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in small solitary clumps, and I traced it from the point before- 
mentioned northward along two miles of shore to Old Man’s Head: 
and on a subsequent day, striking the sea just north of the mouth 
of the Blackstaff River (two miles north of the point last-mentioned), 
local boats with cargoes of coal, bricks, and so on. Introduction 
by land is equally out of the question. The place is remote from 
spikelets and flowers are as large as in A. Foucaudii Hack. ap. 
Foucaud in Bull. Soe. Bot. Rochell., 1898, 178, of which it has also 
the habit. But in A. Foucaudii the culm is thin-walled, the central 
cavity being very large; in festuceformis the culm is firm, thick-walled ; 
‘ouca 
looked on as a good species or as a luxuriant extreme form 
G. maritima, v. EK. 8. Marshall has gathered it in Kent (Flor. 
Kent, p. 405), and Miss Knowles collected a grass like it in Limerick 
this year.” * 
lyceria festuceformis occurs on the north coast of the Medi- 
terranean from southern France to south-west Russia. On its 
appearance in north-east Ireland, Mr. Praeger remarks :— 
‘‘We have grown accustomed to associate the occurrence of 
species in the north-east of Ireland appears a startling anomaly. 
A little thought, however, tends to lessen one’s astonishment. The 
uw 
any xerophile tendencies, chooses the dry warm limestones. But a 
sea-shore plant like G/ = 
__- ™ See Irish Naturalist, October, 1903, p. 251. 
