172 The Irish NaturalhU August, 1904. 



An Albino Blackbird. 



On the 17th of June I was sent a young Blackbird, which was able to 

 fly, and was shot in the garden of a parishioner of mine. It is absolutely 

 white, without a spot of black or other colouring. I am sorry to say 

 that the bird was too far gone to be preserved. 



\VlI,I,IAM W. Fl^KMYNG. 



Coolfin, Portlaw. 



BOTANY. 



A new locality for Glyceria festucseformis. 



An unfamiliar-looking grass gathered in July, 1903, south of Cloghey 

 Bay, Co. Down, which at the time of finding showed no inflorescence, has 

 recently flowered in my garden, and proves to be Glyceria fesiucceformis. 

 It grew in chinks of low slate rocks on the shore, which is here very 

 rough and desolate, and at the time I took it for a robust form or variety 

 of G. distans. It was a decidedly smaller, more compact plant than the 

 Strangford Lough G.festttcceformis, which was discovered on the following 

 day, but this was apparently the effect of habitat, as in the garden it has 

 assumed the dimensions and appearance of the Strangford plant. Only 

 a few plants were observed, but no search was made for more, as I did 

 not at the time suspect such a rarity. This new locality lies on the outer 

 or Irish Sea shore of the Ards peninsula, and is remote and primitive. 

 The presence of the grass here strengthensthe view which I have already 

 expressed, that the plant is native in County Down ; and there can be 

 little doubt that close search will eventuall}' reveal other stations. 



R. LivOYD PRAeGE;R. 



Dublin. 



Trifolium striatum inland in Louth. 



Miss Helen Kidd sends me a specimen of Trifolhim stn'atuvi, which she 

 gathered on rocky ground close to Mellifont Abbey, on June 27 last 

 year. I was at Mellifont with the Belfast Field Club only a couple of 

 days before receiving Miss Kidd's letter, and the high rough outcrop of 

 Silurian slates there struck me as exactly the habitat for T. striatum and 

 similar plants, but time did not allow of exploration. This spot is dis- 

 tant nine miles from the Irish Sea. The only other Irish station for the 

 plant not on the coast, is Feltrim Hill, Co. Dublin, which, however, is 

 within two miles of the shore. 7. striatntn is one of many plants which, 

 while widely spread in dry inland situations in Kngland and on the 

 Continent, are in Ireland nearly or wholly confined to the coast. 



R. lyl^OYD Prakger. 



Dublin 



