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with Mertensia maritima. It has numerous persicae large lower 
leaves, an inch in width and from an inch to an inch and a 
length. The usual tex) in Ireland is destitute ee these. 
Arenaria serpyllifolia L.—Local, W. EK. H. Greencastle. 
Stellaria media as Holostea t. 
S. graminea Li, Abundant at Kilderry, W. E. H. A local plant 
in Donegal. 
S. uliginosa Murr.—Common. At 1850 feet on Slieve Snacht. 
Catan pings) Thuil. C. triviale Link. C. semidecandrum L. 
C. tetrandrum Curt.—Culdaff, Dickie. Sandy ground between 
Buncrana and Fahan, and at Dunree; Malin Hea 
onum rupicola Lebel. —Dunaff Head ; coast about Malin 
Head and elsewhere. 
. salinum Presl. and L. marinum Wahlb.—Both forms ey 
frequent.» The latter especially so about Inch Road and Burnfoot ~ 
where it is frequently a submerged plant in the heavy dykes. 
Spergula arvensis L. 
inane 5 sylvestris L.—Rare, W. E. H.; and probably not native. 
Only about cottages, but not unfrequent about Carndonagh. 
Hypericum Androsemum L. H. quadrangulum L.  H. pulehrum 
Leers. 
perforatum L.—I formerly ae sik on this pee in my N.W. 
Donegal list, but I fear it was a mistake. I have not noticed it 
recently, nor have I any eeoorest locality. It ieee perhaps, in 
the southern parts of the coun ty, since te is recorded, without 
locality, in the ‘ Cybele Siictoice from 
H. humifusum L.—Frequent, W. E. i meee Culdaff, &c. 
H, Elodes L.—Frequent, especially so about Malin Head. 
(To be continued.) 
SHORT NOTES. 
SAXIFRAGA PEDATIFIDA Sm. as A Britisn Puant.—This species is 
one that has long been on the border- dana of doubtful natives. 
Babington admits it in his earlier editions on the authority of Don 
from Clova and Wynne from Achill Island; but subsequently 
excludes it as atbbelty of garden origi Hoo er relegates it to 
the ‘‘ excluded species.” Looking recently over a long-neglected 
parcel of duplicates in my herbariu a doze 
specimens with this name, labelled as having been gathered in 
Achill Island in 1853 by the late Mr. W. Andrews. They were 
gentleman, who used frequently to bring him Irish rarities. On 
comparing the plant with the type specimens, with the eT 
of Mr. J. G. Baker, there was no doubt about referring it to thi 
species ; it appears to belong to the form S. ceratophylla of Aiton, 
istinguished by its rosette of somewhat rigid leaves. I hav 
placed specimens in the National Herbaria at South Kensington 
and Kew. The distribution of the plant on the continent is very 
