46 ERIOPHQRUM ALPINUM AND ACORUS CALAMUS. 
Obs. Mr. Baker has distributed in his Herb. Ros. Brit. n. 5 and 6, 
differin 
Fries in its leaves being glandulose below. 
(7b be concluded in next Number.) 
ERIOPIIOR UM 
Linn., FOUND IN IRELAND. 
CALA MUS, 
15 
December 6th, 1866, showed specimens of Eriophorim alpinwn, L., 
which had been found growing in considerable abundance on the north 
b lv " ill & 
margin of Gurthavabra Lake, three miles west of Millstreet, county 
Cork, last October, by H. J, Ryder, Esq. The specimens were sent 
to Dr. Moore by Mr. Sullivan, of the Queen's College, Cork, who re- 
ceived them from the discoverer, Mr. Ryder. Dr. Moore considered 
this the most interesting plant which has been added to the Irish flora 
for many years. Hitherto the only habitats known for it in the British 
Isles are two, both of which are in Scotland, one near Forfar, the other 
in Sutherlandshire. In the former it has disappeared, in consequence 
of the lakes being drained where it grew. The new Irish locality will, 
therefore, be looked on with much interest by British botanists. In 
Lapland and Norway it grow T s on low bogs and marshes, and in De 
Candolle's ' Botanicon Gallicum,' it is stated to grow in paludosis Vos- 
gesorum, Jurassi, Alptum, etc. The county Cork station is, therefore, 
intermediate, though the most westerly in Europe. It is also found 
in North America. Dr. Moore also stated that another plant of nearly 
equal interest had been discovered during the present year in the north 
of Ireland, the Sweet Flag, Acorns Calamus, L. The discovery of this 
plant is due to Mr. Stewart, of Belfast, who Lis of late years investi- 
gated the plants in his neighbourhood with much ability and diligence. 
Dr. Moore had seen the plant last September growing in great profu- 
sion in the Lurgan Canal, between Lisbum and Moira, where Mr. 
Stewart discovered it. Its principal habitats in the British Isles are 
the counties of Norfolk and Suffolk, but Mr. W. Wilson, the learned 
mycologist, had pointed it out to Dr. Moore in September of last 
on, in Lancashire. It is one of the plants 
which have hitherto been supposed not to have crossed the Irish Chan- 
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