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satisfactory conclusion could be arrived at. Anxious to settle the 
question, I wrote some time since to Mr. F. G. Lloyd, the well-known 
importer of Esparto Grass, who owns large tracts of land both in 
Algeria and Spain, and he kindly replies as follows :—‘‘ There is no 
difference between Esparto and Alfa. Alfa, or more correctly Halfa, 
is the Arabic for Espa, ani the. Esparto from Africa got that 
and Es 
botanically identical, and were only commercial distinctions, and that 
both were furnished by Macrochloa tenacissima, Kth., which is undoubt- 
e case flo peci i 
matter at all. But there 2 yet _— ig a tty grass, known in 
the trade as Albardine, which comes, I believe, chiefly from the 
neighbourhood of Barcelona; from a owtinle specimen and also from 
a photograph of a plant in flower kindly sent me by Mr. Lloyd, there 
remains no doubt but that Albardine is furnished by Zygewm Spartum. 
- si ig arab value is not more than a quarter "that of Esparto.— 
OHN JACK 
Prants or County Cork. ste re amygdaloides, Linn. This 
rR tes rath hitherto known to grow w only i in a single locality in 
e entire extent of a viz., under trees in Castle-Bernard Park, 
— Bandon, in this c unty. It was, therefore, very inte page = 
me to find it growing freely, i in a wood at Dunderrow, on the 
to the valley of the Bandon river.—A new station for another 
interesting species is Peafield, near Ballinadee, for Asplenium acutum, 
Bory.—Again in the wood at Dunderrow where £. od may 
grows, I found a grass rare in this county, Dhilium effusum.— 
add to these desultory notes that T noticed the beautiful Lioarte 
repens growing here and there on the banks of the Bandon river at 
points below Innoshannon, and indeed halfway or more between that 
village and Kinsall. ree very freely on slate refuse bordering 
the Ballinadee Creek.—A new station for ‘athe interesting species is 
one at Blind Harbour, near nmiyisere aN in the extreme west of this 
county, for the rare ie us) little some pie. A. Orontium. 
There, close to the water’s —e I found it growing in a potato- 
field, in a wild sequestered spot _ I was glad to — that 
datum in this county (another instanc a oe Englis 
ariel being extremely rare in d). With the Lycopodium 
e rare Cicendia filiformis. This was also found by Mr. 
Longfield far to the east of any station yet known in this county.—T. 
