FOOT (F. J.) BOTANICAL NOTES. 17 



I take this opportunity of recording the occurrence of the follow- 

 ing plants in the district around Boyle : — 



Ranunculus lingua (Great Spearwort) — Grows very plentifully, in 

 marshy ground, on the shores of Lough Key, near Boyle, along with 

 Sagittaria sagittifolia and other aquatics. 



This beautiful and extensive sheet of water, navigable to within a 

 mile of the town of Boyle, and communicating with the Shannon by 

 means of the Boyle River, which joins the former near Carrick, is rapidly 

 becoming choked up with that baneful Canadian plant, Anacharis alsi- 

 nastrum [Elodea Canadensis). 



■ Cicuta virosa (Cowbane, or Water Hemlock) — Plentiful round the 

 margin of a small lake, called Gortinty Lough, in the county of Leitrim, 

 at the east side of the Shannon, one mile and a half south-east of the 

 village of Drumsna. 



Draha incana — Grows in great abundance on Kesh Corran, county 

 of Sligo, on cliffs facing the north. Kesh Corran is a steep and rocky 

 hill of limestone, about eight miles north-west of Boyle, having a height 

 of 1183 feet above the sea level. It is not unlike Ingleborough Hill 

 in Yorkshire, the well-known station of many rare plants. The Kesh 

 Corran range of hills, with their precipitous cliffs and terraces, extend- 

 ing from Lough Arrow to within three miles of the village of Ballymote, 

 strongly resembles parts of the Burren. Benbulben, the well-known 

 station of Draha incana, is twenty miles or more north of Kesh Corran, 

 and the Ox Mountains intervene. Draha incana also grows in great 

 luxuriance on the southern shores of Lough Mask, upwards of fifty 

 miles south-west of Kesh Corran. 



Arahis hirsuta and Saxifraga hypnoides are also abundant on Kesh 

 Corran. 



Asplenium viride (Green Spleenwort), so plentiful on the Benbul- 

 ben Mountains, grows also sparingly on Kesh Corran, on cliffs facing the 

 north. 



Lastrea oreopteris. — This fern is so very local in its distribution in 

 Ireland, that any new station is worth recording. I found it growing 

 sparingly on conglomerate rocks, in a ravine on the east flank of Slieve- 

 bawn Hill, county of Eoscommon, two or three miles south-east of 

 Strokestown ; also very sparingly, on Silurian shales, on the west flank, 

 and further north, near Gayfield. 



Lycopodium clavatum — Abundant on the Curlew Mountains, north 

 of Boyle, on trappean breccias, which are here interstratified with Red 

 Sandstones. The Lycopodium seems to be completely confined to the 

 breccia. 



At the conclusion of Mr. Foot's paper — 



Mr. Andrews said that, from the notice given with regard to 

 Hymenophyllum Wilsoni, its occurrence and distribution, he had antici- 

 pated that some remarks would be made as to its habit and growth; and 

 therefore he had much pleasure in submitting to the President, whose 



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