66 DUBLIN NATITKAL HISTORT SOCIETY. 



UNRBPBESENTED : — 



Dissectum and Sinuatum.— Adiantum, Eupteris, Polystichum, Hemestheum, 

 Gymnocarpium, Osmunda, Botrychium, Ophioglossura, Trichomanes, Hymeno- 

 phyllum, Pseudathyrium, AUosurus, Gymnogramma. 



Laciniatum and Truncatum — Adiantum, Cystopteris, Pseudathyrium, AUo- 

 surus, Gymnogramma, Ctenopteris, Hymenophyllum, Trichomanes, Ophioglos- 



JUNE 16, 1854. 



RECORD OF RARE PLANTS. BT WILLIAM ANDREWS, M.R.LA. 



Mr. Andrews said he was desirous of placing on record some rare plants first 

 noticed at the meetings of the Society. The first was a very remarkable form 

 of Saxifraga geum — fine specimens of which he submitted to the meeting. It 

 was first found by him in the Great Blasket Island, in 1842, and noticed in the 

 Society at the December meeting of that year. It was remarkable for its strong 

 growth and dark hirsute leaves, but more particularly for the glands which sur- 

 round the ovary, and which, in the flowering state of the plant, present a beau- 

 tiful appearance, the glands being of a deep rose-colour. It seemed remarkable 

 in connecting the Saxifragacese with the Parnassiae and Crassulacese ; it pro- 

 duces perfect seeds, and the seedlings present the same characteristics as the 

 parent plant. Dr. Harvey, who took specimens to England, writes : — " Charles 

 Darwin was very much interested in your Blasket Saxifrage, particularly in the 

 fact of its producing perfect seeds. He is working out some observations on the 

 continuability of varieties by seed, and wishes much to know whether the seed- 

 lings from this Saxifrage produce the metamorphic glands of the parent. I told 

 him I thought they did, but would get the full particulars from you." Mr. 

 Andrews said that his friend, Mr. Simon Foot, who cultivated the plant, con- 

 firmed the fact of the seedlings having the same formation of glands as the pa- 

 rent, and informed him that Dr. Lindley observed to him that he considered it 

 would prove to be a plant of great interest. Mr. Andrews also exhibited plants 

 of Saxifraga pedatifida, and Arabis Crantziana, discovered by the Right Hon. 

 John Wynne, of Hazlewood, the Saxifrage in Mayo, and the Arabis on Benbul- 

 ben, Sligo. 



Part II.— ZOOLOGY. 



MAMMALIA. 



DECEMBER 9, 1853. 



ON THE OCCURRENCE OF DAUBENTON's BAT (VESFEBTILIO DAUBENTONIl), IN 

 THE COUNTY OF KILDARE. BY JOHN ROBERT KINAHAN, A.B. 



The bats, particularly in Britain, have been long confessedly a little known, 

 because an almost unstudied, family ; and hence, every observation made con- 

 cerning them or their habits has an interest for the naturalist. It is, therefore, 

 with feelings of great pleasure that I rise to-night to lay before your Society 

 some new, and, as I hope, though scanty, interesting observations, made when, 

 last summer, along with a friend, I had the good fortune to discover a new loca- 

 lity for Daubenton's Bat (V. Daubentonii). The specimens on the table were 

 obtained in Levitstown, in the county of Kildare, under the following circum- 

 stances : — For the first recent specimens of this bat I was indebted to Frederick 



