Page:Journal of botany, British and foreign, Volume 34 (1896).djvu/140

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120 Westmeath plants. phyitus (sp. collect.) var. Schlechtendaiii (Weihe). In the Knock Drin Wood and the Crooked Wood. — *i^. hirtifoiius M. & W. "Apparently a hairy form of R. hirti/olius," W. M. Rogers, — "^'R. danicus Focke. Woods at Knock Drin. " Clearly the same as Focke'a R. danicus, which he now puts under R. hirtijolius,'* W, M. Rogers. — R. pyramidalis Kalt. Frequent in the Knock Drin Woods and the neighbourhood generally. — -^^R. leucostachys Schleich. Knock Eoss; form with spreadmg sepals (just like a Haslemere plant, Mr. Eogers tells us), Crooked Wood. — R. mucronatus Blox. Woods at Knock Drin, not unfrequent ; Faunt's Bog, Quarry Bog. — *j^. radula Weihe, towards echinatoides. Knock Drin Woods ; also var. "^echinatoides Kogers. Knock Body. — '^^R. Newbouldii Bab. Crooked Wood, seen in one apot only ; rather less glandular than the Cheshire and {Shropshire forms, but with no other difference. — M, J' use us W. & N., forma. Crooked Wood. — Var. ■macrostackys P. J. Muell. Knock Boss. The type has previously been recorded by Mr. Levinge. — R. fuscus x incurvatus occurred at one spot in Crooked Wood ; the latter bramble is frequent and very charac- teristic in the neighbourhood. — R. rosacem W. & N. var. "^'hystrix W. & N. Knock i)rm Woods. A shade-grown form. — ^^R. thyrsiger Bab. Woods at Knock Drin; named for us by the Bev. W. M. Bogers, who remarks that this Irish form is undoubtedly Babington's plant, but is rather less armed, much less clothed with hair, and its leaves less regularly serrate. New to Ireland. — -R. scaber W. & N. Crooked Wood (just the same as the Boar's Hill plant, Berks, fide Mr. Bogers) ; also wooded slope of Knock Ross, and at Knock Drin. — *ii;. hirtus W. & N., aggreg. One or two forms of this variable aggregate were found, which have not been more precisely named. Knock Drin; Knock Ross. — R. dumetoruui W. & N., et.ferox Weihe. Roadside hedges. Knock Drin to Mullingar. — R. coryiifolius Sm., a. subiustris Lees. Knock Drin, not common. Fotentilla procumbens Sibth. Shore of L. Deraveragh, under Knock Body. Not certainly known for the county before. With it grew *P. procumbens X sylvestris. '^Rxjsa septum Thuill. In some quantity at the foot of Knock Eyon, and also occurring at the foot of Knock Body. Rare and local in Ireland. — R. canina L. var. ^^urbica Leman. Knock Body ; and var. "^'dumalis Bechst., by L. Deraveragh, at Clonave. Ly thrum iSalicaria L. All three forms growing together in one spot on the shore of L. Owel. ■^'Epilobium obscurum X palustre. Bog of Lynn. Apium nodijiorum Reich, fil. var. "^ochreatum Bab. Shores of L. Owel and L. Deraveragh. Galium palustre L. var. ^^Witheringii {^m..). Brittas Lake and Bog of Lynn. Leontodon hispidus L. Knock Eyon ; mentioned on account of its great rarity in the district. Taraxacum ojicinale Web. var. *udum Jord. Knock Drin. . Scrophularia aquatica L. var. ^cinerea Dum. At Donore, on L. Deraveragh. — Veronica Anagallis- aquatic a L. var. ^anagalliformis Bor. Knock Drin ; and Scraw Bog, m the same neighbourhood.