Short Notes on Natural History. 575 



Mountain, Tyrone." In Flora Hibernica ' (1836) Mackay says, " On 

 a mountain in the Stranagabrally range, Co. Tyrone." (It is not 

 mentioned in the ' Irish Flora,' 1833). Prof. E. Murphy, writing to us 

 in 1864, says, " Seen by me, in company with Admiral Jones (then Cap- 

 tain Jones), in 1826, on a mountain-top not far from Dart mountain, 

 over which the boundary- line separating Tyrone from Londonderry 

 runs ; it was very abundant, and in flower when we saw it." Admiral 

 Jones himself (1865), in an annotated copy of Mackay's ' Catalogue' of 

 1825, writes, " On a mountain west of Dart. I cannot give any nearer 

 to the locality. Mr. Murphy and I were covered by a wet fog at the 

 time. We were by way of walking from Mr. Kennedy's Lodge at (I 

 think) Lough Ash to Dart." Thus the matter remains. It will be well 

 to remember that Admiral Jones was, for many years before 1865, 

 accustomed to visit Braemar and the Aberdeenshire Highlands with the 

 object of collecting lichens : and he must have been familiar with Rubus 

 chamaemorus in its native habitat in Braemar, where it is abundant ; 

 and neither did he nor Prof. Murphy in their letters vary at all from 

 their first identification. It is, however, to be regretted that Rubus 

 chamaemorus has not been gathered in Ireland since the year 1829, and 

 hence doubts have been freely expressed as to the correct identification, 

 which renders it the more desirable that a fresh effort should be made 

 to settle a question so interesting to Irish botanists. That any other 

 species should have been mistaken for it, whether Alchemilla vulgaris 

 or Rubus saxatilis, seems extremely unlikely. 



ERICA MEDITERRANEA FLOWERING IN OCTOBER. 

 [IRISH NATURALIST, December, 1893.] 



From Achill Island Mr. J. R. Sheridan has sent me a few branches 

 of Erica mediterranea, which he found flowering at the very unusual 

 date of loth October, and he remarks that it had been out for a week 

 or two previously. This is, no doubt, a result of the extraordinarily 

 fine and hot summer which we have experienced this year, and which 

 has caused many other spring -flowering plants to anticipate their usual 

 date. 



SUPPOSED OCCURRENCE OF VESPERTILIO MURINUS 

 IN ENGLAND : CORRECTION OF AN ERROR. 



[ZOOLOGIST, April, 1894.] 



In reply to inquiries as to the evidence for including the Mouse- 

 coloured Bat (V. murinus) in my List of the Vespertilionidae found in 

 the Isle of Wight (see Venables' Guide, 1860), I may explain that it 

 was the late Mr. F. Bond who wrote me that he had obtained this 



