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SHORT NOTES. 



Rubus Chatvlemorus as an Irish Plant. — Since first recorded by 

 Prof. E. Murphy in Loudon's Magazine of Natural History (vol. i. 

 p. 436, 1829), this alpine bramble has not been gathered in Ireland 

 by any other botanist. Search has been made by two excellent 

 observers, Mr. H. C. Hart and Mr. S. A. Stewart, but hitherto this 

 most interesting plant has escaped the eyes of two of the most 

 practical and skilful of our field botanists. In view of the ap- 

 proaching publication of a second edition of Cybde Hibemica, I will 

 now recapitulate all that I know about the locality given in Mr. 

 Murphy's paper, and in Mackay's Flora Hibemica. In Loudon's 

 Magazine (1829) the station is given as " Plentiful on Glen-Garro 

 Mountain, Tyrone." In Flora Hibemica (1836), Mackay says, " On a 

 mountain in the Stranagabrally range, Co. Tyrone." (It is not 

 mentioned in the Irish Flora, 1833.) Prof. E. Murphy, writing to 

 us in 1864, says, u Seen by me, in company with Admiral Jones 

 (then Captain Jones), in 1826, on a mountain-top not far from Dart 

 Mountain, over which the boundary-line separating Tyrone from 

 Londonderry runs ; it was very abundant, and in flower when we saw 

 it." Admiral Jones himself (1865), in an annotated copy of 

 Mackay's Catalogue of 1825, writes, " On a mountain west of Dart. 

 I cannot give any nearer to the locality. Mr. Murphy and I were 

 covered by a wet fog at the time. We were by way of walking from 

 Mr. Kennedy's Lodge at (I think) Lough Ash to Dart." Thus the 

 matter remains. It will be well to remember that Admiral Jones 

 was, for many years before 1865, accustomed to visit Braemar and 

 the Aberdeenshire Highlands, with the object of collecting lichens; 

 and he must have been familiar with Rubus Chanurmorus in its 

 native habitat in Braemar, where it is abundant ; and neither did 

 he nor Prof. Murphy in their letters vary at all from their first 

 identification. It is, however, to be regretted that R. Chawa>>twrus 

 has not been gathered in Ireland since the year 1829 ; and hence 

 doubts have been freely expressed as to the correct identification, 

 which renders it the more desirable that a fresh effort should 

 be made to settle a question so interesting to Irish botanists. 

 That any other species should have been mistaken for it, whether 

 Alchemilla vulgaris or Rubus saxatUis, seems extremely unlikely. 



A. G. More* 



New Wilts Plants. — Ranunculus tripartitus b. intermedins 

 (Knaf.). 5. Hamptworth Common. — Mt/osotis repem D. Don. 

 5. Bramshaw. Both discovered by E. J. Tatum, Esq., and 

 confirmed. — T. A. Preston. 



East Biding Records. — The following records are worthy of 

 special notice. Both were made by my friend, Mr. B. B. Le Tall, 

 M.A., of the Bootham School, York. The identifications have been 

 confirmed by Mr. Arthur Bennett, F.L.S. I take them from the 

 Report for 1890 of the School Natural History, Literary, and Poly- 

 technic Society, which — like those for other years — possesses much 

 interest, as showing the pains- taken and methods adopted at the 



