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Puccinia major, Dietel. — On Crepis paludosa. Trim, Co. Meath. 



P. Polygoni-amphibii, Pers. — On Polygonum amphihium, Lough Neagh, 



Co. Derry, and near Giant's Causeway, Co. Antrim. 

 P. Valantiae, Pers. — On Galium saxatile, Howth Head, Co. Dublin. 

 t P. Zopfii, Winter. — On Caltha palustris, R. Dodder, Co. Dublin. 

 Melampsora Larici-pentandrae, Kleb. — On Salix pentandra, Cookstown 



Junction station, Co. Antrim. 



ASCOMYCETES. 



Mycospha5r3lIa Rumicii (Desm.) — On Rumex obtusifolhis, Beauparc, Co. 

 Meath (conidial stage, := Ovularia ohliqua, Cooke). 



PHYCOMYCETES. 



Synchytrium aureum, Schrot. ( =■. S. plantagineum Sacc). — On Plantago 



lanceolata, Antrim, 

 t S. Succisae, De B. et Wor. — On Scabiosa succisa, Leixlip station, Co. 



Kildare. 



DEUTEEOMYCETES. 



I Darluca genistalis, (Fckl.) Sacc. — On sori of Uromyces Anthyllidis, 



R. Dodder, Co. Dublin. 

 t Ascochyta Brassicae, Thiim. — On cabbage leaf, Antrim. 

 Seploria Podagrariae, Lasch. (= 5. Aegopodii Desm.). — On Goutweed 



Antrim. 

 Ovularia primulana, Karst. — On Primrose, Ballyquirke Lake, Co. Galway. 



Specimens of all these are deposited in the National 

 Herbarium, Dublin. 



The University, Birmingham. 



NEWS GLEANINGS. 



Royal Society's Conversazione. 



At the recent May conversazione of the Royal Society, Prof. C. J. 

 Patten, M.D., showed a selection of specimens and photographs illustrat- 

 ing some features in bird migration observed during eight weeks' 

 residence at the Tuskar Rock lighthouse, Co. Wexford. The exhibit 

 demonstrated that birds supposed by some observers not to migrate 

 or only to do so in a very desultory manner, have been found migrating 

 in considerable numbers together. 



The Royal Irish Academy. 



Naturalists elected into the Royal Irish Academy at the recent Annual 

 Meeting are C. B. Moffat, N. H. Foster, G. P. Farran, A. R. Dwerry- 

 house, Prof. Gwynne-Vaughan, A. W. Stelfox, and W. B. Wright. 



