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NOTES. 



BOTANY. 



New County Records for Monaghan and Fermanagh. 



Towards the end of July last, while on a visit to my friend the Bishop 

 of Clogher at Bishopscourt, near Clones, we made a rather careful 

 survey of the grounds and the adjacent bog-land, with the result that 

 five new species were added to the flora of Monaghan, No. 32 of the 

 Irish botanical vice-counties. In the grounds quite close to the house 

 we found Leontodon hvitis and the rare sedge, Carex strigosa ; in the bog 

 Andromeda Polifolia appeared in considerable quantity, associated with 

 Rhyiichospora alba, while Veronica montana was found in abundance in a 

 shady lane leading towards the Ulster Canal. Adding to these the 

 Toothwort {Lathraca sqnaviaria), which was observed in Bishopscourt 

 wood in the spring of the year, the total of new records for Monaghan 

 from this small area is brought up to six. Evidently the flora of 

 Monaghan has been but imperfectly explored. 



A day spent in ascending Cuilcagh from Belcoo, by way of the Marble 

 Arch, was very disappointing in its botanical results, since it added but 

 one new species to the flora of Fermanagh, vice-county No. 33. Although 

 it attains to a height of 2,188 feet, and has a considerable extent of cliff"- 

 surface facing north-east, and in some points reaching to fully 1,900 

 feet, Cuilcagh yielded a very poor flora. At 1,000 feet Listera coidata 

 appeared ; at about 1,600 feet Vaccininin Vitis-Idcca and Hyinenophylhitn 

 unilaterale ; at 1,800 feet Polypodaini Phcgopteris^ and Saxifraga stellaris ; and, 

 sole addition to the Fermanagh flora of all the plants on this north- 

 eastern face of the mountain (which belongs entirely to that county), 

 Lycopodium clavatuvi turned up in some quantity on grass)' slopes at 1.400 

 feet. Returning to Clones from Belcoo by rail next morning, another 

 addition to the Fermanagh flora was observed at lyisnaskea station, 

 where that pushing alien, Matiicaria discoidea, appeared on the per- 

 manent way. This record' brings up to 24 the total of Irish county 

 divisions in which this species has appeared. 



N. Coi^GAN. 



Sandycove. 



Limerick Plants. 



To the current number of the fournal of the Limerick Field Club (June, 

 1905), Mr. R. A. Phillips contributes a readable article on " Some notes 

 on the F^lora of Limerick." The best plants new to the district which 

 are mentioned are Polygonum mite and Carex aquatilis, the former not 

 found previously in Ireland south of lyeitrim, nor the latter south of 

 Dublin. The proof-reader has hardly done justice to the paper, and the 

 generic names Lynohnis and Hieraciuns strike us as unfamiliar. The paper 

 is illustrated by a plate made from an excellent photograph by Dr. 

 George Fogerty of Leucojum cestivnm growing in the Ballinacurra marshes— 

 a plant of which we hope to hear more from Mr. Phillips and others. 



To the same number Mr. R. D. O'Brien contributes some botanical 

 notes, chiefly on the distribution and standing of Leucojum. 



