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Discovery of Simethis bicolor in Ireland. (Communicated by 

 Hewett C. Watson, Esq.) 



Perhaps the Editor of the ' Phy tologist ' will allow me to give ad- 

 ditional circulation to an interesting fact, lately announced in the 

 ' London Journal of Botany,' but likely to be overlooked by many 

 botanists ; since it is mentioned only incidentally in a paper on 

 another subject, and has not found place in the Index of the volume 

 in which it was announced. I allude to the discovery of Simethis 

 bicolor in Ireland. According to Dr. Harvey, this plant, so lately 

 first discovered in England, " has been found by Mr. Thaddeus 

 O'Mahony, growing in a perfectly wild situation on hills near Derry- 

 nane Abbey, the seat of the O'Connells. The hills where this plant 

 grows have probably never been turned up, and the plant has certainly 

 never been cultivated in a neighbouring garden. A specimen agreeing 

 in all respects with a Portuguese one in the University Herbarium, 

 was sent to me in June last." (' London Journal of Botany,' vol. vii., 

 p. 571). Hewett C. Watson. 



Thames Ditton, February 4, 1849. 



Occurrence of Doronicum plantagineum at Shooter's Hill. 

 By George Luxford, Esq. 



About the middle of May, 1848, while out on an excursion with 

 my botanical class, I had the pleasure of finding Doronicum planta- 

 gineum, in considerable plenty and in full flower, in a wood at the 

 back of Shooter's Hill, Kent. 



From the high road to Dartford, at the top of the hill, and almost 

 directly opposite the Bull Inn, a lane leads off to the right, through a 

 wood, I believe West Wood ; the plant was growing to the left of 

 this lane among the trees, and in situations where intruders will pro- 

 bably be civilly informed by a keeper that they are trespassing on the 

 private property of the Crown. 



About a week afterwards a friend found the Doronicum growing 

 plentifully in a wood nearer Chiselhurst. I do not know the exact 

 locality. Geo. Luxford. 



East Temple Chambers, Fleet St., 

 February 11, 1849. 



