1 66 The Irish Nattiralht. [June, 



N O T K S. 



Seasonable Notes from Cushendun.— Swallows appeared 

 here on April 2nd ; Wild Anemone in flower, sth ; Hawthorn in flower, 

 19th; Cardainine pratense \n flower, 22nd ; Orchis ?nascula\n flower, 22nd ; 

 Cuckoo calling, 22nd ; small white Butterfly, 19th ; Corncrake calling, 

 May 2nd ; Vicia sepiitm in flower, 3rd ; St. Mark's Fly, 3rd ; Swift, May 

 9th. 



Si,. Arthur Brenan, Cushendun. 



BOTANY. 



PHANEROGAMS. 



Ranunculus tripartltus, DC, an Addition to the Irish 



Flora. — While botanizing on the 3rd of April last among the rocky hills 



which lie to the south of Baltimore, Go. Cork, I discovered in a small 



lake not far from the sea a distinct and pretty little Batrachian RanimculuSy 



which Messrs. H. and J. Groves have kindly identified for me as R. 



iripartitus, DC, type. This is certainly an addition to the flora of Ireland 



and possibly to that of the British Isles also, as, according to the London 



Catalootie, 9tli ed., it is represented in Great Britain only by the variety 



(or species) intermedins, Knaf., which occurs in a few of the southern 



Knglish counties. It is also an addition to the characteristic group of 



South-west European plants native in Ireland, its foreign distribution 



being limited to Portugal, Spain, France, South Italy, Belgium, and 



Germany. 



R. A. Phii,i;ips, Cork. 



Lathrsea squamarla In Co. Down.— I have within the last 

 thirty years frequently found Lathrcea squamaria growing in the Tolly- 

 more Park woods of the Karl of Roden, a locality which is mentioned 

 in Dickie's Flora of Ulster, and Stewart and Corry's Flora of the North-East of 

 Ireland. Mr. Ryan will find many Irish localities for this plant given in 

 the above-named books, and also in Moore and More's Cybele Hibernica 

 I may mention two Co. Armagh localities that are known to me, Ard- 

 more Glebe, on the shores of Lough Neagh, and the Lower Demesne, 

 Tanderagee, where my daughter found it 7th May, 1896. 



H. W. Lett, Loughbrickland. 



Lattiraea squamaria. — In reply to T. Ryan's note (/. N., p. 142). 

 Stewart and Corry's Flora of N. E. Ireland says the Tooth wort is frequent 

 in. Antrim, Derry, and Down, and gives many localities. I have seen it 

 in Tollymore Park. On account of its early flowering in April and May 

 it is sometimes overlooked. In Kerner's Natural History of Plants, 

 p. 137, an account is given with illustrations of the structure of this 

 plant, from which it appears not only to be parasitic but also carnivorous 

 in its habits. This interesting and splendidly illustrated work ought to 

 do much to promote a more general knowledge of the life of plants. 



C. H. Waddei,!.. 



