52 SHORT NOTES. 
The Faroe inlends seem to come more naturally within our district, 
and it seems worth considering whether, as has been suggested, the 
a of these Islands are best dealt with in ‘ Floras’ including 
the Shetlands.—H. Gro 
New Irisx Rust.—Quite recently I submitted to Prof. Renee 
Saee : by Mr. 
Stew y 
constitute district 12 of the ‘ Cybele Hibernica.’ The results of his 
investigation proved of extreme interest, yielding at least six species 
itherto unrecorded from any part of Ireland. These were :— 
rhamnifolius W. & N., Blackhead, Co. Antrim; R. hirtifolius Mull. 
So sperpagee Kaltenb.), Knock, Co. Down, and Lagan Canal, near 
Belfast ; Grabowskii Weihe (carpinifolius Borr.), second es 
Lagan Canal, near Belfast, Co. Antrim ; R. Lejeunit Weihe, h 
between Dunadry and Tem a ego ag Co. Antrim; R. mucronu- 
latus Borr., Whiterock, Belfas a < trim ; R. foliors Agia 
qu arries, Belfa 06: ntrim, and Newt wionbreda, ni Dowii At 
oe Tate’s Sak recorded from this district in ‘ Cybele,’ p p. 90, is 
B. macrophyllus W. & N.—see i Rubi,’ p. 157). &. 
Salteri Bab. (typical) occurs in a wood at Shrigley, Co. Down 
var. B. ate Blox., as found frequently in the Co. nos! by the 
late Dr. David Moore. . carpinifolius W. ., first recorded 
from the North- East by myself in July last (vide J ourn. Bot., 1882, 
p 
on 
R. villicaulis W. & H., for which only a single locality is given in 
the ‘Cybele,’ has also comparatively wide range in Co. Antrim, 
and likewise extends into Co. Down.—Txos. H. Corry. 
warded the same, pronounces them to be Dasya venusta, and this 
opinion is corroborated by Mrs. Merrifield ; 3280 ~ I think there 
can be no doubt about the correctness of the name. Mr. Grattan 
mentions in his ‘ British Marine Algw’ that shite plant is occasion- 
ally cast ashore on the coast of Sussex, and Mr. Holmes informs 
me that he finds in Mrs. J. KE. Gray’s peeooraina in the Cambridge 
Museum specimens of the same plant, gathered at Swanage and 
Studland in August, 1861. I think theirs that we may now 
fairly claim the plant as a British species. Mr. Grattan says it is 
