Co. Dublin PlantsAuthor(s): Joseph DoyleSource: The Irish Naturalists' Journal, Vol. 5, No. 12 (Nov., 1935), p. 307Published by: Irish Naturalists' Journal Ltd.Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/25532505 .

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November, 1935.] The Irish Naturalists' Journal. 307

notice of Kennedy appeared in the Belfast Monthly Magazine for

June, 1810, and from this account it appears he was born in 1785, the son of the Rev. Thomas Kennedy, of Kilmore, Co. Down.

He studied medicine in Dublin, Edinburgh, and London, gaining the degree of M.D., and acquired a taste for science in general.

He died at Kilmore, Friday, 15th June, 1810, when only 25 years of age. To quote from the account "Sis knowledge of chemistry,

mineralogy, and botany was extensive, and had the shaft of death spared him a few years, his country, and his friends might have been pleased with hearing of his increasing fame, for truly may it be said that in him science has lost a sincere votary, and one

well calculated to illustrate the natural history of Ireland, a country so long neglected, and so peculiarly interesting to all who

study the productions of nature." Kennedy is not mentioned in either edition of Biogr. Index of Deceased British 'and Irish

Botanists.

Public Museum, Liverpool.

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BOTANICAL NOTES.

MUSK MIMULUS, MIMULUS MOSCHATUS DOUGLAS, IN CO. TYRONE.

At an excursion of the Tyrone Naturalists' Field Club on 14th August, 1935, to the Gortin Glens, Mimulus moschatus was observed' in considerable abundance alongside a streamlet at Lislap. In this station it appears quite naturalised and is the first record for the county.

Milton, Sandholes, Dunganmon. THOMAS GREER.

CO. DUBLIN PLAINTS. I wish to record the presence of some clumps of the Flowering Rush,

Butomus umbellatu* L., scattered along the Dodder River, between Milltown and Ballsbridge. As this plant has been excluded by Colgan from the Dublin Flora, I leave a decision on its status in this new station to others.

It may also be of interest to record that the Gibbous Duckweed, Lemna gibba L., has appeared in considerable quantity in the Dodder during the last few years, thus extending its distribution to district 7 of the county.

Perhaps the real interest in the record is the fact that it has been so abundant on the Dodder recently that it could not have been overlooked by Colgan and other workers on the Dublin flora in the past. It would thus appear to bo an interesting example of the present spreading of the plant, presumably by bird agency.

Botany Dept., University College, Dublin. JO&EBH DOYLE.

THE STATUS OF A VENA STMGOSA SCHREB. IN IRELAND. When I found some specimens of this -grass last July, growing at the

foot of a wall in one of tihe outlying streets of Wexfordi, it occurred to me that it was time its status in Ireland was reconsidered. The plant is now a very common weed in many parts of the country, in some places indeed a troublesome one. I?t is not merely that it is constantly introduced with imported seedl. Fields sown with selected non-imported grain become seriously infected from the (progeny of plants of Avena strigosa which are growing freely in the neighbouring hedges and ditches.

Botany Dept., University College, Dublin. JOSEPH DOYLE.

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