32 Mr. J. Ball's Botanical Notes of a Tour in Ireland. 



raria, first found, I believe in Kerry, by Miss Hutchins. Near 

 this I likewise found Fedia auricula, and, which is quite as 

 rare in Ireland, Lepidium campestre, the place of which plant, 

 so familiar to the English botanist, is almost always filled in 

 this island by L. Smithii. I may mention that the distinctive 

 character drawn from the smoothness of the capsule in L. 

 Smithii, though very general,, cannot be relied upon, the only 

 constant character being, as 1 believe, the comparative length 

 of the styles. At Jonesboro', near Dundalk, I observed a 

 white-flowered variety of Galeopsis Tetrahit, the same I believe 

 with the var. ^ pubescens of Henslow's Catalogue of British 

 Plants ; it has the leaves of a more acutely lanceolate form, and 

 the whole plant has a softer and more abundant pubescence. 

 I may here mention that near Newcastle in the county 

 Down, the rare Achillea tomentosa has been found by Miss 

 Keow^n. Sir J. E. Smith mentions his having received this 

 plant fi:'om Ireland, but no station has before been made known 

 for it in that country. The neighbourhood of Belfast is pe- 

 culiarly rich in botanical productions, to the stations for many 

 of which I was directed by my friend Professor Brj^ce. I may 

 mention some additional objects of interest which have not, I 

 believe, been previously noticed. On the south side of the bay, 

 between Belfast and Hollywood, I found Atriplex littoralis, 

 Blysmus rufus, and Scirpus glaucus. By the side of a sandy 

 lane, to the right of the road to Hollywood, I remarked a sin- 

 gular straggling variety of Viola lutea, which plant is very 

 rare in Ireland. Here also may be found the Rosa Hibernica, 

 which has become very scarce in this neighbourhood. Upon 

 that interesting botanical station the Cave Hill, I found a late 

 single-flowered variety of Saxifraga hypnoides, the flowers of 

 which w^ere mostly sessile upon the extremities of the procum- 

 bent shoots; some, which had elongated flower stalks, appeared 

 identical with the form described by Smith under the name 

 of elongella : together with this, upon the south side of the 

 hill, 1 found the Alchemilla vulgaris (B minor (A. hybrida, 

 Pers.) ; it appears to differ in nothing from a but in its small 

 size and dense white spreading pubescence, which gives it a 

 hoary appearance. The finest specimens of the rare Orobanche 

 rubra (some of them nearly a foot in height) are to be found 



