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ill Dr. Fogerty's photographs, I'kxte XXI., fig.s. 1 & 2) — an extensive brackish 

 marsh co^'ercd with Phragmites, Carex riparia, Cladmm Marisctis, and otiier 

 truly native estuarine plants. The only garden near the place is that 

 connected with the castle on the opposite side of the railway line. This we 

 searched, and found no trace of Leueojum in cultivation there, nor was the 

 plant known to the proprietor or his gardener. 



In the " Journal of Botany " for October, 1908, Mr. Marshall reiterates 

 his opinion that Zcucojum acstimm is native in Ireland, and cites Miss Knowles 

 as agreeing with him. In the same note he states that the plant has l)een 

 found over a wide area in Connaught, which remark is rather misleading, as 

 Co. Clare, to which he evidently refers, though west of the Shannon, belongs 

 to Munster. 



The next discovery of the Snowflake in Ireland was made Ijy 

 Mr. E. D. O'Brien, who in 1897 found it growing in the meadows and 

 among willows at Parteen, Co. Clare, from the railway bridge to the Lax 

 Weir, about two miles north of Limerick ; and up the creek at Whitehall as 

 far as the tide goes. The following spring Mr. O'Brien got it on tlie 

 Limerick shore above the railway bridge, and since then its known range 

 along the Shannon has been greatly extended. It occurs among the willows 

 on the bank of the Abbey Eiver, and on King's Island. These stations are 

 all above Limerick. Below the city it is found hei'e and there among the 

 rushes on the south bank of the river, from below the docks to the mouth of 

 the Ballyuaclough Eiver, where it is exceedingly aljundant ; also sparingly 

 along the marshy banks of that stream for half a mile towards Ballinacurra. 

 On tlie north bank of the Shannon we have seen it far out on the muddy 

 shore at Coonagh Creek. Further down, the Shannon has not yet been 

 explored ; but so far we see that it occurs in almost every suitable spot 

 along a stretch of sis miles. Further west, on the Maigue, an important 

 tributary of the Shannon, it grows among willows near Adare, and also in 

 quantity on unembanked land by the Greanagh Eiver from Curragh Bridge 

 to where it joins the Maigue. 



The accompan}-ing photographs (Plate XXIL, figs. 1 & 2), taken by 

 Dr. George Fogerty, give an excellent idea of the plant in its natiu'al habitat on 

 the Hat banks of the Ballyuaclough estuary, where it grows most luxuriantly ; 

 thousands of individual plants and small clumps, and several large clumps, 

 measuring 4 and 5 feet across, are scattered over an area of several acres, 

 associated with C'altha palitstris, Cochlcaria awjlka, Lychnis Flos-cuculi, 

 Oenanthe crocata, Aiigeliea sylvestris, Myosotis palusti-is, Aster Tripolium, Rumex 

 crispiis, Orchis incarimta, Ekochctris palmtris, Scirpm lacustris, Carex riparia, 

 C. paludosa, Phragmites, and otlior s]iecies cliaracteristic of such situations. 



