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acclimatise new species in Ireland, I beg leave to assure my brother 

 entomologists that none of the three or four species of Lepidoptera experi- 

 mented with by me from time to time are such as would be taken to be 

 indigenous in Ireland. Particulars will be given in my Catalogue, and 

 if any of these exotics should turn up at any time their origin will be at 

 once traceable. But I cannot flatter raj-self that any success has been 

 attained. No erroneous conclusions therefore are possible under these 

 circumstances. All such experiments ought to be conducted with due 

 precautions against such a contingency, and duly recorded to prevent 

 error. I join heartily in reprobating, in the strongest manner, any 

 careless introduction of British species into our island fauna. 



Wm. Francis de V. Kane. 



NOTES. 



BOTANY. 



PHANEROGAMS. 



Irish teramblcs. — In th.^ Journal of Botany for January, Mr. Praeger 

 gives a further enumeration of Brambles collected by him in Ireland, 

 and named by Dr. O. Focke and Rev. Moyle Rogers ; of these R, viicans 

 and A', saxicolus do not appear to have been noted in Ireland hitherto, 

 and most of the other notes form new district records. 



Vicia lathyroidcs, L., In Co. WIcklow.— In the early spring of 

 this year I gathered this rare plant in some plenty growing on the flats 

 amone the sandhills just south of Arklow. 



'^^ R. W. SCUI.I.Y, Dublin. 



Erythreea pulchclla, Fr., and Polypogon monspeliensis, 

 Dcsf. on the North Bull. — I was glad to re-find this ^;ji'///;v?a last 

 summer near the coastguard's garden. Mr. More tells me it has not 

 been seen on the Bull for some years. One fine tuft of the Polypogon — a 

 most beautiful grass— was growing in a neglected patch of the coast- 

 guard's garden, no doubt introduced with seeds. 



R. W. SCQI.I.Y. 



Some Cork Aliens.— In the summer of 1891 I came across the fol- 

 lowing aliens growing on an extensive rubbish heap beside the river 

 Lee in the City of Cork. The rubbish heap was apparently derived from 

 a lar""e distillery in the immediate neighbourhood. Alyssiini calyciniini, L., 

 Sisy inln-iuiii pannonicum, ]2iC(\., E>ysitnnm oruntalc, R, Br., E. repandum, L., 

 Camelina sativa, Cratz., Lcpidium perfoliatuni, L., Thlaspi arvense,!-,., Anthcmis 

 arvensis, L., Brovius tecioriim, L. Of these Erysiimim repandtun, Sisymbrium 

 pannonicvin and Brovnis tcctorum occurred in great abundance. Several 

 other plants I have not yet been able to name. It will be interesting to 

 note how long the above will hold their ground, and whether they will 

 spread to neighbouring localities. 



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