156 The Irish Nalunili^l. Jul}" 



NOTES. 



BOTANY. 



British Vegetation Committee. 



The Central Committee for llic vSurvey and vStiuly of British Vegetation 

 met at Cambridge on April 24th to 26th. Present : — A. G. Tansley, INI. A. 

 (in the chair) ; M. Hardy, Ph. D. : F. J. Lewis, F.L.vS. ; C. E. Moss, M.Sc. : 

 Prof. F. W. Oliver, F.r!s. ; G. H. Pethybridge, Ph.D., B.Sc. : R. Lloyd 

 Praeger, B.E. ; W. M. Rankin, W. G. vSmith, Ph.D.; Prof F. E. Weiss, 

 D.Sc. ; T. W. Woodhead, M.A. The first day was devoted to committee 

 work and to communications and discussions. On the two succeeding 

 days excursions were held, in the company of various Cambridge 

 botanists, and the members saw among other things the Oxlip growing 

 and flowering in great profusion in woods on stiff clay, and various types 

 of woods and of sandy heaths, which were studied with much interest. 



Splachnum vasculosum L. not an Irish Plant. 



This moss has no claim to be in the Iiish List, although it was inserted 

 for several County Divisions in the Catalogue published by the Moss 

 Exchange Club. It is an alpine species found in Britain only in the 

 vScotch highlands. I have made inquiries, and am told the error arose 

 from a mistake of old synonyms, and that the records belong to .V. 

 sphcericum Swartz. 



C. H. W.VDDKI^L. 



Saintfield. 



Habenaria intacta in West Galway. 



Asa small contribution towards our knowledge of the distribution of 

 that very interesting orchid, Habenaria intacta, Benth., which Mr. Praeger's 

 recent explorations have done so much to define, I may record its occur- 

 rence on Gentian Hill, on Galway Bay. I found it there on May 30, a 

 small colony of about sixteen plants, some of them still in bloom, but 

 the majority going into fruit. It occurs on the west side of the liill, on 

 the roughly terraced pa.sture, between the gorse zone and the summit 

 level. This is an additional station for Galway West. 



I may mention that, on the same occasion, I met with Cciastium ar- 

 vane, var. Andreivsii, Syme, growing sparingly on a sand}- spit of 

 closely-eaten pasture, just above high water mark, by the narrow muddy 

 inlet on the east side of Gentian Hill. This noticeable variety of the 

 Large-flowered Mouse-ear, though frequent on the Aran Islands, and 

 occurring also on the Clare side of Galway Bay, does not appear to have 

 been recorded from West Galway before. 



W. J. C. Tom MX SOX. 



Belfast. 



