70 BOTANICAL EXCURSIONS IN WEST DONEGAL. 
S. retroflexa Hort. should stand as ‘“‘ ex D. Don in Trans. Linn. Soe. 
xiii. 450.” 
*9§. rivularis Townson, Trav. in cei 487 (1793) = carpatica. 
i ve Schleicheri D, Don ex G. Don in Loud. Hort. Brit. 176 = 
tellaris.”” This name should be deleted ; G. Don (i. c.) merely 
ae it, as D. Don had done previously, as a ede ty of 
stellaris. | 
*8. sedioides D. Don, 1. c. 408 (sphalm. ?) = sedoides. 
8. Wag ci Mackay should stand as ‘‘ex D. Don in Trans. Linn. 
Cc. xiii. 852.” 
8. ane — Don, J.c. 854. S. Geum Pursh, Fl. Amer. Sept. i. 
811, non L. The type represented by these names is a plant in 
Herb. Banks collected in Sledge Island, on ies oor west coast 
of America, by David Nelson. The form is not taken 
up by Engler, The plant is no doubt sonnet eaferrod by Mr. 
B. D. Jackson to S. cuneifolia L., but is a somewhat extreme 
form of that variable Lot remarkable for its eno branched 
spicate panicle. This seems to be the S. Geum of re rican 
authors, but cannot be Ao aati with that ioe, Chih, so 
far as I know, is confined to the Old World. Torrey and Gray 
adopt the name S. astivalis Fischer for ar American plant, but 
I follow Engler in taking up S. cunetfolia L 
S. verna Hort. should stand as ‘‘ ex Haw. Saxifr. Enum. 9 (1821). sig 
BOTANICAL EXCURSIONS IN WEST DONEGAL, 1898. 
By H. ©. Harr, F.L.S., &e. 
On the 17th ay I crossed the Moross ferry into aes district 
known as the ‘“‘ Between Waters,” that part of Fan t lying 
between Mulroy Lake proper and its eastern arm eaanthe 
north. The ferry is interesting as being close to a site for a rare 
shell, Lima hians, and for the great beds of Zostera marina, pro- 
fusely adorned with a species of Sagartia (sea anemone), which is 
determined to claim a botanical character, se it is called here 
** nettles,” and they say it stings tender parts of he body. Thence 
r crossed the hills Leat and Truskmore, on the sori of which is 
a good growth of Pyrola media, and made m 
teresting-lookin ng sandhills yielded nothing. A little further on, on 
