1903- Notes, 247 



Hieracium sciaphilum in Co. Dublin. 



Some years ago when travelling on the Great Southern and Western 

 Railway, my friend, Dr. Scully, saw from the carriage window a plant 

 which appeared to him to have all the aspect of a Hawkweed, growing 

 near the top of a high retaining wall b}'^ the railway cutting east of 

 Inchicore. He urged me to examine this part of the line and see 

 whether the plant was really what he firmly believed it to be, a Hawk- 

 weed. It was only in June of this year that I found an opportunity of 

 walking along this section of the line, and a very short search was enough 

 to show that a Hawkweed obviously new to the county was established 

 in profusion along the deep cutting between Island Bridge and Inchi- 

 core. The plant for fully 100 yards clothed almost the whole surface of 

 the high wail which here bounds the southern side of the cutting and 

 spread all over the opposite or northern embankment for about a quarter 

 of a mile. The plants on the embankment were vigorous and in fine 

 flower ; those on the lower parts of the opposite wall, which faces nearly 

 due north, were small and flowerless, only the few which reached fully 

 light and air at or near the top of the wall making bloom sufficient to 

 catch the eye of the passenger travelling by rail on the up-line. My 

 identification of the plant as H. sciaphilum (Uechtritz) is confirmed by 

 the Rev. W. R. I^inton, who has kindly examined specimens. Though 

 new to Dublin, Mr. Praeger has already recorded the plant in his 

 Topographical Botany from the same railway in Co. Kildare. 



NathanieTv Coi^gan. 

 Sandycove, Co. Dublin. 



Ranunculus circinatus in Co. Antrim. 



This characteristic member of the Water Crowfoot group of plants I 

 discovered on Saturday, June 27th last, growing abundantly in the Lagan 

 Canal at Aghagallon, County Antrim. Essentially a " Central Plain " 

 plant, it was first recorded from Ulster in 1892 by Mr. R. LI. Praeger, 

 who found it inside the County Down area at the junction of the canal 

 with Lough Neagh, three miles to the south-west of the present station. 

 He also found it plentiful at Derryadd Ba}', in Armagh, three miles 

 further south-west. I had walked up from the foot of the canal, and 

 first observed it at the Chapel locks, just below Aghagallon ; it continued 

 plentiful for fully half a mile. At Aghalee another form, most probably 

 R. heterophylliis, was observed, but the specimens secured were hardly 

 satisfactory enough for identification with certainty. 



W. J. C. TOMI^INSON. 



Belfast. 



ZOOLOGY. 



Land Shell Pockets. 



To the current number of the Journal of Conchology (July), R. Welch 

 contributes a short paper on " Pockets of Land Molluscs, found on the 

 Portstewart dunes, Co. Derry." 



