913- Notes. 179 
As to the way in which the young Guillemots are brought down from the 
cliffs, I have not had opportunity of observing this myself, but it is 
evident that when this is done in the evening, there is less risk of attacks 
from the larger gulls, the great enemies of the Guillemots, which are fast 
driving them from the Saltee Islands by the continued plunder of their 
eggs. 
Mr. McCarron, a former light-keeper, gave an account of his observations 
of the young AlcidcC descending to the water, which differs in several 
particulars from the above, but as I am from home I cannot now refer 
to it. 
R. J. USSHER. 
Cappagh, Co. Waterford. 
BOTANY. 
A new Alisma Hybrid from Ireland. 
In the " Botanische Centralblatt " for 1913, Abt. ii., in a paper on 
hybrids among the Alismaceae, Professor Hugo Gliick describes and 
figures Echinodorns ranunculoides x Alisma Plantago, from a specimen 
collected near Tuam by R. LI. Praeger in 1899. A search recently made 
in the locality by Professor Gliick for further specimens was not successful, 
but the district is a wide one. The allied hybrid*^. Plantago x E. ranun- 
culoides, nearer to A . Plantago than to its other parent, is also described 
and figured. Professor Gliick found it at Killower (the place where the 
other hybrid was obtained), and also subsequently in Anglesey ; and he 
has seen a specimen in the herbarium of Rev. E. S. Marshall, collected 
by that botanist in Scotland. 
Sprianthes Romanzoffiana in Co. Armagh. 
Mr. N. Carrothers sends a couple of specimens of this orchid, gathered 
by him on the Armagh shores of Lough Neagh. He says the plant extends 
for a mile along the shore west of the Pumping Station, and that he counted 
fifty specimens close together. The continual discoveries of this extremely 
rare plant — in Europe confined to a few Irish counties — is one of the 
most interesting and pleasing features of recent botanical field work in 
Ulster. 
R, Ll. Praeger, 
Dublin. 
