Hypopithys multiflora in UlsterAuthor(s): R. Lloyd PraegerSource: The Irish Naturalist, Vol. 13, No. 11 (Nov., 1904), p. 259Published by: Irish Naturalists' Journal Ltd.Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/25522637 .

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t9o4. 259

NO TES. BOTANY.

Further extension of the range of Glyceria festucaformis.

Among some critical plants recently re-examined,which were collected by Mr. S A. Stewart and myself in i889-90 during our exam'ination of

the Mourne Mountaini district in Co. Down, I find two fine specimens of

this grass, gathered by me on the shore betweenl Kilkeel anld Annalong

in July, I890, and labelled " C. maritina ?" The coast here is stony for

many miles, the result of the cutting back of a high bank of glacial

detritus. As at the other Irish Sea stationi for the grass, near Cloghey,

it is unfrequented, and its flora unusually free frotti chances of contami

nation. The existence of this station extenids the range of C.

festucaxformnis over thirty miles south-westward alonig the coast. Besides

providing a further proof that the plant is niative in Ireland, it furniishes another hint as to a possible muchr wider extension of range.

R. LLOYD PRAIG3a.

Typha angustifolia in Glare.

Last July Mr. W. F cde V. Kane sent tne several interestiing planits

from the nleighbourhood of IEUnis, notably Typha angustifolia, anid in

reply to enquiries, has forwarded particulars as to their distribution and

habitat, with a map. Of 7 angustifoZia he writes:-" There are three

lakes in which it is foiund I Ballybeg Lake. Killone or Newhall Lake,

and Edenvale Lakel. The chief locality for the 2ypha is the shore and

marshes at the silde and end of B Ilybeg L., where it is in vast quantities."

This is atn initeresting extensioni of ralnge, as the plant was not known

south of Dublin (where it has been long extinct) till it was found in

Kilkenny a few years ago. The seven other counties in which it grows

are all in the northerni half of Irelanid. Mr. Kanie's other finids include

Saxifraga hypnoides, Cornus ;anguinea (both oni limestone rocks), and

1erbena offirinalis, all formerly recorded in Clare only fromii the niorth,

R. L YovD PRAaGrnR.

Hypopithys multiflora in Ulster.

Mr. N. Carrothers, of Belfast, has addedl this rare ulid iinteresting planit

to the flora of the nortlherni Province. Oii Jutly 15 lst lie discoveredI a

colony of it in Ely L,odge detnlesne, oni Lower Louiglh Eirne, anid kinidly

forwarded nme a spepcilen. It is previouisly oni recorid froiii oinly seveni

botanical divisionls, namely - Kerry N., ,imerick, Galway S.E., Kildare, Dublin, Roscoluiloil, anid Sligo. The Kildare anid Dtibliin records are very old, and ini nieed of confirmiiationi.

R. LToYD PRAEGER. Dublin.

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