1892-93.] 535 



Leontodon hirtus, Linn. Fields by the sea at Dalchoolin, near 

 Craigavad, Co. Down, abundant over a limited area, 

 R.L1.P., September, 1892. Though recorded from two 

 stations in Down and two in Antrim, Macedon Point, on 

 the opposite (Antrim) shore of Belfast Lough, is the 

 only habitat in which the plant has been seen for the last 

 thirty years. L. hispidum is rarer still, if, indeed, it occurs 

 at all in the district ; neither Mr. S. A. Stewart nor the 

 reader has ever seen a specimen from the North of Ireland. 



Hieracium flocculosum, Backhouse. Sallagh Braes, Co. Antrim, 

 S. A. Stewart {fide F. J. Hanbury). The only other Irish 

 station is in the Mourne Mountains, Co. Down. 



H. euprepes, Hanb. This plant was gathered on Cave Hill, 

 near Belfast, by Dr. Matier, in 1 845 (spec, in Boswell her- 

 barium, yfofe F. J. Hanbury). Since 1879 ft nas been well 

 known to Mr. S. A. Stewart, who repeatedly gathered it at 

 this station, and also at Sallagh Braes, Co. Antrim, and 

 Binevenagh, Co. Derry, and submitted it on various occa- 

 sions to Mr. Backhouse and Mr. Hanbury without their 

 assigning a satisfactory name to it, but Mr. Hanbury now 

 refers Mr. Stewart's large series of specimens unhesitatingly 

 to his H. euprepes, which has not previously been recorded 

 from Ireland. 



H. rubicimdum, Hanb. Sallagh Braes, Co. Antrim, S. A. 

 Stewart, 1890 {fide F. J. Hanbury). Only previous Irish 

 station is Innishowen, Co. Donegal, where it has been found 

 by Mr. H. C. Hart. 



H. Farrense, Hanb. Collected by Mr. Stewart at Sallagh Braes, 

 Co. Antrim, July, 1890 {fide F. J. Hanbury). Another 

 addition to the list of Irish hawkweeds. 



H. auratum, Fries. This hawkweed, first recorded as Irish by Mr. 

 Stewart and the reader {Proc. R.I. A., 3rd Ser., Vol. II., No. 2) 

 from the Mourne Mountains, where it is widely distributed, 

 is probably of frequent occurence in Antrim. Specimens 

 gathered on the Lough Neagh shore at Cranfield by Mr. 

 Stewart, and on sea-cliffs at Cushendun by R.L1.P., have 

 been confirmed by Mr. Hanbury. 



