Johnson and Knowles — The Levinge Herbarium. 129 



"Matricaria inodora, Linn., var. maritima, Linn. Cliffs of 

 Moher, County Clare, June 23, 1891 ; also at Port- 

 marnock, County Dublin, September 13, 1888. Cyb. 2, 

 "Throughout Ireland/' "Jf. maritima, Linn., as under- 

 stood by British botanists, has not yet been ascertained 

 to occur in Ireland." Top. Bot., "M. inodora, divisions 

 all, common." [Of the two sheets of specimens in the 

 Levinge collection, the one from Portmarnock, County 

 Dublin, shows ripe heads. The fruits are not those of 

 typical M. inodora, Linn., but agree with those of true 

 maritima according to Coste's description (Flore de la 

 France). The specimens from County Clare have not 

 heads ripe enough to allow one to use the characters of the 

 fruits, but the plants agree in habit with the Portmarnock 

 specimens. Comparison with specimens of M. inodora, Linn., 

 var. salina, Bab., both in fruit and habit, suggests fusion of 

 the varieties maritima and salina under one name. — T. J.] 



Senecio sylvaticus, Linn. Lisclogher Bog, Aug. 19, 1888. Top. 

 Bot., " Strongly calcifuge, and in the Central Plain chiefly 

 on dry bog-banks. Not a common species in any of the 

 divisions." 



Arctium minus, Bernh. Knock Drin, Westmeath, Aug., 1888. 

 Top. Bot., "Westmeath, Moate, 1899— P." "Probably 

 common over the greater portion of Ireland, but undoubtedly 

 rare in the north." 



x Tragopogon pratense, Linn., var. minor (Fries). Knock Drin, 

 County Westmeath, May 8, 1895. Cyb. 2, " Southern half 

 of Ireland. Both the type and the var. minor are perhaps 

 equally frequent in Ireland, but have not been sufficiently 

 discriminated." The specimen shows the fungus Cystopus 

 Tragopogonis, Pers. 



VACCINIACE^l. 



Schollera Occy coccus, Both, shows JExobasidium vaccinice, Woron. 

 (as recorded in Irish Naturalist, 1894, page 100), a fungus 

 causing a gall-like disease. According to Tubeuf (Pflanzen- 

 krankheiten), Eostrup calls the fungus Exobasidium 

 occycocci. 



