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observation of so diligent and accurate a naturalist was in the main 

 correct is highly probable ; but it may be worth recording, if only as 

 an exceptional case, that upon the islets in Lough Carra, County Mayo, 

 the Arctic Tern breeds in company with the Common Tern ; for out of 

 some six or seven birds which I shot there, in June, 1851, at least two 

 belonged to the Arctic species ; and I have their feet and skulls still by 

 me, as a conclusive proof that there was no error made in the name. 



NOTE ON THE DISCOVERY OF NEOTINEA INTACTA, 

 REICH, IN IRELAND. 



[Read before the BOTANICAL SOCIETY OF EDINBURGH, March 9, 



1865.] 



My sister and myself first noticed Neotinea intacta early in the 

 month of April (1864). It attracted our notice as appearing above 

 ground at a singularly early date, in a locality where we knew that 

 Orchis mascula was the only early orchis, and Orchis mascula of course 

 it could not be. 



My sister, following up this clue after I had left Castle Taylor, col- 

 lected and dried several specimens, remarking that the little orchis was 

 something she had never seen before. After a great deal of trouble, 

 my friend Dr. Moore discovered its name, which was soon confirmed by 

 Reichenbach himself; and we thus had the great pleasure of adding 

 one more to the list of southern plants which grow in Ireland without 

 reaching Britain proper. It is hard to say with which group the Neotinea 

 should be associated. It is not so peculiarly western as Erica mediter- 

 ranea, Daboecia polifolia, Pinguicula grandiflora, and the Spanish 

 Saxifrages. It may perhaps better be classed with Arbutus unedo : yet 

 it is to be remembered that, in Ireland, it does not occupy quite the 

 same position. Castle Taylor is situated about six miles inland from 

 the Bay of Galway, on a part of the "flag" limestone district, whose 

 flora is best known from that of Burren, in Clare. 



Those botanists who are interested in the subject will find an excel- 

 lent account of the Burren Flora, published in the ' Transactions of the 

 Royal Irish Academy,' vol. xxiv. (1862), by my friend Mr. F. J. Foot, 

 who has thoroughly investigated this interesting limestone tract in the 

 county of Clare. Some remarks of my own, on the Flora of Castle 

 Taylor, Galway, are published in the ' Proceedings ' of this Society for 

 the year 1855. 



It is remarkable that in the very same field with Neotinea intacta 

 occurs a very distinct species of Hawk-moth, Anthrocera minos, which, 

 in the British Isles, occurs only in the Burren district ; and from this 

 circumstance I had always expected to find some peculiar plant also. 

 Arbutus unedo at Killarney is similarly associated with two remarkable 

 and local species of insects, Notodonta bicolora andHydrelia bankiana. 



