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NOTES. 



The Late J. H. Davies. 



lu coimection with Canon Lett's obituary notice of Mr. j . H. Davies, 

 I wish to rr.ention, as showing the early attachment of our late friend to 

 botanical science and his competence as a bi'yologist, that on November 

 2nd, 1857, he was appointed curator for mosses by the Thirsk Natural 

 History Society and Botanical Exchange Club. This was our first 

 medium for the interchange of plants, and Mr. J. G. Baker, then a young 

 man, but now an F.R.S., was appointed at the same meeting curator of 

 flowers and ferns. 



S. A. Stewart. 

 342, Springfield-road, Belfast. 



BOTANY. 



Geaster rufescens in County Waterford. 



At the end of September, Mr. Louis Grubb sent to me, from Carrick-on- 



Suir, a Geaster, which Mr. H. C. Hawley names G. rtifescens, Persoon. He 



found it at Sheskin, "growing up through the hard coal ashes that 



formed a walk about 540 feet over river level." Three specimens were 



seen. The only previous Irish record for this curious and interesting 



fungus appears to be Monkstown, County Dublin (G. Pirn in " British 



Association Guide to County Dublin, 1878.") 



R, Li^OYD Praegj^r. 

 Dublin. 



Irish Carices. 



The Pfarrer Kiikenthal has recently examined some critical forms of 

 Sedges which I collected in Ireland; they include the following: — 

 Carex viilptna, L-, var. litoralis, Nolte. — Shore of Strangford Lough. 

 C. caryopkyllea Later., forma 7imbrosaefor?>ns, KUkent. — Glen Cahir, Co. 



Clare. It is the var. elatior, Bogenhard, Fl. Jena, p. 378, 1850, under 



C. prauox, and unreported previously from Britain. 

 C. Oederi, Retz, forma canalictdata, Callme. — Toome Bridge, Co. Antrim, 



by the sides of the lough. Also a new form for the United Kingdom, 

 C. Goodenowii, Gay, var. toniata (Fries). — Near Newton, Co. Galway. New 



to Ireland. 

 C. Goodcnaivii^ Gay, ad var. s/ricti/o?'fnis, Kiik. vergens. — Toome Bridge, Co. 



Antrim. 

 C. flava X Oederi. — ^h.oxft of Lough Derg, near Rossmore, Co. Galway. 

 C. ai-enaria, Huds., forma remota, Marss. — Wicklow. 

 C. extensa. Good., var. latifolia^ Boeck. = var. Ecklonii, Kiikent. — Shore of 



Strangford Lough. 



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