Proceedings of Irish Societies. 77 



Limerick Naturai,ists' Fiei<d CIvUB. 



Jan. 24th. — Dr. W. A. Fogerty, Vice-President, in the chair. Mr. Joseph 

 Wright lectured on " Foraminifera, Recent and Fossil," examples being 

 shown from varying strata— Chalk, Lias, esttiarine, and Boulder clays from 

 the North ot Ireland, as well as recent specimens dredged in the Atlantic 

 Ocean on some of the expeditions sent out by the Royal Irish Academj'. 

 Besides these, the lecture was illustrated by a number of diagrams, 

 photographic lantern slides, &c., exhibiting the marvellous beauty and 

 complexit}^ of the shells formed by these very minute creatures. Mr. 

 Wright's visit to Limerick marks a new departure in Field Club work in 

 Ireland, he having come here by arrangement with the recently-formed 

 Field Club Union as representing the Belfast Club, whereby an inter- 

 change of lectures is to take place occasionally in future amongst the 

 various Irish Field Clubs. On the motion of Mr. Robert Gibson, a 

 hearty vote of thanks was unanimously passed to Mr. Wright for his 

 interesting lecture. 



NOTES 



BOTANY. 



CHARACE.^. 



Irish Characeae. — A Correction. — In Messrs. Groves' paper, 

 under Nitella Jlexilis (p. 40) " 148. Antrim — Carnlough River. 1892. R. 

 LI. Praeger " should read " 145, Armagh— Camlough River. 1892. 

 R. LI. Praeger." The mistake was mine, as I find that on the label 

 of the specimen submitted to Messrs, Groves, " Antrim " was written by 

 inadvertence for "Armagh." The fact that I had sent other specimens 

 from Carnlough, explains the second alteration. .A^. flexilis is still a 

 desideratum of the flora of North-east Ireland. 



R. Lt.oyd Praeger. 



PHANEROGAMS. 



Second Flowering of Artemisia stelleriana. -Mr. Praeger, in 

 the Irish Naturalist for November, refers to the interesting fact of this 

 Artemisia coming twice into flower on the North Bull in the summer of 

 1894. It may be worth mentioning that it continued to flower into the 

 second week of December, In the middle of October it was in profuse 

 bloom, and to the best of my recollection I also saw it in flower in the 

 autumn of 1S93. 



C. B. Moffat, Ballyhyland, Co. Wexford. 



Eythraea pulchella on the North Bull. — lean corroborate Mr. 

 Scully's statement as to this plant's still growing on the North Bulk I 

 gathered it there last summer, about a mile north of the station given 

 by Mr. Scully. 



R. Li,OYD Praeger. 



ZOOLOGY. 



mSECTS, 



Erebia epiphron, var. casslope, near Sligro. — I am glad 

 to be able to record the rediscovery of this mountain butterfly in 

 Ireland. For forty years, since the late Mr. Birchall took " a fine series 

 in June, 1854 . . . about halfway up Croagh Patrick on the Westport side 

 in a grassy hollow," no entomologist has seen the species in this countr}-. 

 The captor of the specimen now recorded is the Rev. R. A. M'Clean, 



