»o6 The Irish Naturalist. [September, 



BOTANY. 



Cybeie Hibernica and its Critic. 



In the Journal of Botany for July, the editors of Cybclc Hibernica reply 

 to the remarks of Rev. E. vS. Marshall, which appeared iu the June 

 number, and on which we briefly commented in our last issue. The 

 August number of the Journal of 'Botany contains a further paper by Mr. 

 Marshall, " On the probable status of some Irish Plants," containing 

 some interesting statements and arguments on the subject of certain 

 plants of doubtful standing. The discussion is an interesting one, and 

 will no doubt be attentively followed by Irish botanists. 



Geranium pyrenaicum in South-cast Galway. 



As Geranium pyrenaicum has not been recorded from District VI. in 

 Cybele Hibemica (1898 Ed.), it may be worth mentioning as found growing 

 plentifully by the roadside in one locality in the parish of Kilconicky, 

 near Craughwell. in July and August of the present year. 



Margaret E. Joyce. 



St Clerau's, Craughwell. 



Isoctcs Iacustris in Lough Neaerh. 



The small part of Count)' Down which touches Lough Neagh is 



separated from County Antrim by a streamlet that enters the lough at 



a little bay at Annadroughal. A very short distance from this point, 



Isoetes /acustris, which is there to be claimed for both counties, occurs 



in considerable quantity, as I had the pleasure of observing in 



the middle of last June. Doubtless that part of the shore just indicated 



has oft times been botanically examined, but the plant growing, as it 



does, where the water has a depth of three or tour feet, can hardly be 



seen save in passing over it in a boat. 



J. II. Dayihs. 



Iyisburn. 



ZOOLOGY. 



Ireland and Kamchatka. 



In the Scottish Geographical Magazine^ 1899 (pp. 225-256), Mr. G. E- II. 

 Barrett-Hamilton gives an interesting account of his visit to Kamchatka, 

 when in the far north-east in connection with the Fur-seal Enquiry. 

 Several comparisons are made between the fauna of Kamchatka, and 

 that of the British Isles Among the sea-birds such familiar species 

 as the Common Gull, the Kittiwake, and the Guillemot were observed, 

 but not the Little Auk or the Razorbill. " The Magpie and the Carrion 

 Crow are as evident as in England, but one misses the familiar forms of 

 Rook, Jackdaw and Starling." One point of similarity between the 

 Kamchatka and Irish faunas is "the intermingling of Arctic forms with 

 those which we are more accustomed to associate with the sunny south." 



