142 The Irish Natwalist. [June, 



NOTES. 



BOTANY. 

 FERNS. 



Records of Connemara Ferns. 



About twelve years ago the late Mr. Henry Seebohm gave me Vol. I. 

 of The Naturalist, published 1851. Happening to open it a few days since 

 I found his " List of Ferns found in Connemara" on p. 220. 



This list has two or three very interesting records, which appear in 

 both editions of the Cybele Hibenrica, but strange to say the list itself is 

 nowhere referred to in either. 



Richard M. Barrington. 

 Fassaroe, Bray. 



The records referred to in the above note are no doubt those given for 

 Pilularia and Lycopodium inundatum at pp. 463 and 459 of the second edition 

 of Cybele Hibernica. Mr. Barrington's discovery is of considerable interest 

 as fixing the date of the original records. 



Nathi,. Coi,gan. 

 Reginald W. Scueey. 



Dublin. 



PHANEROGAMS. 



Irish Plants. 



The recently issued 14th Annual Report of the Watson Botanical 

 Exchange Club contains a number of references to Irish plants, collected 

 by Rev. H. W. Lett and Rev. C. H. Waddell. 



Poa nemoralis, L., in Co. Down. 



Although recorded as a Co. Down plant many years ago this grass 

 seems to have been overlooked of late years. It is probably not un- 

 common, and should be looked for in dry shady places, shrubberies, and 

 especially in beech woods. I find it plentiful in such localities at Saint- 

 field. A slender form which I gathered at Beechpark, near Lurgan, but 

 in Co. Down, seems to be a distinct variety, which I hope to collect in 

 larger quantity, and have named. I notice that Rev. H. W. Lett has had 

 a grass named P. nemoralis, in the Report of the Watson Exchange Club 

 lately issued, from Ivy Lodge, Newry, in the southern part of the county. 



C. H. WADDED. 



Saintfield. 



