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Limerick Naturai^ists' Fiki.d Club. 

 Durino the past siunnier several very siiccessriil excursions were carried 

 out by this Chil) to phices of interest in the nei^hhourliood of Limerick, 

 the Committee making use of brakes in i)reference to railways, and so 

 reaching localities not frequently resorted to. The places selected were 

 Glenstal, INIorroe ; Mountshannon, Lisnagry ; The Deer Park, Adare ; 

 Cratloe Woods, Co. Clare; and Curragh Chase, Askeaton. Some in- 

 teresting botanical and entomological specimens have been obtained by 

 members during the season. The winter meetings of the Club com- 

 menced on Tuesday, the 28th November. 



NOTES 



BOTANY. 



PHANEROGAMS. 



Queen's County Plants.— A day in August, spent with Professor 

 Sollas in the neighbourhood of Maryborough, though devoted to geology 

 rather than to botany, was productive of some plants not hitherto on 

 record from that neighbourhood. The species mentioned below were all 

 found within a two-mile radius of Maryborough, and chiefly in the 

 neighbourhood of the fine esker that runs in a north and south direction 

 through the town, and for several miles beyond. The following eighteen 

 plants are, so far as I am aware, additions to the flora of district 3 of 

 " Cybele Hibernica" (Queen's Co., Carlow, and Kilkenu}-) : — Cardatiiiue 

 sylvatica, '[Sinapis alba, Fiimai-ia pallidijioya., Lychnis vcspertiua, Arenaria 

 Icptoclados, \Prumis cerasus, *Paslinaca sativa (well established on the esker), 

 Thrincia hirta (abundant in the neighbourliood), Salix purpurea, S. caprea, 

 S. aiiriia, Potajnogeton plantaginciis, Schcenus nigricans, Carcx remota, Phalaris 

 arwidinacea, Nardus stricta, Schlerochloa rigida, Lycopodium selaginoidts. Of 

 other plants, the following may be mentioned : — Erigcron acris, Solidago 

 virgaurea, Galeopsis ladamim were most abundant on the gravels of the 

 esker ; with them grew Matricaria chamomilla. Close to jNIaryborough 

 Ballota nigra and Salix pentandra w^ere observed ; Eq nisei urn tvilsoui grew by 

 the edge of a stream a mile south of the town; and in bog drains near 

 the latter spot were Ulricularia vulgaris, Sparganiutn luiniinum, Lanna irisulca. 

 Additional species noted w^ere Ononis arvcnsis, Rosa ai-vensis, Antennaria 

 dioica, Leontodon hispidum, Ca7'li7ia vulgaris, Parnussiapalustris, Chloraperfoliata, 

 Gentiana ainarella, Lithospernnim officinale, Lamium aiiiplexicaule. Origanum 

 vidgare. Car ex riparia, Ceterach officinarum. 



A day's botanizing between Monasterevan and Portarlington, on the 

 borders of Oueen's County and Kildare (districts 3 and 5) adds one or two 

 plants to Sie present note. (Enanthe fistulosa, Slum angusti folium, and 

 Eleocharis acicularis (see I.N., Oct., 1S93), grow in the canal in both 

 counties. Sagittaria sagittifolia and Veronica buxhaumn, seen near Port- 

 arlington, are new to district 3. Malva rolundifolia, Vei-bena officinalis. 

 Origanum vulgare, Ballota nigra, Lychnis vespcrtina, Erigeron ac7-is, grow at 

 Monasterevan, in Kildare. Mentha piperata and Aquilegia vulgaris were 

 seen on a bog on the Kildare side, far removed from any cottage or 

 cultivated ground.— R. L1.OYD PraEGER. 



Strawberries in November.— At the conversazione of the Belfast 

 Naturalists' Field Club, held on ist November, a well-known member 

 addedto his popularity by passing round among his friends a basket ot 

 ripe strawberries, one of fifty ilb.-baskets sent that dav to Belfast for 

 sale. The fruit were grown in the open air at Loughgall Co. Armagli ; 

 they were perfectly ripe and of excellent flavour. On ytli Noveniber a 

 second instalment of 24 baskets, even superior to the first, arrived in 

 Belfast from the same place.— R. L1.0YD Praeger. 



