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obtusis margine obscure undulatis glabris nitentibus, spicis 

 terminalibus cylindricis foliis brevioribus, bracteis ovatis apiculatis 

 concavis coriaceis levissime puberulis secus dimidium superius crispe 

 ciliatis, calycis laciniis bractese consimilibus, corolla labio 5-lobo 

 lobis oblongis, filamentis gracilibus glabris, antheris longe villosis, 

 ovarii loculis 2-ovulatis. 



Hab. Distr. Pungo Andongo in sylvaticis de Barranco de 

 Songue. (Nos. 5100, 5087.) 



Arbuscula 12-15 pedalis. Folia ad 17'0 cm. long, et 6-5 cm, 

 lat. Spicae fere 8-0 cm. long. Corolla albo violascens, extus 

 appresse sericeo-pubescens. 



A, Kirkii, T. Anders., cui planta nostra proxima, ab ea 

 discedit foliis majoribus, spicis abbreviates, bracteis longioribus 

 minus firmis, antheris minus villosis, aliisque notis. 



(To be continued). 



TRIFOLIUM MARITIMUM IN IRELAND. 



By A. G. More, F.L.S., M.R.I.A. 



On the 18th of June last, while travelling by car from Lahinch, 

 County Clare, towards the cliffs of Moher, I noticed a pink-flowered 

 Trifolium growing in a large patch along the edge of a field bor- 

 dering upon the road, near the eastern end of the village of Lis- 

 cannor, and close to the sea-shore. It was growing plentifully 

 about the border of a field reserved for hay ; and at the time, I 

 must confess, I felt some doubt as to whether it might have been 

 introduced with agricultural seeds. But, though I had not time 

 to search the adjoining sea-shore, I am not aware that Irifoluini 

 maritimum has ever been used as an agricultural clover ; and 1 

 believe the balance inclines in favour of the nativity of the plant, 



which, nnmi ««.min<.t.i ft n v>vnvAd fcn be Trifolium mantimum, Unas. 



-n-» an Jirisn plant, i. manmnum uta.», ^"5 "o^ ~ — •--■ 



by Wade ('Plant© Rariores,' 1804) as "found in a field near 

 Kilbarrick Church-yard, road to Howth, flowering m August. 

 In his • Catalogue of Rare Plants " (1806) Mackay gives two addi- 

 tional localities, viz., " On Lambay ; Mr. Underwood, and At tne 

 lower end of the North Wall, first noticed there by W. »■ 

 Kennedy in 1806;" but, in his general ' Catalogue of the Wants 

 found in Ireland " (1825) he mentions only « sandy fields and 

 ditch-banks near Kilbarrick Church. 'The Insk Flora (1838), 

 gives the single station of " salt marshes, in the Island ot La ^ a f' 

 and in « Flora Hibemica ' (1836), Mackay repeats Dr. Wade s 



original l«.Vi. .- (i ,i-„ ™^,r fiaWs and ditch-banks on tne 



original locality as "dry sandy fields and ^h-banks on tn 

 coast, near Kilbarrick Church, rather sparingly, adding, ^ said t 

 have been found in salt marshes in the Island of Lamba\ . 



T -1 ... ._. . - t T- 1^« IhA nhnir, 1J] 



In both localities. Kil 



-t-xi uuuii localities, luioarricK h,uu j-k*x^^ v > - — t x . 



smce been searched for without success. No specimen «*«** 

 * may be observed that the sandy banks about Kilbarrick are moie 



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