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Queensland,' as recorded by Mr. C. Prentice, infTrimen's Journal of Bo- 

 tany, Series 2, vol. i., p. 22 (1872) ; and considering that in England also 

 it has lately become -well establisbed in Hampsbire, -we may well hesi- 

 tate to accept the " Blue-eyed grass " of Canada as an indubitable native 

 of Ireland. If the localitj' in which it occurs is nearly as restricted as 

 that of the S. piranthes at Berehaven, at least the Orchid lies, like all 

 the other American and Iberian plants, quite close to the shore, and is 

 a species of whose introduction or rapid extension we have not any ex- 

 perience. 



\Iris foitidissima (Linn.) A very doubtful native of Ireland, where 

 it seems to have been formerly much cultivated, nor are we acquainted 

 with any locality where it grows in a really natural manner. 



Asparagus offioinalis (Linn.) — 4. Sandhills in Ballyteigue Bay, 

 "Wexford; Mr. Lewis. 



\Allium, Babingtonii (Borr.) — 6. In all three of the Islands of Aran ; 

 H. C. Hart. 



A. vineale (Linn.) — 3. Banks of the Wore, near Inistioge, Kilkenny ; 

 Tighe. 



Simethis lioolor (Kunth). — 1. Certainly indigenous at Derrynane, 

 where it grows on boggy, heathy, and turfy slopes, far away from the 

 Abbey ruins, amidst heather and earioes, etc. 



Eriooaulon septangulare (With.) — 1. Bog-holes at north end of 

 Lough Carragh, Kerry ; Dr. Battersby. First found by Dr. Wade in 

 1801, as shown by a letter from him to Smith, in the Library of the 

 Linnsean Society. In the Cloonee, not Cromeen, Lakes, Kerry. 



Juncus acutus (Linn.) — 1. Plentiful in the warren at Bosscarberj^ 

 and a few plants on Castlefreke sands ; Eev. T. Allin. — 4. At the mouth 

 of the Kilgorman river, north of Courtown, Wexford, and on sandhills 

 thence to Arklow ; also north of Arklow in Brittas Bay, and near Mizen 

 Head, etc., as far as Seapark House, where both it and Equisetum 

 Moorei appear to cease. Flowers early in June, several weeks before J. 



J. oUusiforus (Ehrh.) — 1. Near Dingle, Kerry ; D. M. District 8. 

 Boggy slopes at foot of Urrisbeg Mountain, Connemara ; A. Gr. M. 



J.squarrosm{'Lina.) District 10. Sperrin Mountain, Tyrone; S. 

 A. Stewart. Ascends to 2700 feet on Mangerton, and to 3300 on Carn 

 Tual ; A. G. M. 



Luzula sylvatica (Bich.) Eeaches 3400 feet on Carn Tual ; A. G-. M. 



Butomus umUllatus (Linn.) — 2. Ballyootton Bog, and abundant 

 near Buttevant ; Eev. T. Allin.— 7. In the Brosna at Parsonstown ; M. 

 Dowd. 



Sparganium natans (Linn, et Fries). — 11. Lakes near Keel, Done- 

 gal ; H. C. Hart. 



S. minimum (Fries). District 7. Near Parsonstown ; M. Dowd. 

 District 10. In a lake near Drum, Clones; J. Bain. 



*Aeorus Calamus (Linn.) District 12. Lakes at Hillsborough and 

 Ballinahinch, Down, but most probably planted there; Templeton. 

 Profusely on both sides of the Lagan, for six or seven miles between 



