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 399 SHORT NOTES. Donegal Plants. — Guscuta Epithymum. appeared on thyme in several patches in natural ground close to the hotel at Eosapenna, Carngorst. It is such an inconspicuous sort of plant, looking like a patch of withered reddish vegetation, that it may easily have escaped my observation in previous years. As early as 1767 Threlkeld recorded Dodder (probably this species) from '' Magden Tower, near Drogheda." It had not been gathered subsequently up to the publication of Cyhele Hibernica (1866), and I am uncertain if it has been gathered since in Ireland, but I think it has.* Lotus tenuis has appeared in considerable quantity in a patch of laid down grass in the same locality, opposite the entrance of the hotel. It is, I should say, undoubtedly established. The variation of its leaves towards those of L. corniculatus in some plants is very obvious. The species has an erect habit at Eosapenna. Galium Mollugo occurs sparingly, and undoubtedly introduced, with the preceding. This grass was laid down four years ago. Reseda sujfruticidosa was also introduced, and has established itself in the same way. Cochlearia groenlandica grows in several places on the outer exposed bluffs and headlands of north-west Rossgull, about five miles north of Eosapenna : west of Gortnaloghoge is one station. Mr. Bennett, who kindly examined specimens, writes, " I sent your Cochlearia to Mr. Marshall, and he says, ' I believe the enclosed is true C. groenlandica L.' " I had so named it from memory of its appearance in Greenland. But I have little regard for it as a specific form, distinct from anglica. — H. C. Hakt. PoLYGALA ciLiATA Lebcl, FORMA. — A sliort time ago Mr. Hilton brought to the Natural History Museum, South Kensington, a very interesting Poly gala which he had gathered on the Downs near Brighton. The sepals are strongly ciliate, more so than in some specimens we have of the Gogmagog plant, but it does not quite agree with Lebel's original description (in Grenier & Godron, El. de Erance, i. 195) of his P. ciliata. Two points of difference being (a) the racemes are often lateral ; [h) the sepals taken as a whole are narrower (I say, taken as a whole, because they are not always all quite the same shape). We are fortunate in having in the Herbarium specimens from Lebel of his P. ciliata, and I notice the point he so emphasizes in his description, "les grappes terminales et jamais laterales," is not quite borne out by his specimens, the racemes of which, though generally terminal, are not invariably so. The sepals of the Brighton plant are narrower than in the Lebel specimens — an important point, as he says, " la largeur des ailes Ten distinguent parfaitement," so I think it must be referred to P. ciliata as a form. I notice P. ciliata Lebel, non Linn., is the P. blepharoptera of Borbas {Oest. Bot. Zeit. 1890, 177), which has got changed to plepharojJtera in Hallier & Wolfarth's edition of in Kerry, Waterford, and Meath.— Ed. Jouen. Bot.]
 * [See Journ. Bot. 1892, p. 14, where Mr. A. G. More records its occurrence