1901. Notes. 255 



Sirex gigas in Co. Wat erf or d. 



I have read with interest my friend Mr. L. K. Bonaparte Wyse's note 

 on the above insect (ante, p. 203). It occurs in most seasons in this 

 neighbourhood, but I cannot say that it is common. A fine living 

 specimen was given to me this }*ear by a constable of the Royal Irish 

 Constabulary. He caught it in his house at Portlaw, on 19th August. 



WlI«I,IAM W. FLEMYNG. 

 Coolfin, Portlaw. 



BOTANY. 



New Records and Stations for Cybele District IV. 



I was botanizing for a few weeks this autumn around Rosslare, 

 Wexford, and found Atriplex laciniata and Lcmna polyrhiza, both first 

 records for the above district. 



Atriplex laciniata grows plentifully for half a mile immediately to the 

 southward of Rosslare Coastguard Station. It also occurs for about a 

 dozen yards at Rosslare Harbour; and possibly occupied at one time the 

 intervening mile or two of coast — for the sea seems to be encroaching on 

 the land at this place, and has reached, and is attacking, the base of the 

 clay cliffs. This is a great southward extension of the species, as no 

 station south of Dublin is given in " Cybele." 



Lemna polyrhiza grows plentifully in a wayside pool on the western side 

 of Lady's Island Lake, near a farm called Reedstown on the Ordnance 

 Map. I also found it sparingly in a pool near an old windmill about 

 half a mile south of Broadway, and in fair plenty in a ditch near the sea, 

 close to the little village of Carnabout two miles north of Carnsore 

 Point. 



I also noted the following plants in new stations : — 



Salix Hoffmanniana.—Nzzx Rosslare Harbour Station and near Lady's 

 Island Lake, but evidently planted. 



Lemna gibba. — In great abundance in a pool on the western side of 

 Lady's Island Lake, and plentifully in a pool near an old windmill about 

 half a mile to the south of Broadway. 



Polygonum macu latum,— In fair plenty, and very typical about the south- 

 western corner of Lady's Island Lake. 



Cuscuta Trifolii.— Grows on the bar separating Lady's Island Lake from 

 the sea. It extends eastwards along the coast, and occurs sparingly at 

 Carna on the east coast. 



Potcntilla procumbens. — This plant is quite common in hedge-banks south 

 of Rosslare Harbour Station, and it also grows on the Rosslare sandhills. 



Glyceria Borreri.— Very sparingly on the edge of a salt-marsh pool in the 

 extreme south-western corner of Wexford Harbour. 



Anchusa officinalis and Lycium still hold their ground at Rosslare Point, 

 and Marrubium is in process of naturalization there. 



Cecil P. Hurst. 



Recess, Connemara. 



