1 92 1. Praeger. — Notes on Down and Dublin Plants. 103 



II. — Co. Dublin. 



Cnicus pratensis Willd.— Seen in June growing with 

 Eriophontm latifoliiim in the second field below (S.W. of) 

 Glenasmole National School (the old monastery in 

 Glenasmole) — a large colony. This is an extension of 

 Mr. Briinker's recently recorded station [supra, p. 79), 

 lying about two-third mile to the north of it. Mr. Brunker's 

 station is not rlew^ Mr. W. B. Bruce having recorded the 

 plant from the identically same spot eleven years ago 

 (/. N., xix., 155). 



Eriophorum latifolium Hoppe.— Mr. Scully's note (/. N., 

 xxviii., 90) on the only Dublin station for this rare plant 

 hardly does justice to its abundance there. In June Mr. 

 vStelfox and I found six or seven large patches (the largest 

 quarter to half acre in extent) between the line of the 

 embankment of the upper reservoir in Glenasmole and 

 St. x\nne's Church. In these spots the plant was the 

 dominant species, its short yellowish leaves forming a 

 feature almost as distinct as its forest of long-stemmed 

 tassels of fruit, which formed white patches conspicuous 

 from the opposite side of the valley, half a mile away. 



Carex pallescens L. — Abundant on the same area as the 

 last. Clearly not so rare in this, its only Dublin station, 

 as would appear from the records (see Colgan's " Flora " 

 and /. A^., xxviii., 90). 



Orchis O'Kellyi Druce. — Mr. T. A. Stephenson confirms 

 this naming by Mr. Stelfox and myself of a Glenasmole 

 orchis as the 0. O'Kellyi of Druce, which occurs in Galway 

 and Clare (and sparingly in England), but has not, I think, 

 been recorded hitherto from eastern Ireland. The late 

 Mr. Rolfe of Kew, a specialist in Orchids, thought it 

 distinct at least in a segregate sense, and Mr. R. A. Phillips 

 inclines to this opinion ; but the Stephensons, the latest 

 students of the group, look on it as a race of 0. Fiichsii 

 Druce, a segregate of 0. maciilata L. (Journ. of Bot., 

 lix., 122, 1921). It is recognizable by its very graceful 

 slender form and its quite unspotted leaves and white 

 flowers. 



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