308 SHORT NOTES AND QUERIES. 
SHORT NOTES AND QUERIES. 
A New Tnisi Locatiry For SprrantHes Romanzovrana.—During 
a recent excursion in the west of the county of Cork, while examining 
some marshy ground that sloped gently upward from the edge of a small 
bog, a plant caught my eye, apparently a a satiate evidently not 
8. ade mnalis. én approaching more closely to examine it, you 
judge of my su and gratification at perceiving that 1 had lighted 
mn the veritable Spirant omanzoviana, supposed ever since its 
discovery (now sixty-three years ago) to be confined to a narrow strip 
of m and on t gin st ocean,” near the 
mote village of Castletown, preion further search showed 
several p ants growing 0 amp grass near the edge of the 
™m ; a fe , Were seen a little higher up where, owing to the 
slope, the ground was dryer. The plant was passing out of flower (it was 
. the first week of September), but capable of the most exact verifica- 
tion, as you may judge from the accompanying'specimen. It grew some- 
times singly, and sometimes in little clusters of 3 to 5 plants, resembling 
inthis Spiranthes autumnalis. Unfortunately the time at my disposal was 
limited,jbut I traced the plant in the next field, though more sparingly ; 
beyond this the ground ceased to be favourable to its growth. Pro- 
bably fully thirty plants were seen in the two small fields. As nothing 
but its extionie remoteness has pr — the extirpation of this mo 
rare and interesting species at Bearhaven, I deem it absolutely neces- 
sary to decline publishing any more eos details of the new 
locality than — Bandon and Dunnanway. I quite 
inland, at least sev om the in a_ straight 
miles 
line. An interesting caiiion oe has the Spiranthes reached this new 
station—a lonely upland glen— from Bearhaven? If so, are there no 
tati 
rs 
n ut if the Spiranthes has travelled inward from Bear- 
haven, then, o to the peculiar conformation of th u its 
to find the plant in some intervening station or stations. Now no trace 
of the Spiranthes has been seen by the many accurate observers who 
have searched the wide tract lying between Bearhaven and the new 
ocality.—T. ALIN. 
A Porsonovs Rupsecxta.—A plant sent to Dr. Vasey as having 
caused the death of hogs in Oregon, Missouri, proved to be Rudbeckia 
ey .—(Monthly Boke of Agriculture, United States, 1872, 
OTENTILLA FR 
Comal of Agricn alture, 1872, p. 506, Mr. T. S. Gold, of West 
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and it 3 is the worst plant we ha It is vastly more injurious than 
- the Canada Thistle or Daisy. Scarcely known fifty years ago, it now 
covers, to the exclusion of everything else, thousands of acres in North- 
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