148 The Irish Natnralisl. August, 191 1. 



NOTES, 



BOTANY. 



Secale cereale in Co. Donegal. 

 When exploring some of the waste land and sandhills in the vicinity 

 of Rossnowlagh, Co. Donegal, on June 10, I gathered a grass which I did 

 not know. I sent a specimen to Mr. Praeger, and it has been identified by- 

 Miss Knowles from specimens in the Herbarium in the National Museum. 

 There were, perhaps, forty or fifty heads distributed sparingly over some 

 sandy, marshy ground, near to the sandhills and about a quarter of a 

 mile from the sea. The place is nearly midway between Ballyshannon 

 and Donegal, not near a sea -port or railway. The district is thinly 

 populated, and there is very little cultivation, the land being mostly 

 pasture and old meadow. It is not easy to conjecture how the grass 

 has been introduced, as there are few more secluded and out-of-the -world 



parts of Donegal than its present habitat. 



M. J. Leebody. 

 Londonderry. 



ZOOLOGY. 



Some New Irish Barnacles. 



Certain barnacles belonging to the genus Scalpellum obtained by the 

 Fisheries Branch of the Department of Agriculture within the Irish marine 

 area, were sent to Dr. Annandale of the Calcutta Museum to be named. 

 Dr. Annandale reports {Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist. (8) vol. vii., pp. 588- 

 590, 191 1 ), that most of them belong to the two common species 5. vtilgare 

 and S. vehttimtm. A single specimen, however, which was secured from 

 a stem of Lophohelia in about 700 fathoms off the west coast of Ireland, 

 seemed to him new, and is now described as Scalpellum {Smilium) Kempt- 

 Dr. Annandale adds that lie understands the specimen is to be deposited 

 in the British Museum. 



A New Irish Breeding Bird. 



I have just found a colony of the Fulmar Petrel breeding on the west 

 coast of Ireland, an 1 I hope to publish an article on the subject in 

 the September number of the Irish Naturalist. 



Cappagh, Co, Waterford. R. J. Ussher, 



REVIEW. 



The Lore of the Honey Bee, by Tickner Edvvardes. London : Methuen 

 & Co. Price is. 

 Messrs. Methuen first pubUshed this book in 1908 at 6s., it was then 

 in crown 8vo form and had 24 illustrations, now it is in fcap. 8vo size 

 without the illustrations, and costs is. It was reviewed in these columns 

 on its first appearance, and has since been through three editions, so 

 has evidently found a public. This is not surprising, as the author's style 

 is most readable and his evident love for his bees infects his readers with 

 the same feeUng. In its present handy form an I neat binding it should 

 have a still wider circulation. G.O.S. 



