1909. iVo/es 99 



NOTES. 



BOTANY. 



Montia lamprosperma Cham, in County Down, 



Recently my attentiou having" been called to the occurrence of this 

 plant in the Faeroes, I was led to examine my specimens from the North 

 of Britain. I was glad to find it represented by a specimen from Ross, 

 Aberdeen (Loch-na-Go\v. 3,400 feet 1, etc., and also by a specimen gathered 

 in ihe hills above Newcastle, County Down. It is an addition to the 

 British flora, at any rate in name. 



It may be known from J/. foiita)ia hy its larger chesnut brown seeds, 

 which are glossy t.nd reticulated. In fontana the seeds are smaller, dead 

 dull black, and covered with acute tubercles. M. rivalaris Gmel. has the 

 tubercles less acute. In the last edition of Koch's German flora it is 

 kept as a distinct species. 



G. Cr.ARIDGF, Druck. 



Oxford. 



ZOOLOGY. 

 Doris flammea from the Clare Coast. 



On the i5tli February last I received a fresh specimen of this rare and 

 handsome sea-.slug from :\Ir. R. A. Phillips, who had found it the day 

 before on a rock at half-tide near Kilkee, Co. Clare. There appear to be 

 only three previous Irish records for this species, two from vSouth-west 

 Ireland and one from Galway. The Kilkee specimen was one inch long 

 and agreed perfectly in colour and f.orm with the plate in Alder and 

 Hancock's ^Monograph. 



X. Cor.GAX. 

 Sandycove. e'o. Dublin. 



Little Gull in Co. Meath. 



A specimen of the Little Chill {Lams i)iinuiu^\ in adult winter plumage 

 was killed about the 7th March, in a field between the railway line and 

 the sea-shore near Laytown, and forwarded to me in the flesh. This 

 gull is rare in Ireland, no specimen having been recorded .since 1876, if 

 we except this one and possibly another lately reported from Cork— but 

 not 3"et verified. The Laytown locality appears to be in Co, ^Nleath. 



R. ^I. B.ARRIXGTOX. 



Fassaroe. Bray. 



Herrings at Killala Bay. 



To the Zoologist for January, ]\Ir. R. Warren contributes a note on some 

 recent remarkable takes of herrings trappe.l inside the training walls at 

 the niouth of the Mov. 



