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ray), and a very hairy variety of Plautago Coronopus. In the fields, 

 there was great abundance of spurred rye. What effect the abun- 

 dance of ergot had on the inhabitants, the party could not ascertain. 

 Near Roundstone, the plants seen were DabcEcia polifolia, Erica 

 mediterranea, and Eriocaulon septangulare. 



Between Roundstone and Clifden, Erica Mackaiana and E. ciliaris 

 were got; and in the neighbourhood of the latter place Carduus pra- 

 tensis and Daboecia polifolia were found, in great profusion, and with 

 remarkably fine flowers ; in Kylemore, it was found with white 

 flowers. In the vicinity of Galway, Nepeta Cataria, Celerach offici- 

 narum, &c., were collected. 



Some of the party afterwards visited Belfast, and gathered Rosa 

 hiberna, Orobanche rubra, and Equisetum Mackaii, Newm. 



Plants were exhibited to the meeting by Mr. Evans, Mr. Stark, and 

 Mr. M'Nab. 



Several candidates for membership were proposed, to be balloted 

 for at the next meeting. 



Dublin Natural-History Society. 

 May 13, 1853. — Robert Callwell, Esq., in the chair. 



Trichomanes specioswn. 



Dr. Harvey exhibited specimens of Trichomanes speciosum, 

 recently found in the Island of Valentia, by Miss Helen Blackburn, 

 daughter of the Director of the Valentia Slate Establishment. This 

 lady found it abundantly, amongst Hymenophyllum Tunbridgense 

 and H. unilaterale. The specimens which Dr. Harvey exhibited 

 were of the Killarney form, and dissimilar to the Glouin-Caragh 

 plants, which are distinguished in Newman's 'Ferns' as var. An- 

 drewsii. Dr. Harvey alluded to the discovery, last year, of Tri- 

 chomanes speciosum, in Alabama, U.S., and mentioned that a second 

 species had this year been found in another part of America. 



Mr. Kinahan took the opportunity of exhibiting several forms of 

 Trichomanes, which appeared to him to be distinct. He mentioned 

 their peculiarities and habits, and observed that some he found grow- 

 ing on the face of barren and almost inaccessible rocks, others in the 

 shaded and moist crevices of dripping rocks ; while other plants he 

 found altogether growing in bog-mould. 



