19S The hish Naturalist. [August, 



PROCEEDINGS OF IRISH SOCIETIES. 



RoYAiv ZooivOGiCAiv Society. 



Recent gifts include five Choughs from Sergt. M'Goldrick, a pair of 

 Long-eared Owls from Messrs. C. and S. Ross, a pair of Red-breasted 

 Mergansers from Mrs. Rathborne, a Civet Cat, two Sooty Monkeys, two 

 Crown Cranes, two Touracoos, a Kite and a Royal P3'thon from Mr. 

 Justice Smyly, and five Seagulls from Mr. Justice Boyd. Four Choughs 

 and five Cormorants have been bought. 



Over 15,000 persons visited the Gardens in June. 



NOTES. 



BOTANY. 

 PHANEROGAMS. 



lYIedlcag^o maculata In Co. Wic^tlow. 



A large patch of this rare colonist occurs in a small field adjoining 

 Rathuew Station, Co. Wicklow. It forms a mass, two or three square 

 yards in extent, completeh' exterminating the grass, and is so marked 

 as to be readily seen from the train. The station-master informs me it 

 has been there for several years. It is probably not native anywhere in 

 Ireland, and even as a colonist is only recorded in the Cybcle Hibernica 

 from one or two districts. The plant was brought under my notice by 

 a friend, and I have not had an opportunity of observing whether it has 

 spread to any distance, or is confined only to its own patch. 



Greenwood Pim. 



Monkstown, Co. Dublin. 



Teesdalla nudlcaulls In North-east of Ireland. 



In June of the present year I had the gratification of detecting this 

 Crucifer growing amongst others — Cardaminc hirsuta and Capsella Bursa- 

 pastoris — at the side of a field bordering on the Lagan Canal at Glen- 

 more, near Lisburu, Co. Antrim. The plant was first recognised in 

 Ireland by Mrs. Leebody in June, 1896, at Washing Bay on Lough 

 Neagh, Co. Tyrone ; the only Irish locality for which it has hitherto 

 been recorded. (Praeger in Jr. Nat., vol. v., p. 212.) Whether accepted 

 as a true native in that place I am not aware ; but the British distribu- 

 tion of Teesdalia, occurring as it does in sixty-seven of the counties and 

 vice-counties of Watson's " Topographical Botany," is such as would 

 lead us to expect it in Ireland. At Glenmore it seems likely that it may 

 have been a casual introduction, and that from its County Tyrone 

 station, inasmuch as at the sj^ot where it occurs there was discharged, 



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