io8 The Irish Akituralist. April, 



The Leaf -marking of Arum maculatum. 



With reference to Mr. Colgan's remarks on this subject, the only 

 places I have noticed the spotted form were at Dunsandle, in south-east 

 Galway, where it grew in a situation where the sun never reached it, 

 and could not have had a hand in heating or blistering the leaves; and 

 quite recently in Bushy Park, Terenure — one spotted clump among 

 many unspotted— in a place exposed to direct sunlight while the trees 

 are still leafless. The leaves in both cases were quite smooth —not raised 

 at the blotches. My wife tells me that the spotted form is the common 

 one in the Schleswig woods, and that she never noticed the "pseudo- 

 blisters " there. The leaves of the Lesser Celendine frequently bear 

 purplish blotches similar to those of the Arum, and often pale blotches 

 also; and the Sit-fast has sometimes leaves with blackish markings. I 

 have not observed, ii: any of these cases, a connection between the light- 

 ing and the presence of blotches. The Bloody Dock furnishes an instance 

 comparable to that of Arum, of a plant the leaves of which in Ireland 

 very seldom develop the character fiom which the species derives its 

 name. 



R. L1.0YD Prakger. 



Dublin. 



June lis tenuis in Co. Down. 



Mr. S. A. Stewart authorizes me to state that he has found /uncus 

 lenuis in Co. Down The specimens were collected in August, 1899, on 

 the south side of Belfast Harbour, and put aside for future examination. 

 He hopes to work out its distribution during the coming season. 



Dublin. R. L i^oyd^Praeger. 



Alpine Botanists in Kerry. 



Rev. David Paul, LL.D., has contributed to the Transactions of the 

 Botanical Society of Edinburgh for 1902 a ten-page account of the visit 

 of the Scottish Alpine Botanical Club to Kerry in 1901. The party had 

 the advantage of the guidance of Dr. Scully and Mr. Colgan, and appear 

 to have seen most of the good plants of the district — though, curiously, 

 we observe uo single alpine species in the narrative or in the list. 



ZOOLOGY. 



Beetles in the Broth. 



From a brew of mutton broth, recently produced at our own table, my 

 wife and I collected a number of specimens of a small weevil, which Mr. 

 Halbert identifies as Calandra granaria, L., well known for its ravages in 

 granaries. The species has been previously taken in Dublin, in 1854 and 

 1855, as noted in Johnson and Halbert's list. It is sometimes immensely 

 abundant in flour. In this instance it came in barley, purchased from a 

 grocer in Rathgar. 



Dublin. R. Li^oyd PraeGER. 



