220 The Irish Naturalist. November, 



QjEsii. 



R. coryllfolius, Sm.— 37. Armagh, rraeger\ 38. Castlewellan, 

 Stewart \ Aghaderg, Lett ! 39. Cairncastle, Stewart ! Cushendall, Bailey ! 



Var. SUblllStrlS (Lees). 3S. Lisdalgin, Saiutfield, Waddell ! Var. eye Io- 

 phyllus (Lindeb). 37. Tartaraghan, Fraegerl Ardmore, Lett ! 39. 

 Larne, Shoolbred\ Widely distributed arid variable. I saw no charac- 

 teristic sublustris growiug. As an aggregate, found by my son to be 

 frequent from Larne to Giant's Causeway. 



R, caesius, Linn. — 37. Scarva. 39. Larne to Giant's Causeway; 

 " fairly common," F. A. Rogers. 



West Bournemouth. 



IRISH SOCIETIES, 



ROYAL ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 



Recent gifts include a Suricate, from Major H. Charasse ; a Diamond 

 Snake, from Mrs. W. de C. Duff; and two Crocodiles, from Dr. Egan. 



DUBLIN MICROSCOPICAL CLUB. 



The Club met on Wednesday, 9th October. 



Mr. F. W. Moore showed flowers of a very minute Orchid (Stelis sp.) 

 from Roraima Mountain. The flowers were not more than s-inch in 

 diameter, and were covered with hairs on the inside of the segments, as 

 well as along the edges. On the outside of the segments there were 

 numerous glandular hairs, which gave a peculiar speckled appearance to 

 the buds. Under a low magnifying power these flowers formed a very 

 pretty object. 



Mr. M'Ardi^E exhibited Lejeunea mici-oscopica, Tayl., in fruit, in which 

 condition it is very rarely found. The delicate papillose perianth bear- 

 ing at the apex the capsule and spores, and the oval antheridia singly 

 enclosed in the leaf lobes, are beautiful objects. 



It is frequent in the Co. Kerry, and is found growing on the leaves of 

 mosses and the larger hepaticse, always sparingly. Mr. M'Ardle showed 

 the specimens as they were collected by himself and Canon Lett, on the 

 bark of Alder, in a damp rocky wood near the shores of Lough Conn, 

 at Pontoon — about three miles from Foxford, Co. Mayo— in May last. 

 The plants cover the bark in neat strata, scarcely discernible to the 

 unaided eye ; there is no record that it has been found in Co. Mayo. |§| ■{ 



He also exhibited the rare Cephalozia Francisci, Hook., fertile, from the 

 same locality. It was found on damp peat, among rocks near the shores 

 of the lake. It is now known to be found in four counties in Ireland, 

 viz. — near Bantry, Co. Cork (Miss Hutchins) ; Hill of Howth, Co. Dublin 

 (D. M'Ardle); Mourne Mountains, Co. Down (Rev. Canon Lett); and 

 Pontoon, Co. Mayo (M'Ardle and Lett, May, 1901). 



