I902, Notes. 123 



Another inland Station for Erodium cicutarium. 



In Irhh Topographical Botany, eight stations, more or less inland, have 

 been recorded for Erodhim ciciitaruim, one of them being Castlewellan, in 

 County Down- That, however, is not far distant from the coast, and 

 it may, therefore, be of interest that I should supply a note of its occur- 

 rence in a more distinctly inland locality in the same county. It was 

 observed on the 6th of the present month — April — near the left bank of 

 the River Bann atMoyallon, which is close on the border of Co. Armagh. 

 At that time it was in flower, and, indeed, one plant was noticed with 

 full}'- formed, almost mature fruit, so that it must have borne flowers 

 some two or three weeks previously, an instance, I think, of unusual 

 precocity. 



J. H. Davie s. 

 lyisburn. 



[I should be glad to know in what quantity the plant occurred here, 

 and in what kind of place. It is not unknown far inland as a casual. — 

 R. Ll. p.] 



Cakile maritima in Co. Sligo. 



I see by Mr. Praeger's Topographical Botany that this plant has not been 

 recorded from Co. Sligo. I met with it at Enniscrone last August; there 

 were two large beds of it just at the mouth of the River Moy— one inside 

 the estuary, and the other on the seaward side of the sand-hills; one of 

 the beds extended for fully three hundred yards along the shore. 



W. F. Johnson. 

 Po3'ntzpass. 



Irish Brambles. 



To the loitrnal of Botany for February, Miss Eleonora Armitage con- 

 tributes a note on Brambles collected in Co. Limerick last year. One 

 variety is new to Ireland and five species new to Limerick. 



ZOOLOGY. 



Vanessa io in Co. Donegal. 



Last year's invasion of Ulster by the Peacock Butterfly and its 



subsequent breeding in the north has been followed by a record of its 



hibernation. Mr. Arthur Bourke, of Whitehouse, Killybegs, has lately 



sent to the Museum a specimen that he captured on February 25th near 



Killygowan, Co. Donegal, 



G. H. Carpenter. 



