54 The Irish Naturalist. March, 



NOTES FROM THE WEST COAST. 



BY A. R. SANDERSON AND C. A. CHEETHAM. 



Last year three visits were paid to the west, the first being 

 at Easter to Killybegs, County Donegal, where we were 

 somewhat surprised to see Honeysuckle and Vicia sylvatica 

 in bud. The same plants of Vicia sylvatica were still flower- 

 ing when we again visited the district late in August. The 

 most noteworth}/^ point of the Easter visit was the exceed- 

 ingly fine show of Furze and Primroses. During our second 

 visit to this district we were delighted to see Sisyrinchium 

 angusti folium in a third station about two miles from 

 Killybegs ; this station, as the two former, was a meadow 

 immediately adjoining the shore. It seems rather curious 

 that we should find this plant in three stations in Donegal 

 invariably near the shore, for, although always on the look- 

 out for it further inland, so far we have failed to locate it. 

 Some work was done amongst the mosses, and C. A, 

 Cheetham reports the following species from this district 

 as additions to the 1907 Census Catalogue of British Mosses : 



Fissidens bryoides, Hedw. Thuidium delicatulum, Mitt. 



,, decipiens, De Not. Camptothecium lutescens, 

 Tortula muralis, Hedw. B. and S. 



Splachnum ampullaceum, L. Eurynchium praelongum, 

 Funaria ericitorum, Dixon. Hohk. 



,, hygrometrica, Sihth. Amblystegium varians, Lindb. 



Webera nutans, Hedw. Hypnum scorpioides, L. 



Bryum caespiticeum, L. Hylocomium brevirostre, 



,, argenteum, L. B. and S. 



Mnium affine, var. elatum, 



. B. and S. 



The following hydroid zoophytes are in addition to those 

 mentioned in our list for 1910 (Irish Nat., April, 1910) : — 



Eudendrium insigne. Tubularia coronata, 



Tubularia indivisa. Plumularia setacea. 



,, larynx. Coryne vaginata. 



