill found it. I shall, however, 
observe, that its geographical range in Europe is something similar to 
that of the little Orchid Neotinea intada, Eeich., which was discovered 
in the South of Ireland last year; consequently, it is just possible it 
may be an extreme outlyer from the principal stock, which we know to 
be the case with other plants in the southern parts of this country. 
D. Moore. 
[The name of Brizopyrum was given to the genus by Link, in his 
Hortus Eegius Botan. Berolin., vol. i. p. 159, in 1827 ; but in 1822 
Dumortier gave the name of Bemazeria to the same genus, in his ' Ob- 
servations Botaniques/ p. 26. It is clear, therefore, that Mrs. Hill's 
plant must bear the name of Bemazeria Sicula, Dum., which Willkomm 
and Lange have followed him in using in their valuable Prodromus Fl. 
Hispanicre, voh i. p. 112,— C. C. Babington.] 
