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John Templeton's Drawings of Irish LichensAuthor(s): Nora Fisher M'MillanSource: The Irish Naturalists' Journal, Vol. 8, No. 8 (Sep., 1945), p. 316Published by: Irish Naturalists' Journal Ltd.Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/25533391 .

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316 The Irish Naturalists' Journal. [Vol. VIII.

over?and the habitats of this species are often only reached after a considerable climb. So far as my memory goes the form of this

plant which grows on the grea<t cliff of Croaghmore on Clare Island, Co. Mayo, resembles the Benevenagh and smaller Welsh plant, but

except for my single specimen from Glenade I have no information

regarding the flowers produced by the Purple Saxifrage in its many other Sligo-Leitrim stations.

14 Clareville Road, Dublin. A. W. STELFOX.

CABEX ACUTIF0BM1S EHRH. IN CO. LONDONDERRY.

The only Derry station given for Carex acutiformis Ehrh.^C.

paludosa Good, given in the second edition of A Flora of the North East of Ireland is

" Side of the Bann below Gcleraine: Herb Moore."

(According to the dates given for David Moore on page lvii this record would be between 1832 and 1837.) Apparently this sedge has not been recorded siince Moore's time. There is now a large patch of it on the

right bank of the Bann isome twro miles below Coleraine. Carex riparia Curt, grows abundantly in two stations not far away, but I have not seen any Carex gracilis Curt, on the right bank ; Dr. Praeger's station for the latter is no doubt on the left bank.

Portrush, June, 1945. C. D. CHASE.

EARLY u

FROCHAN."

While out, with the Dublin Naturalists* Field Club, on 26th May last, in rthe Dargle, Go. -Wicklow, I found a Frochan bush covered

with full-sized green berries. One Frochan was quite ripe however. As this seems to me to be unsnally early, I thought it might

be of interest to other nature lovers. Dublin. D. F. REEVES (Miss).

[Mr. J. P. Brunker informs us that "

Frochan "

refers to the

Bilberry, Vaceiniuin viyrtillus L., and observes that the date "

is

ridiculously early but true."?Ed.]

DOG'S MERCURY IN WOODS AT LOUGH FEA, CO. MONAGHAN.

The only Monaghan records I can find for this plant, Mercurialu

perennis L., are 'those from Glasslough and Monaghan (W. F. de V.

Kane) in Irish Topographical Botany. Dog's Mercury is, however, very abundant in the woods round

Lough Fea, near Ca.rrickmaeross, where I saw i't on 1st July, 1943. Presumably it was introduced here when the woods were planted with beech and other trees and shrubs of non-Irish origin, but it is now thoroughlv established and verv much at home.

14 Clarevilfe Road, Dublin. *

A. W. STELFOX.

JOHN TEMPLETONS DRAWINGS OF IRISH LICHENS.

In Dr. Praeger's interesting account, of the Templeton MS-S. {Fl. N.E. Ireland, ed. 2, 1938, pp. 1-liii) there is no menttion of Temple ton's drawings of lichens and fungi, no doubt because these are not (included in the Flora. Nor are the drawings mentioned in Knowles'

Lichens of Ireland (Proc. R.I.A., XXXVIII, B, 179-434, 1929). Perhaps, therefore, it is worth drawing the attention -of Irish botanists to the

existence of -these drawings in the Department of Botany, British Museum (Natural History). They were exhibited by Miss A, Lorraine Smith at the Linnean Society in 1925 and duly chronicled an the

Proceedings of that Society for 1924-35, p. 21. The collection was a gift from a noted American mycologist, Dr. Howard Kelly. I have not seen the drawings, but they are referred to as

" a volume

" which

rather suggests that one of the missing volumes of Templeton's Hibernian Flora has at last turned up.

The location of the collection is not stated in the Linnean Society account, but in Britten and Roulger's Biog. Index Deceased Brit, and Irish Botanists (2nd ed., 1931), p. 298, it is given as

" Herb. Mus. Brit."?

i.e. Department of Botanv, British Museum.

Bromborough, Cheshire. NORA FISHER M'MILLAN.

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