250 The Irish Naturalist, August, 



NOTES. 



BOTANY. 

 Poa nemoralis in Co. Antrim. 



Notes on the occurrence of Poa nemoralis in Down and Antrim have not 

 been infrequent in recent years. Nevertheless, I venture to record it 

 from a new locality in Co. Antrim, namely, woods in Muckamore Abbey 

 demesne. On June 8, accompanied by three fellow- members of the 

 Belfast Naturalists' Field Club, I came across a fine patch of Poa nemoralis 

 in one of the old plantations running along the southern boundary of the 

 demesne near Oldstone. Later on. the same grass was met with in 

 plenty over a considerable area in the plantation on the south side of 

 Muckamore Glen. Oar special mission, I may add, on the occasion was 

 to search for Cephalanthera ensifotia, recorded from "Woods at Mucka- 

 more," by Whitla, in 1835, and not seen since. We were not successful. 

 We noted Epipactis latifolia and Neottia Nidus-avis. On a subsequent date 

 I searched the woods on the north side of the glen, but without detecting 

 the missing orchid. On this latter occasion I obtained at one place 

 Briza media, wmich has not hitherto been noted from this locality. 



W. J. C. TOMIJNSON. 



Belfast. 



ZOOLOGY. 



Woodlice in Co. Carlow. 



Tow r ards the end of June I had the good luck to come across some 

 specimens of Armadillidium pulchellum, Brandt, amongst a heap of stones 

 on the banks of the River Slaney, near Kilcarry bridge, in this county. 

 I took only seven specimens in all — one bj T itself and the other six all 

 together. This pretty little animal has only once previously been found 

 in Ireland, having been recorded from Ballymote, Co. Sligo in 1901, by 

 Dr. Scharff, and was at that time new to the British Isles. Since then it 

 has been found in two or three places in England, but has not been met 

 with again in Ireland. Dr. Scharff described and figured this species in 

 the Irish Naturalist for May, 1901, from the specimens he took in Sligo. 

 He gave the size of a full grown specimen as 5 mm., but he points out to 

 me that my specimens, which he has been kind enough to examine, are 

 larger, being 6 mm. in length. 



