W. H. Crawford, a 19th Century HorticulturistAuthor(s): Thomas CrawfordSource: The Irish Naturalists' Journal, Vol. 19, No. 6 (Apr., 1978), p. 205Published by: Irish Naturalists' Journal Ltd.Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/25538170 .

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Ir. Nat. J. Vol. 19. No. 6. 1978 203

BOTANICAL NOTES

STICTA DUFOUREI DEL., NEW TO NORTH TIPPERARY

Mitchell (1961 Revta. Biol. Lisb. 2: 177-256) includes Sticta dufourei amongst the euoceanic lichens of Ireland. In his study, LElement eu-oceanique dans la flora du sud-ouest de Yhiande, he outlines the ecology and provides the distribution as, 1, 2, 3, 10, 39. (note 10 a typ. error, 8 intended, as map indicates),?a southwesterly distribution

with an outlying locality in the north-east. The species occurs elsewhere?in Britain

(SW England exfending to W. Wales and W. Scotland); Europe {W. France, Portugal, Italy) and Macaronesia.

This note reports an addition to the vice-comital list. S. dufourei was collected in North Tipperary in recent years. The particulars are,

on vertical rock splashed by falling water; Clare Glens, nr. Newport, H 10, 26.6.1970. M. Scannell.

At this locality the River Clare forms the county boundary between Limerick and Tipperary. When collected it was not ascertained if the lichen occurred across the span of the river into the next botanic division. It has been reported however from H 8, "shore near Foynes, Knowles, 1910 (1929 The Lichens of Ireland, p. 230).

I thank Prof M. E. Mitchell, University College, Galway, and Dr Brian Coppins, Royal Botanic Gardens, Edinburgh, for discussion and confirmation of determination.

Herbarium, National Botanic Gardens, Glasnevin, Dublin. M. J. P. SCANNELL

W. H. CRAWFORD, A 19th CENTURY HORTICULTURIST

Successive publications and catalogues of Irish botanists have not, so far as I am aware, included William H. Crawford (1812-1888), a member of the Cork brewing family, who lived at Lakelands, Blackrock, overlooking Lough Mahon, inner Cork

Harbour, who enriched Cork and endowed its cultural Institutes. The Crawford family came originally from Crawfordsburn, Co Down. W. H.

Crawford, a horticulturist of some importance, frequently contributed notes to the Gardeners' Chronicle. He grew Andean and Himalayan shrubs about his residence and was the first in these islands to flower in the open Magnolia camphellii. His stove collection of Brownea (Leguminosae), named after Patrick Browne of Mayo, was con

sidered one of the finest in existence at that time. He succeeded in crossing B. macro

phylla and B. grandiceps, the resulting hybrid was named by W. Watson as B. X

crawfordii in his honour. On his death in 1888 his collection of plants was divided between Queen's

College (Cork), Glasnevin Botanic Gardens and Kew.

Curator, National Botanic Gardens, Glasnevin, Dublin 9. THOMAS CRAWFORD

LEMANEA IN THE NORTH OF IRELAND

In Scannell, M. J. P. (1977, Localities in Cork east of Lemanea sp. (Rhodo phyceae). Ir. Nat* J. 19: 25) all the historic records of Lemanea spp, in Ireland were noted, these amounted to fi\t, to which were added two more from field work carried out in 1975. Only one of these records was from the North of Ireland.

In addition to these a specimen in the Ulster Museum (BEL) is of interest; it was collected by William Thompson "R. Bann, Kilrea, July, 1839, W. T." and identified as Lemanea fluviatilis. This seems to be the earliest record for the genus from the north

of Ireland. The fact that it was collected during the summer indicates that it may not

only "exist for about "a month (generally December or January)", (West, G. S. 1904, A Treatise on the British Freshwater Algae. Cambridge).

The same species is also recorded by Sawers, W. (1854, List of Algae Gathered in the North of Ireland. Naturalist (F. O. Morris) 4: 254-257) from the locality of

Loughs Foyle and Swilly. However, a record of Lemanea sertularia collected by John Templeton in 1808 from the Mourne Mountains (Kertland, M. P. H. 1967, The specimens of Templeton's algae in the Queen's University herbarium, Ir. Nat J. 15: 318-322) is believed to be based on a misidentification.

A further specimen of Lemanea from the north of Ireland collected during the summer has recently come to light in the Ulster Museum. It was collected by Miss

M. P. H. Kertland in June 1959 In a river at Banagher Glen near Dungiven, Co

Londonderry.

Dept of Botany and Zoology, Ulster Museum, Belfast 9. OSBORNE MORTON

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