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A few plants grew on the Arklow sandhills and salt-marshes, on the 

 extreme southern edge of Co. Wicklow, which may be worth recording. 

 On the sandhills — Viola Cur/isii, Eryngium, Euphorbia paralias and E. 

 portlandica, Convolvulus Soldanella. In the marshes — Sagina maritima, 

 (Enanthe Lachcnalii, Typha latifolia, Carex extcnsa. In the river — Scirpus 

 fluitans, S. setaceus. On roadsides — Erodium moschatum, Chcerophyllum 

 anthriscus. By far the most striking plant of the Arklow sandhills is 

 the rare /uncus acutus, which grows in great tufts five feet high, and 

 many yards in diameter. — R. Li,oyd PRAEGER. 



Artemisia StcIIeriana.— Prof. Areschoug's statement [Journ. Bot., 

 1S94, p. 73), that the flowering season of this plant occurs rather late in 

 autumn, while it may be true with regard to Scandinavia, does not quite 

 agree as regards its behaviour in Ireland. I visited the North Bull on 

 the last day of July of the present season in quest of this handsome 

 colonist, to find it quite out of flower ; by its appearance, it would appear 

 to have been in full bloom about a fortnight before — say mid-July ; but 

 the species apparently flowers twice, at least in some seasons, for there 

 was an abundant crop of new flowering stems rising up, which would 

 bloom three or four weeks later. The plant grows on the North Bull, 

 exactly in the position described by Prof. Areschoug as forming its 

 habitat in Sweden — close to the sea-margin, among Psamma arenaria, and 

 just above the zone of Cakile, Atriplcx, and Salsola. Botanists need not 

 go so far as the North Bull in order to acquaint themselves with the 

 appearance of this Wormwood, as it is used as an edging to one of the 

 beds in Leinster Lawn, and grows in the flower-border in front of 

 Alexandra College. — R. L,i,oyd Pr^EGER. 



ZOOLOGY. 



WORMS. 



Bipalium Kewensc (Moseley) in Ireland. — Although this re- 

 markable species of terrestrial Planarian Worm is probably not indi- 

 genous in this country, its occurrence deserves mention, as it has made 

 its appearance, within recent years, in quite a number of places in 

 England. Its nearest relations live chiefly in Ceylon and China. Only 

 two species of Planarian Worms are indigenous in Burope and in all 

 probability will be found in Ireland, though neither of them has as yet 

 been recorded. 



Bipalium Kewense has once been obtained before in Ireland, viz. in 

 Major Barton's greenhouses at Straffan, Co. Kildare. It was exhibited 

 last year at a meeting of the Royal Zoological Society of London by 

 Prof. Bell, and a second specimen has now been sent to me by Major 

 Barton from the same locality. Like some of the slugs, it secretes a very 

 tough slime, and I was able to observe that it suspended itself from a 

 thread of slime, which did not break till it had reached a length of eight 

 inches. I may mention that some excellent figures with a short descrip- 

 tion of this worm have been published by Prof. Bell in the Proc. Zool. Soc. 

 London, 1886.— R. S. SCHARFF, Dublin. 



INSECTS. 



Hepialus iupulinus at Armagh.— On May 28th, I strolled down 

 to Mullinure in the afternoon. Not expecting to meet with anything 

 particular, I did not take a net with me, but merely put a iew boxes into 

 my pocket. As I was returning home, I noticed a moth flying up the 

 lane in front of me. I made at it with my hat, knocked it down, and 

 successfully boxed it. It proved to be a male of //. Iupulinus. On June 

 1st, another specimen was brought to me by Master A. Townsend, who 

 had caught it at Cathedral Close. Taking these captures with Mr. 



