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Mr. W F. Dr ViSMKS Kanh showc.l sonu- fcnalc spccinuns of /•„;- 

 nasstiis, with reference to vScuddcr's late investiKation as to tlie foriualion 

 of the abdoiiiinal pouch 111 females of this j^eiius 



Mr. Greknwood Pim showed an old Topographical Map of Counties 

 Dublin and Wicklow. 



Ltmkrick Naturaijsts' I'ii:i,i) Ci,i h. 



January lytli.— Dican Buniutrv in the chair. Dr. W. A. Ioc.vrty 

 delivered an address, illustrated by dia.trranis and livin<,^ niirrosroi)ic 

 examples, on "Some Dow Dorms of Animal Life." 



Mr. J. vStewarT showed male and female specimens of the ICmperor 

 Moth {Saturnia j^civo/ua), also entire cocoons of the species, cxhibitin;^ 

 their formation and the position of the contained pupiu. 



Mr. F. NEAI.E showed specimens of the vSilver-Washed I'ritillar>' 

 {Argynnis ixqMa), from Cratloe, Co. Clare, one of them havin;,' the left 

 wings marked as in males of the type, whilst the right wings showed 

 as in the typical females. 



February 15th.— Dr. W. A. Fogarty, Vice-President, in the chair. 

 Miss Bennis read a paper on "Plants, the vStructure and I- unctions of 

 their Organs," illustrating the subject by diagrams and specimens. Mr. 

 Belshaw, Mr. Taylor, Mr. Moroney and others took part in the discu.ssion 

 which followed. 



Dr. Fogarty exhibited a piece of osier, showing '' fasciathu'''' to a 

 remarkable extent. 



Mr. BEiySHAW showed the large fins or " wings " of a flying fish, 



Mr. F. Neai,E showed specimens of the Reed Mace {Typlut hdifulla) in 

 the stems of which, when gathered last August, he found some pupa.*, the 

 identity of these latter not being as yet established. 



NOTES 



BOTANY. 



FUNGI. 



Trichia chrysospcrma, DC. — Some moss which reached me 

 from Valencia, Kerry, as packing for earthworms, was covered with very 

 beautiful specimens of this fungus. This may be of interest as a record 

 of distribution.— Hii^DERic Friend, Idle, Bradford. 



PHANEROGAMS. 



Plants still flowering in latter end of December.— On 



December 27th I went for a ramble in the Ballyhooley suburbs of Cork 

 City, N.E., and found the following species :—6'^7/;5c/^a hursa-pa.sturis, Arahis 

 hirsuta, Bellis perennis, SteUaria media, Trifolhtm praicnsc, Euphorbia pcplus, 

 Petarsitcs vulgaris, Senecio vulgaris, Veronica cltamcedrys, Lamium pxupurcum, 

 Vlex europceus, the six last mentioned very abundant. In a garden in the 

 same district I gathered Primula vulgaris, P. vcris, P. clatior, Prngnnu. 

 These all testify to the extreme mildness of our southern climate up 

 to the above date.— Anna N. Abbott, Cork. 



A Sedge new to Britain — In the /oi/nw/ 0/ Bo/auj (or February. 

 Mr. R. Dloyd Praeger announces the discovery in Co. Armagh, ol tne 

 fine sedge Carex rhynchophysa, C. A. Meyer, a native of Russia and vScamli- 

 navia, and not previously known to occur in the British Isles An ex- 

 cellent figure ancl description of the plant by Mr. Arthur Bennett, I-.L.vS.. 

 accompanies the paper. 



