igiS. William Francis de Vismes Kane. 103 



1894. The Reddish-grey Bat {Vesperiilio Natterevii Kuhl) in Co. Galway. 



Irish Nat., vol. iii., p. 116. 

 1896. Pine Martens recently taken in Ireland. Irish Nat., vol. v., p. 28. 

 1905. Wild Cats formerly indigenous in Ireland. Irish Nat., vol. xiv., 



p. 165. 



1916. The Crossbill and its Diet. Irish Nat., vol. xxv., p. 53. 



Archaeology. 



1870. Account of Two Antiquities presented to the Academy. Proc. R. I. 



Acad., vol. XV., p. 2. 

 1885. Notes on Crannoges in Co. Leitrim. Roy. Hist, and Arch. Soc. 



Ireland, vol. xvii., p. 407. 

 191 1. The Black Pig's Dyke: The Ancient Boundary Fortification of 



Uladh. Proc. R. I. Acad.., vol. xxvii., C. p. 301. 

 1915. The Dun of Drumsna. Proc. R. I. Acad., vol. xxxii., C. p. 324. 



1917. Additional Researches on the Black Pig's Dyke. Proc. R. I. Acad., 

 vol. xxxiii. C. pp. 539. 



General. 



902. Recent progress in Irish Natural Histor}-. Presidential Address. 

 Irish Nat., vol. xi., p. ^^. 



BOTANICAL NOTES FROM INISTIOGE. 



BY K. LLOYD PRAEGER. 



I. Water-borne Flora of Pollard Willows. 



Just below the bridge at Inistioge, and about a mile below 

 the spot where the River Nore ceases to be affected by the 

 tide, the stream is fringed with pollard willows. The rise 

 and fall of tide here averages about three feet, and while 

 the tops of the willow stumps are about six or more above 

 the water when the tide is down, a spring tide, or a 

 combination of flood and tide, submerges them occasioraUy 

 in autumn and winter, and seeds and mud are deposited 

 among the branches. Mosses help to hx these materials, 

 and a varied epiphytic flora results. That water rather 

 than wind is the transporting agent is clear from the 

 subjoined list, in which will be found many plants that are 

 not light-seeded. The flora of the willow-tops is generally 



