I900.] Notes. 243 



on the lake shore ; more like a garden species, it was conspicuous by 

 reason of its brilliant heads of yellow flowers. In the lough and adjacent 

 pools one of the rarer pondweeds was found {Poianiogeion hcterophylhis)', it 

 was very abundant, but out of flower. The unusual high water of the lake 

 prevented the collecting of Charas. The Cow- wheat {^Meianipyrum praiense) 

 was found on the roadside going to the lake. An otherwise unattractive 

 roadside wall furnished the best plant of the day. This was Poa conipressa^ 

 which until recently was only recorded from two stations in the North 

 of Ireland. As it is not a conspicuous'plant, it has probably been over- 

 looked, and may possibly be found elsewhere. 



The well-known fossil wood, or petrified wood, of Lough Neagh was 

 collected along the shore near Sandy Bay. 



NOTES. 



BOTANY. 



MUSCINEyE. 



Irish Mosses. 



Messrs. H. W. LETT and C. H. WaddeIvI/ (in Journal of Botany for 

 vSeptember), write : — While on a botanical ramble in July, 1900, we spent 

 two days in the neighbourhood of Benevenagh, in the north of the 

 County Derry. Amongst the sandy Magilligan Flats, at the entrance of 

 Lough Fo3-le, we found Hypmini rngosuni^ Ehrh., and Catoscopinm nigritiun 

 (Hedw.) in some quantity. The former grew in luxuriant masses amongst 

 dwarf heather and grass on the tops of the slight elevations, and the 

 latter — which was in nice fruit — amongst the herbage in the damp 

 hollows of the sandy soil. 



CHARACEyE. 



Chara canescens, Loisel., in Galvvay. 



Early in August last I found a pretty form of this rare plant plentiful 

 in one small pool in a salt-marsh east of Galway. This represents a good 

 extension of its range, its only other known localities in the British Isles 

 being in Kerr}', Wexford, Cornwall, Dorset, and vSuflblk. Messrs. 

 H. and J. Groves have kindly confirmed the identification of my 

 specimens. 



R. A. Phii,i,ips. 



Cork. 



