510 APPENDIX. ICeratophyllem. 



XII. BaUinahincli Lake : Templeton MS. Lake near BaUinaliiiich, 

 Co. Down, 1808 {Mmhay ^ Templeton) : Flor. Sib. 



The county Down plant was G. demersum. Wade's Connemara 

 record has not been confirmed. 



COmFJSR^. 



Juniperus Sabina Linn. — Scmin. 

 I. Fotind by an apothecary on one of the islands in Longh Lane, 

 Killamey : Br. Moh/neux, PMlos. Trcms., No. 33'j, ibg'j. — XII. On 

 Slieve Donard, Monrne mountains : Harrises Down, I'J44. 



Errors. The plant gathered at Killamey was no doiibt a form 

 of the common juniper; the Slieve Donard plant was either 

 Lycopodium alpinum or Juniperus nana, "Willd. 



Pinus sylvestris liam.^Scotch Fir. 

 I. (?) "Found by Mr. Harrison in Ireland, who relates that the 

 two foregoing plants [the Spruce and the Silver Err] were found in 

 the county of Kerry (where the arbutus gi'ows) by a person of 

 good iategrity and skiU in the knowledge of plants " : Ray 

 Synopsis, ibgb. "These trees have been much destroyed of late 

 years, for except a small shrub here and there among the rocks 

 there are none standing at present of any large size " : SmitWs 

 Kerry, I'jsb. — VII. In the woods in the King's Co. {Br. Molynewo) : 

 ThrelTceld. — YIII. " I found it scattered in a few places in Conne- 

 mara of a diminutive stunted growth, although apparently veiy 

 old: Wade Gallovid z8oi. The trees observed by "Wade were 

 probably yews, as after diligent search Mr. A. G. Kiaahan has 

 failed to find any wild firs in Connemara : Cyh. " 1 saw a solitary 

 tree at the foot of Nephin which I was told was the only remains 

 of the pine forest in that quarter " : Mack Cat. 182^. There is 

 one lai-ge and old tree, supposed to be a last reUo of the ancient 

 forests, still growing on an open bog near Crossmolina, at the head 

 of Lough Conn in Mayo ; and this tree, which is probably the same 

 referred to by Mackay as growing near Nephin, has been lately 

 fenced in, and is carefully preserved by the Earl of Arran, who is 

 the owner of the land : Cyh. i86b. — XII. In "Waiingstown in the 

 county of Down : Threlheld. 



There can be no doubt that the Scotch Eir was formerly native 

 and abundant in Ireland. Its roots and trunks are frequently dug 

 up from the bogs, and Professor Melville {Memoirs Geolog. Survey, 

 Ireland, Ms. 11^ ^ iib,p. sg) states that cones of both the Scotch 



