1899O PRAKGKR. — A Botaiiist i?i the Central Plain. 103 



* Euphorbia cyparissias, L.— V. Kiladre— several large patches 

 on railway banks at the Curragh, far from any house. 



Potamc\geton f Iabellatus, Bab. — III. Careow— in the Barrow 

 below Graiguenamanagh. IV. Wexford — brackish pool north of 

 Courtown Harbour; this was recorded under the aggregate name 

 of P. pectinatus, L/., in Irish Naturalist, III., 241. 



Carex muricata, L,. — VII. N. Tipperary— near Friar's Lough, 



Portumna. 



Chara vulgaris, L-, var Iongibracteata, Kuetz. — III. Kilkenny 

 — pool near Granny. 



C. fragilis, Desv., var. bar bat a, Gant.— III. Kilkenny— Urlingford. 

 Queen's Co — Rathdowney. V. Kii/dare -canal east of Rathangan. 



NOTES. 



The following resolution was passed by the Cork Naturalists' Field 

 Club at their meeting on February 2 : — That the best thanks of the 

 C.N.F.C. be given to the Editors of the second edition of Cybeh Hibemica 

 on the completion of a volume so necessary to Irish Botanists. 



We would refer our readers who desire an illuminating discussion of 

 important points connected with the structure of this country to the 

 series of articles from the pen of Prof. Cole which have appeared in 

 Know/edge during the latter half of last year. 



The Belfast Club has inaugurated a "Science-gossip half-hour" on 

 each night of meeting, preceding the formal business. This furnishes 

 an opportunity for informal discussion, for inquiry, and for interchange 

 of ideas, and should prove most beneficial. The same object is served 

 by the tea half-hour at the Dublin Club. 



We have received the Reports of the Moss Exchange Club for 1896, '7, 

 and '8. This Society, founded by the President of the Belfast Field Club, 

 appears to have embarked on a prosperous and useful career, and we 

 congratulate Mr. Waddell on the success of his undertaking. The formal 

 reports are accompanied by critical notes on many of the plants sent in. 



The only item in the recently-issued Report and Proceedings of the 

 Belfast Natural History and Philosophical Society for 1897-98 bearing on 

 Irish natural history is an abstract of Mr. Robert Vouug's paper on some 

 recent deep borings for water at Belfast. Records of this kind are of 

 much importance, and are far too often overlooked. Mr. Young gives 

 the results of fourteen deep borings, mentioning the strata passed through, 

 and the amount of water obtained. Unfortunately the borings were not 

 watched over constantly by a scientific man — it is difficult to arrange 

 that they should be — and in consequence the geological information is 

 often of a scanty and vague description. 



