250 The Irish NaUiralist. [Sept., 



NOTES. 



BOTANY. 



FUNGI. 



A Big Boletus. 



On a roadside near Stradbally, Queen's Co., last month I found a 

 remarkably large Boletus. It stood 9 inches high, and the pileus 

 measured 42 inches in circumference, and 18 inches in its greatest 

 diameter. The stalk at its junction with the pileus was 13 inches in cir- 

 cumference. It was impossible to bring away such a gigantic specimen, 

 but from my description Dr. M'Weeney believes the species to have been 

 Boletus edulis. 



R. I^I^OYD PraEGER. 



HEP ATI CM. 



A Check-list of British Hepattcs. 



We should like to draw the attention of botanists interested in the 

 Hepatica to the convenient " Catalogue of British Hepaticoe," which Rev. 

 C. H. Waddell has compiled for the Moss Exchange Club. The list is 

 printed in the same style as the " London Catalogue of British Plants," 

 and is intended to serve the same purpose — to facilitate exchanges and 

 the cataloguing of collections. The classification is with some slight 

 exceptions that of the late Dr. Spruce. A useful feature is the addition in 

 italics after the names of many of the species, of synonyms by which the 

 plants are better known to many collectors. This is, indeed, rendered 

 almost necessary by the continual revision and alteration of plant names. 

 The list is well printed on eight pages of good paper, and is published 

 at ^d. by Messrs. W. Wesley & Son, 28, Essex-street, Strand. 



PHANEROGAMS. 

 (Enanthe plmplnelloldes, Linn., In Ireland. 



This rare and interesting plant, which hitherto has not been recorded 

 from Ireland, except in apparent error, grows in some plenty at Tra- 

 bolgan, Co. Cork, where I have seen it during the past two summers. 

 It ranges in patches over a couple of acres of the extensive pastures close 

 to the sea at that place. 



Mr. Arthur Bennett, F.Iv.S., to whom my thanks are due, has kindly 

 examined and identified my specimens. 



The plant is one unlikely to have been introduced, and looks like a 

 native, the habitat being similar to those in which the species occurs in 

 the south of England ; still, pending its discovery in other Irish stations, 

 it will perhaps be safer for the present to regard it as " probably in- 

 digenous. ' 



R. A. Phii^wps. 



