I900.] Notes. 129 



By the courtesy of the Editors we have seen Mr. Harrington's note. 

 The Committee of the Dublin Naturalists' Field Club fully appreciate 

 the value of his suggestions, and indeed had already stipulated that any 

 collection which bore evidence of undue interference with rare plants or 

 animals should be thereby disqualified, and it was only by inadvertence 

 that this was omitted from the printed rules. Intending competitors 

 will therefore note this. 



N. H. AWCK,) jj^^ Secretaries. 

 C. J. Patten, > 

 Trinity College, Dublin. 



Irish Topographical Botany. 



For four years past T have been engaged on a work which proposes to 

 show the distribution of flowering plants, &c., in Ireland, so far as 

 present information goes, in the forty divisions (counties or portions of 

 counties) into which, in a paper published in 1896 m the Journal of Boiajjy 

 and Ii-jsh Naturalist, I divided the country. The work is now sufficieuth'^ 

 far advanced to show the deficiencies in each of the count}' lists. A 

 number of common plants still remain unrecorded from all but a few 

 counties, and plants of frequent occurrence are still wanted from almost 

 every county. I shall esteem it a great favour if readers of the I.N. will 

 assist the completion of the county lists in either of the following ways : — 

 T. By furnishing me with unpublished notes of plants observed in any 

 part of Ireland. A definite record of any species in any county, giving 

 place, finder's name, and date, will be welcome. 2. By searching in any 

 county for plants still unrecorded from same. As I hope to publish early 

 in 1901, the coming season will be the last during which information 

 supplied can be incorporated in the work. 



Dublin. R. Li<oyd Praegbr. 



Ranunculus parviflorus In Co. Wexford. 



I believe this plant is sufficiently rare to merit a record of its occur- 

 rence in a new locality. This is on the roadside not far from the New 

 Ross workhouse and before the workhouse is reached on the way thither 

 from Kilmanock. Other Wexford localities for this plant have been 

 given by Miss L. S. (ilascott and myself in the Jotirnal of Botany for 

 January, 1889, and these, together with two others, are quoted in Cybele 

 Hibernica, ed. 2, p. lo (1898). 



G. E. H. Barrett-Hamii,ton. 



Kilmanock, Co. Wexford. 



ZOOLOGY. 



INSECTS. 



Acanthosoma haemorrhoidale in Co. Antrim, 



This plant-bug has been found on a window-blind in my sitting-room. 



I have sent the specimen to Rev. W. F. Johnson, of Po3mtzpass, and 



think a notice in the Irish Naturalist may be desirable, as I believe the 



species has not previously been taken in this county. 



S. A. Brenan, 

 Knocknacarry, Co. Antrim. 



