Tlic bdsh Land arid Freshwater Molhisca. i8i 



Genus— ANOBONTA. 

 Anodonta cygnea, L. 

 I. — — — V. — VII. — IX. X. — XII. 



Many aiithors believe that all the European Anodonta: are referable to 

 two species, and that the Irish A. cygnea is merely one of the numerous 

 forms of ^. variabilis, Drap. ; but I would prefer for the present to retain 

 the species under its old name. In many of the northern lakes it is ex- 

 tremely common, and is said to be eaten by the peasantry. 



Foreign Distribution. — Great Britain, south vScandinavia, Finland, 

 Russia, Transylvania, Austria, Germany, Switzerland, Italy, Sicily, 

 France, Spain, Portugal, Turkestan, Siberia, and Canada. 



ADDEJNDUM. 



I unfortunately omitted in my list of papers on Irish 

 Mollusca to refer to Miss Warren's paper on the Mollusca of 

 Ma3^o and Sligo {Zoologist, 1879), and to Mr. A. G. More's 

 ''Note on the animal of Liinncea involuta,'' {^Ann. Mag. Nat. 

 Hist., 4th ser.vol. iv., 1869). The latter contains a good figure 

 and description of the animal and shell of this remarkable 

 Irish mollusc, and the author points out the mistake made by 

 some conchologists in placing it under the genus Aviphipeplea 



CORRIGENDUM. 



I have also to draw attention to a slip in the records of 

 Geoinalacus maculosus. It does not occur in district II. 



THE CHARACTERISTIC PI.ANTS OF CO. WEXFORD. 



BY G. K. H. BARRKTT-HAMILTON AND C. B, MOFFAT. 



{Concluded from page 1 58*) 



Wahlenbergia hederacea, Reich.— A characteristic plant in the valley of 

 the river Urrin, and by the higher feeders of the Boro (C. B. M.). 



C All frequent in upland pastures of N. W. 



Chlora i^erfoliat;, T inn ^^^ ^^^^ seems widely distributed through- 



Clilora perfoliata Lmn. ^^^ ^^^ county, while Gmtiana campestris 



Gentiana amarella, „ ^ ^^ppears^he least plentiful, and, unlike the 

 Cr. campestris, „ ^^^^^ ^^,^^ ^^^^ not been recorded as found 



\ on the coast by Mr. Hart. 

 Erythrsea pulchella, Fries.— Curacloa (QV^ Ilib. ^w/-/.)— Near Rosslare, 



and on the Greater Saltee Island (Hart). 

 Convolvulus soldanella, Linn.— Common on the south, locally abundant 



on the east coast (Hart). 

 Cyjiog-lossum officinale, Linn. — Carnsore, Caliore, and Rosslare Points, 



Ballymoney, Churchtown, etc, (Hart). 

 Echium vulgare, Linn.— Frequent, especially on high ground towards 



the north-west. 

 Myosotis collina, Hoffm. — Two localities on east coast, at Courtown 



(Hart), and Rosslare (G. E. H. B.-H.). 



