Beta.] CHENOPODiACE^. 247 



[C polyspermum (Linn.) is said to have been found 

 near Dublin (Wade) and has once or twice been gathered 

 near Cork, where Mr. Carroll believes that it was casually 

 introduced. A specimen sent to us under this name from 

 Belfast is Beta maritimaJ] 



BETA Linn. 

 1. B. maritima (Linn.) — Sea Beet. 

 Districts 12-456-89- 11 12 

 Lat. 51°-56P. Coasts of aU Ireland. 

 Type in Great Britain, British, inclining to English. 



Sea-shores ; not unfrequent. FL July to September. 



This is described by Dr. Dickie as very rare in Ulster, but 

 we have seen specimens from many parts of Antrim and 

 Donegal. 



SALICORNIA Linn, 

 1. S. hertaaoea (Linn.) 

 Districts 12-45&-89-1112 

 Lat. 51°-56°. Coasts of all L-eland. 

 Type in Great Britain, British. 



Muddy sea-shores ; common. FL August to September, 



The form S. proewmbens (Smith) is also frequent. 



Obs. — S. radicans (Sm.) is included in ^' Flora Hibemica " 

 with the Ipcality of "strand at Narrow-water, below Newry," 

 but we fear that some form of S. herhacea has been gathered 

 in this and other Wsh stations given for S. radicams, A 

 specimen sent to us from " Cherry Valley," near Belfast, is 

 certainly nothing more than S. herhacea ; and although the 

 " S. radicans" of Dr. Mackay's Herbarium is correctly 

 named, we have not succeeded in finding it in the alleged 

 locality of " sea-shore, Howth." We have before remarked 

 on the unsatisfactory manner in which this collection is 

 arranged and labelled ; it is well known that the greater 

 part of the specimens were not gathered wild, but were 

 inserted only to represent the species, and the localities 

 written on the labels are hot necessarily those of the speci- 

 mens, being for the most part merely copied from the "Flora 

 Hibemica," or set down from remembrance of where the 

 qiecies was believed to have been gathered. 



