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really very plentiful. The place it grows in is often completely under 

 water, but happened to be moderately dry at tlie time we found it. It 

 was in full bloom — only a comparatively few unopened buds, and a good 

 many faded flowers." The spring of 1909 was an early one, and no doubt the 

 plant was out of flower when we looked for it here on the 30th of May ; at 

 any rate four people, all well acquainted with the appearance and habitat of 

 the plant — ourselves, ^Miss McArdle, and Dr. George Fogerty — spent a 

 whole morning searching the swamp without finding any trace of it. This 

 unsuccessful search shows, we think, how very easily the plant may be over- 

 looked, and also how little reliance can sometimes be placed on negative 

 evidence. 



The Kilbarry station is an extensive marsh covered with Phragmites and 

 other exclusively native plants. It is cbained by a tributary of the Suir. 

 During high spring-tides this stream (locally known as John's Pill) ovei-flows 

 its banks, flooding lai'ge tracts of marshy ground. Thus the conditions of 

 habitat here agree with those existing in the Slaney and Shannon stations. 

 Paludestrina confusa, which accompanies Lcv.cojv.m aestivv.ra in the Shannon, 

 is abundant here also. 



The Sno^vflake has also been found by the Clodagh Eiver, another tidal 

 tributary of the Suir. We were unable to visit this station ; but the Eev. 

 W. W. Flemyng, the finder, kindly sent us some blooms of the plant from 

 bulbs in his garden, brought in there from the wild station ; and they are the 

 true Lcucojum acstivum. Other cases of the transfer of this species from 

 marsh to garden have come under o\ir notice. Mr. Flemyng says there is 

 not much of the plant in this station ; that it was growing beside the river, 

 though its roots were not actually in the water ; and that the ordinary plants 

 that grow in such situations were associated with it. 



Early in 1909 we were informed of another station, discovered in 1897 by 

 Mrs. White, of Clouageera, Queen's Coimty. Under the direction of Mr. White 

 we ^'isited this locality in 'Ma.j last, and found that it is a large swamp by the 

 river Erkiua, near its junction with the Xore, about half a mile below the 

 village of Durrow. Here again the plant is abimdant in the midst of perfectly 

 natural surroundings ; for, though the river is not tidal, the mai'sh, at all 

 times very wet, is during floods completely inundated. Its associates in this 

 place are all native plants. Among them we noticed Hanunculus Lingua, 

 Caltha palvsti-is, Atujelico. si/lvcstiis, Menyanthes tnfoliata, Mentha hirsuta, 

 Sjparganiuni simplex, S. ramosum, Typha latifoUa, Scirpxis laev.stris ; various 

 sedges, including Carcce stvida &ndi C. nparia; Phalarisanindinacca, Phragmites 

 communis, &c. On inquiry we found that the Leucojum was known here for 

 at least forty years. Being so near the village, there are flower and vegetable 



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