164 The Irish Naturalist. Oct. -Nov., 191 8 



Galium sylvestre in Co. Antrim. 



In tlie Irish Naluralist, \()1. xvi., p. ;^zz, the late Mr. J. H. Davics 

 notified that there was in the National Herbarium a specimen labelled 

 thus, in Dr. Moore's handwriting — " G. pusillum {^=G. sylvestre]. Rare, 

 observed near Fairhead and on Lurigedan Mountain, near Cushendall, 

 July, 1836." The above Galium was excluded from Stewart and Corry's 

 " Flora of the N.E. Ireland " {vide page 295). On the 24th June, of this 

 year, I gathered on Lurigedan specimens of a Galium which I took to be 

 sylvestre. The plants were submitted to i\Ir. N. Colgan, who wrote in 

 reply as follows : — " I have examined the Lurigedan Galium . . . and 

 have little hesitation in accepting it as good Galium sylvestre, Poll. . . . 

 On the faith of the specimens, which I now return you, I am satisfied to 

 restore G. sylvestre to the Flora of N.E. Ireland." Later I found Galium 

 sylvestre at Ardclinis, fide Miss Knowles. 



W. R. Megaw. 



Ahoghill. 



ZOOLOGY. 



Whales and Dolphins Stranded in Ireland. 



Reference was made to Dr. Harmer's reports on the Cetacea stranded 

 on the coasts of the British Islands "in the years 1915 and 1916 in the 

 Irish Naturalist of July, 191 7. Another report has just been issued b}^ 

 Dr. Harmer published as before by the British Museum, on the Whales 

 and allied creatures which have been cast ashore during last year. Most 

 of the localities given are in England or Scotland. A few of them are 

 in Ireland : — 



Porpoise [Phocaena phocena), Sheephaven, Co. Donegal, March 20. 



White-beaked Dolphin {Lagenorhynchns albirostris), Sheephaven, 

 Co. Donegal, March 23. 



Rorqual {BaJaenoptera sp.l), Rinvyle, Co. Galway, March 26. 



Cuvier's Whale {Ziphius cavirostris) , Liscannor, Co. Clare, 

 June 9. 



Lesser Rorqual [Balaenoptera acutorostrata), Schull, Co. Cork, 

 September 22. 



Bottle-nosed Whale {Hyperoodon rostratiis), Schull, Co. Cork, 

 September 20. 



In a note headed " errata " Dr. Harmer again alludes to a supposed 

 specimen of Rudolphi's Rorqual [Balaenoptera horealis) which was reported 

 to have been stranded at Derrynane, Co. Kerry, on the 28th February, 

 1914. He has since come to the conclusion that this whale was more 

 probably a Common Rorqual. 



