Vol. xxxiii., No. 3. 



March, 1923. 



CONTENTS. 



The Study of Common Wild Flowers: A plea for closer 

 • Investigation— C. B. Moffat, b.a., m.r.i.a. 



Irish Sphagna— William Lee 



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Irish Societies ; , 



Dublin Microscopical Club , . . . ... . . ' . • 



Belfast Naturalists' Field Club 



Notes : 



Sleeping Habits of the Tree-Creeper — C, B. Moffat 



Sandwich Terms at Rosslare, Co. Wexford— W. M. Abbott 



Recent Records of Irish Birds . » 



Colour-Variation, in Cowslip and Primrose — R. Lloyd Praeger . . 



Erica stricta in Antrim and Derry — R. Lloyd Praeger 



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