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at a meeting of the Dublin Naturalists' Field Club, under the provisional, 

 and, as it proved, erroneous name of M, Smithiana (see p. in). 

 Photographs, and subsequently, by the kindness of Lady Clonbrock, 

 fresh specimens, were sent to Mr. W. Phillips, of Shrewsbury, 

 the great authority on Fungi of this class, and he pronounced it 

 without doubt as M. data, Fries, and that it was the first British 

 record. This species is described by Fries in his Systema Mycohgicum as 

 occurring in Italy, but rate. Colin also records it in his Kryptogamen 

 Flora von Schlesien . The specimen sent to me was nearly eleven inches 

 high, and the pileus or cap four inches in diameter. 



The second Morel was a very large and abnormal form of M. crassipes, 

 and was found by Mr. Robertson in his garden at Ranelagh, Co. 

 Dublin. It was quite distinct from the Clonbrock species in shape and 

 on the arrangement of the ribs, the cap being rounded — while that of 

 M. data was markedly conical. I have to thank Mr. Phillips for kindly 

 identifying this species also, as being quite abnormal. It did not accord 

 at all with the figure in Cooke's Mycographia. 



These two most interesting forms are preserved in the Dublin Museum 

 — Greenwood Pim, Monkstown, Dublin. 



PHANEROGAMS. 



Rubus villicaulis Koehl., var* to. Selmeri Lindeto.— Rev. 



W. Moyle Rogers has lately {[our. Bot., Feb. 1894), identified the glabrous 

 form of Rubus villicaulis with R. Selmeri Lindeb., a Scandinavian plant, and 

 proposes to class it in future as var. b. Selmeri. The plant referred to 

 from " N. Ireland" in his paper (p. 43) was gathered by me at Saintfield, 

 in 1S93. No doubt it will be found in other parts of Ireland. Mr. Rogers 

 gives the following marks of distinction : — " It differs from typical 

 villicaulis by its long styles (equalling or exceeding the stamens) its sttong 

 falcate prickles, its greener and more roundish Its., and its much more glabrous 

 condition generally." — C. H. Wadded, Saintfield, Co. Down. 



Whins injured by frost. —It was strange to miss the usual golden 

 bloom of the Whins or Gorse this spring. One would think such 

 hardy plants could not have been injured so much by frost. Nevertheless 

 the appearance of the country side here at Easter was quite altered by 

 the brown and withered flowerless plants instead of the usual glow. I 

 suppose it must have been caused by the severe frost in January coming 

 upon them in a too advanced state of flower, for many began to flower 

 in November. — C. H. Waddeee, Saintfield. 



Henbane (Hyoscyamus niger) on Howth. — It maybe of in- 

 terest to note that there is this year an abundant growth of the Henbane 

 on the southern slopes, close to the Bailey Lighthouse. This rather 

 rare plant, notoriously erratic and irregular in its appearance, has pro- 

 bably not been long in this station, or it could not have escaped the 

 vigilant eye of Mr. Hart, who gives Ireland's Eye as the only place in 

 the Howth district in which the Henbane is known to grow. — R. Lxoyd 

 Praeger. 



Cephaianthera ensifolia in Co. Waterford. — I was fortunate 

 enough to find yesterday (June I) a number of plants of Cephaianthera 

 ensifolia, Rich. They were growing in a very wet, boggy place in the 

 woods of Curraghmore. I gathered two specimens, one for my herbarium, 

 and the other for planting in my garden. This represents a new District 

 (ii.) in Ireland for this plant. 



According to Cybele HibcrnicaW. occurs in the following places : — Dis- 

 trict i., Glengarriff, Adrigoole, Co. Cork ; xi., near Lough Eske, Donegal ; 

 xii., near Larne, Antrim; Shane's Castle Woods, shores of Lough Neagh. 

 It has since (Recent additions to the Flora of Ireland, 1872, by Mr. A. 



