858 EUPHORBIA HIBERNA IN CO. DONEGAL. 
clusion, that three other records by Robert Brown were Sazifraga 
oppositifolia, Saussurea alpina, and Carex rigida. These, he states, 
grew in Innishowen, and I have verified them ae ‘years ago. 
Salix herbacea, recorded without authority from the same locality 
by Wade, is no doubt Brown’s also; it grows there profusely. Their 
reali) (Bulbein Mt. = is adic d eight miles from the present one, 
near Buncrana. It occurs in great profusion on reclaime 
south of Buncrana, and I was much ST (see Journ. Bot. 1883, 
p. 49) to account for the source of dissemination. This, however, 
sets that question at rest. 
H. Caicuester Harr. 
This re-discovery is especially interesting, inasmuch as _ 
can be no doubt that Huphorbia hiberna has been found by 
Hunter in the very nen where Robert Brown discovered it ate 
a hundred Years ago 
Mackay derived this information first-hand, or through Brown’s 
friend Templeton, whose aid he specially acknowledges, does not 
appear: but Brown is not mentioned in the preface to Flora 
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of Donegal (Robert Brown); Flor. Hib. (not found by any other 
botanist)”: and up to. the present time no confirmation of the 
sagen has been received. 
: | ing on 
May 27th, he says: ‘ Wrote the Journal of yesterday, in in w% I forgot 
to mention my having found Euphorbia hiberna by the River-side 
near the of Dunrea, Sy oremnd and on thee same day he 
farther notes, * De . esac bed Sag hyberna.”* On the ree: oe 
More informs me that it is only sortase for that county from 
Inish the plant is “not easily mistaken. Will Irish botanists 
= out for it on the ! where Read probably found it ? 
‘Gi ee te apne bya — i. 462. 
