1899.1" Notes. 161 



Geranium rotundifolium, L. in Co. Wexford. 



On August loth, last year, I noticed a few plants of Geranium rotundifolium 



growing near New Ross, but had not time to investigate its distribution 



in the district until May 25th, this year, when I was again in the 



neighbourhood, and found that it occurs abundantly on some rocks 



about half a mile south of the town, and sparingly at intervals along the 



rocky sides of the road leading from that into the town. As the only 



other known Irish stations for this species are in counties Cork and 



Clare it makes an interesting addition to the flora of District 1V» 



Geranium columbinum, already recorded from other localities in Co ( 



Wexford, also grows on these rocks. 



R. A. Philips. 

 Cork. 



Teesdalia nudicaulis in Co. Down. 



A ) r ear ago I had the pleasure of detecting Teesdalia nudicaulis in Co. 

 Antrim. This year I have met with it, in some abundance, in the 

 adjoining County of Down, in a shady place near the filtering ponds of 

 the pleasantly situated bleaching grounds at Lambeg, bordering on the 

 River Lagan. The conditions of the place where it grows, and where it 

 would seem to have been long established, point to its having come 

 thither by the canal with sand from Lough Neagh, possibly from the 

 Co. Tyrone shore, where it is known to occur. In the last named station, 

 where the species was first discovered in Ireland, the editors of Cybele 

 Hiberniea consider it a doubtful native, but have, nevertheless, admitted 

 it, provisionally, to a place in the Irish flora. Teesdalia has a wide comital 

 distribution in England and Wales, extending into vScotland, and if, as 

 seems likely, it should have come to Ireland to stay, our flora will be 

 enriched by the addition of one of the most distinct and interesting 

 species of Crueiferce. 



J. H. DAVIES. 



Lisburn. 



ZOOLOGY. 



Phenological Notes from Co. Tipperary. 



As the May number of the Irish Naturalist does not make any announce- 

 ment of the arrival of summer migrants to Ireland I send particulars of 

 which those have come under my notice. Wheatear (seen by a friend) } 

 25th March; Sand Martin (seen by a friend), 31st March; Sand Martin (seen 

 by myself), 5th April ; House Martin, 5th April ; Chiff-chaff, 1st April ; 

 Willow Wren, 6th April; Meadow-pipit, 7th April; Sandpiper, 8th April; 

 Swallow, 19th April ; Sedge Warbler and Cuckoo, 23rd April ; Corn- 

 crake, 25th April ; Swift, 27th April ; Reed Warbler, 4th May. 



A large number of Reed Buntings made their appearance on the 

 Nenagh River and shores of Lough Derg about the 20th of April, and 

 flocks of May Birds or Whimbrel passed over Lough Derg from the Co. 

 Gal way on 7 th May. 



