30 The Irish Naturalist, February 



I myself have been spending some time in the West. 

 Inishturk has been surveyed,^ and the range of Hclian- 

 thanuni giittatum extended into West MaN'o. Lough Carra 

 has been examined;- its best plant being Ncoiiiiea intacta (in 

 three stations), which here reaches its northern limit in 

 Ireland and in Europe. The extreme south-western corner 

 of Connemara has been shown '^ to possess a ver}* interesting 

 group of calcicole plants. Of these, Ncotijica intacta, Ajiiga 

 pyramidalis^ and Euphrasia Salisbingcusis have not previously 

 been known except on the limestone pavements (the last also 

 on limestone hills). Ranuncidiis scotiais^ has been found to 

 come down from its sub-alpine stations in Achill and Fer- 

 managh, and to grow abundauth' on the limestone shores of 

 Lough Corrib. 



In the matter of our alien flora, Miss Knowles^ has supplied 

 an interesting study of a large group of casuals growing 

 near Straffan. beside a house where grain siftings had been 

 used for feeding fowl. Such colonies of alien immigrants 

 are the recruiting ground for eventual additions to the per- 

 manent established flora, and deser^'e more attention than 

 they have hitherto received in this countr3'. 



Before proceeding to list the new county records, two 

 records have to be withdrawn from " Irish Topographical 

 Botan}'.'' Both arise from clerical errors, the notes in each 

 case having been inadverrentl5^ placed under the wrong 

 division. These are : — 



Caleopsis versicolor, Curt. — "Near Fox ford ;** attributed to 



Galwa\- \V. ; belongs to Mayo E. 

 PoIypodiuiTi Phe&optcris, L. — " S.W. of Sheve Aughta f attributed 



to Gaiway S.E. ; belongs to Clare. 



I shall now, as in previous years, list the new county- 

 records first under their respective botanical divisions. All 

 published new records have appeared in the I?ish Naturalist, 

 which has made it an eas}' matter to give, by means of a 

 volume and page number, a reference in each case to the 

 original record. Then the new county records will be 

 re-listed in sj'stematic order : and, finally, those records 

 which have not been published (on this occasion few in 

 number) will be dealt with, and particulars of each given. 



* Irish NcU., xvi.j 113-125. 1907. *Ibid., xv., 207-214. 1906. ^ Ilfid., xv., 257- 

 266, 1906; and xvi., 241-243, 1907. * Ibid., x^-i., 159. 1907. ^Rid., xv., 143- 

 150. 1906. 



