DUBLIN NATURAL HIBTOBY SOCIETY. 45 



MAY, 1853. 



RECORD OF TRICHOMANBS RADICANB AT VALENTIA, KERRY. 



Professor Harvey recorded a new locality of Trichomanes radicans, beinp^ a 

 notice of a communication that had been made to him of the discovery of this 

 beautiful fern in the Island of Valentia, county of Kerry. Notices of that fern 

 had so frequently been brought before the Society, that he thought it unneces- 

 sary to allude to it further than to state that it had recently been discovered at 

 Valentia by Miss Helen Blackburne, daughter of Mr. Blackburne, the Director 

 of the Valentia Slate Establishment. She also found growing with it Quantities 

 of Hymenophyllum Wilsoni and Tunbridgense. The little priestess of tne temple 

 intends keeping the retreat sacred, and will only introduce those votaries whose 

 pure love of the science will reverence the station. Dr. Harvey brought the 

 notice before the meeting, as he considered the Society the proper channel for 

 recording such discoveries. The specimen sent to him, which he submitted, 

 Dr. Harvey said was identical with the Killarney form, and not with that of the 

 Trichomanes which had been discovered farther west. He would mention the 

 singular circumstance that Trichomanes had not been known to exist in North 

 America until last year, when it was discovered in Alabama. A new species had 

 been discovered this year in America. 



Mr. Kinahan said he took the opportunity of exhibiting several forms of Tri- 

 choqnanes from near Youghal. He mentioned their peculiarities and habits, and 

 observed that some were found growing on the face of barren and almost inac- 

 cessible rocks ; others in the shaded and moist crevices of dripping rocks ; 

 while other plants he found altogether growing in bog mould. 



Mr. Andrews said that a variety of opinions had been oflFered and entertained 

 as to the species of Trichomanes found in the south-west of Ireland. The Kil- 

 larney form of the frond was triangular, the lowest pinnae being the longest, and 

 bipinnated. The plants found in Glouin Caragh had the fronds lanceolate, the 

 lowest pinnsB being the shortest, and bipinnated. The winging of the involucre 

 had also been noticed as peculiar. It was of much interest to hear of its disco- 

 very in so bleak and unsheltered a position as Valentia Island presented ; and 

 he thought the meeting of Hymenophyllum Tunbridgense there equally interest- 

 ing. Mr. Andrews said that he first found Trichomanes at Mount Eagle, west 

 of Dingle, a very rocky and barren locality. No doubt, trees flourished at one 

 period both at Mount Eagle and at Valentia, and Trichomanes might then have 

 grown abundantly in those places. The Hon. Dayrolles De Moleyns had also 

 discovered a station of Trichomanes near Dingle. 



MAY, 1854. 



RECORD OF DISCOVERY OF ELYMQS EUROP^US IN IRELAND, AND OF TRICHOMANES 

 RADICANS IN THE COUNTY OF CORK. 



Mr. Andrews exhibited specimens of Elymus Eoropseus of Linnieus, Hor- 

 deum sylvaticum of Hudson, which had been sent to him by Mr. John Bain, of 

 the Botanic Gardens. Trinity College. Mr. Bain discovered this grass in the 

 woods at Mount Merrion, the seat of the Right Hon. Sidney Herbert, and he at 

 once detected it as new to the Flora of the country. It grew in some abundance, 

 and, being of no value as an agricultural grass, it is not likely to have been in- 

 troduced. 



Mr. Andrews also brought to notice and exhibited specimens of Trichomanes 

 radicans and Ophrys rauscifera, which were sent to him by Mr. Thomas Chandlee, 

 of Cork, who promised to be a most assiduous botanist. Mr. Chandlee had already 

 drawn up a Flora of the Phsenogamous and Cryptogamous plants of Fermoy. 

 Mr. Chandlee ob-serves, that he was in company with Mr. Isaac Carroll of Cork 



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