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the River Dodder ; Templetou. — 12. Bog on Fair Head, Antrim ; S. A. 
Stewart. 
■\Sisyrhynchiun anceps (Lam.) S. Bermudiana (Linn.)— 6. Abun- 
dant in marshy meadows and pastures along the river on both sides, for 
four miles, from Woodford to E,ossmore, forming conspicuous blue 
patches among the grass, and with every appearance of a native. Also 
in fields by the road from "Woodford to Portumna, and on a hill half a 
mile ]Sr. E. from Woodford; M. Dowd, and Prof. E. P. Wright, 1870. 
The plant grows here in such profuse abundance that it seems hyper- 
critical to challenge its indigenous origin ; still, when we see how in - 
explicably it has originated, how abundant it has become within a few 
years, and what a strong hold it has taken of the ground at Brisbane, 
Queensland, as recorded by Mr. C. Prentice, inTrimen's Journal of Bo- 
tany, Series 2, vol. i., p. 22 (1872) ; and considering that in England also 
it has lately become well established in Hampshire, we may well hesi- 
tate to accept the "Blue-eyed grass " of Canada as an indubitable native 
of Ireland. If the locality in which it occurs is nearly as restricted as 
that of the S. piranthes at Berehaven, at least the Orchid lies, like all 
the other American and Iberian plants, quite close to the shore, and is 
a species of whose introduction or rapid extension we have not any ex- 
perience. 
XIris fcetidissima (Linn.) A very doubtful native of Ireland, where 
it seems to have been formerly much cultivated, nor are we acquainted 
with any locality where it grows in a reallj^ natural manner. 
Asparagus officinalis (Linn.) — 4. Sandhills in Ballyteigue Bay, 
Wexford; Mr. Lewis. 
X Allium Babingtonii (Borr.) — 6. In all three of the Islands of Aran ; 
H. C. Hart. 
A. vineah (Linn.) — 3. Banks of theKore, near Inistioge, Kilkenny ; 
Tighe. 
Simethis hicolor (Kunth). — 1. Certainly indigenous at Berry nane, 
where it grows on boggy, heathy, and turfy slopes, far away from the 
Abbey ruins, amidst heather and carices^ etc. 
Eriocaulon septangular e (With.) — 1. Bog-holes at north end of 
Lough Carragh, Kerry ; Dr. Battersby. First found by Dr. Wade in 
1801, as shown by a letter from him to Smith, in the Library of the 
Linnaean Society. In the Cloonee, not Cromeen, Lakes, Kerry. 
Junciis acutus (Linn.) — -1. Plentiful in the warren at Bosscarber^^, 
and a few plants on Castlefreke sands ; Rev. T. Allin. — 4. At the mouth 
of the Kilgorman river, north of Courtown, Wexford, and on sandhills 
thence to Arklow; also north of Arklowin Brittas Bay, and near Mizen 
Head, etc., as far as Seapark House, where both it and Equisetum 
Moorei appear to cease. Flowers early in June, several weeks before J. 
maritimus. 
J. oUusifloriis (Ehrh.)— 1. ^^"ear Dingle, Kerry ; D. M. District 8. 
Boggy slopes at foot of Urrisbcg Mountain, Conneraara ; A. G. M. 
J. sq^iarrosiis (Jjmn.) District 10. Sperrin Mountain, Tyrone; S. 
