Carex × turfosa Fr. (C. nigra × C. elata) – with both parents by N edge of Ballyhoe Lough, N849.957, 2017 (AF – conf. Mike Porter, 2017) (NCR) × Schedolium loliaceum (Huds.) Holub (Schedonorus pratensis × Lolium perenne) (Hybrid Fescue) – within Cannabis sativa (Hemp) crop just N of Burdautien Lough, H495.286, 2018 (AF) (NCR) Lolium × boucheanum Kunth (L. perenne × L. multiflorum) – with both parents on a bank by the side of a disused railway bridge just N of Newbliss, H564.241, 2016 (AF – conf. Tim C.G. Rich, 2016) (NCR) Festuca ovina L. subsp. ophioliticola (Kerguélen) M.J. Wilk. (Sheep’s-fescue) – bank by a ruined church near NE edge of Lough Egish, H787.140, 2016 (AF – det. Arthur Copping, 2016) (NCR – population confirmed by cytological analysis to be tetraploid (2n = 28)) Festuca brevipila R. Trace (Hard Fescue) – on rubbly ground at the edge of Ulex europaeus (Gorse) scrub near a road W of Lough Nahinch, H780.269, 2016 (AF – det. Arthur Copping, 2017; FitzGerald 2018a) (NCR and second Irish record – population confirmed by cytological analysis to be very likely hexaploid (2n = 42)) References Allen, [D.E.] ms. [manuscript] (2020). Brambles of Ireland. Manuscript in preparation. Botanical Society of Britain and Ireland (2022). BSBI Distribution Database. Available at: https://database.bsbi.org/. Accessed: 13th March 2022. FitzGerald, A. (2016). Co. Monaghan (H32) Report for 2015. Irish Botanical News 26: 61-63. FitzGerald, A. (2017a). A new hybrid dock for Ireland from Co. Monaghan (v.c. H32), Rumex × digeneus G. Beck (R. hydrolapathum Hudson × R. conglomeratus Murray) (Polygonaceae A.L. Jussieu). Irish Botanical News 27: 34-35. FitzGerald, A. (2017b). Plant Records. New Journal of Botany 7: 187 [includes the first Monaghan record of Carex × boenninghausiana] FitzGerald, A. (2018a). Hard Fescue (Festuca brevipila R. Tracey), an overlooked neophyte grass species in Ireland? Irish Naturalists’ Journal 36: 31-34. Metherell, C. & Rumsey, F.J. (2018). Eyebrights (Euphrasia) of the UK and Ireland. BSBI, Bristol. Richards, A.J. & Doogue, D.A. (2017). Notes on some Taraxacum (Asteraceae) from Ireland including description of four new species in section Celtica. New Journal of Botany 7: 136-146. Sell, P. & Murrell, G. (1996-2018). Flora of Great Britain and Ireland. Five volumes. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge. Stace, C.A. (2019). New Flora of the British Isles. 4th edition. C. & M. Floristics, Suffolk.
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Antrim’s rare plants – Part 2 David McNeill, Greystown Park, Belfast, Co. Antrim Email: dw.mcneill13@gmail.com
In Part 1 of this series of articles, I drew attention to 41 species which, to my knowledge, had not been recorded in County Antrim (H39) since 2000. Since publication, I have heard from Paul Hackney that Brachypodium pinnatum has been seen more recently at both Garron Tower (2016) and Muckamore (circa 2007). PAGE 26
