Short Notes on Natural History. 561 



A mollusk, Geomalacus rnaculosus, is also peculiar to the Killarney 

 district. 



Judging- from the similarity of the Flora throughout the district, and 

 from the range of the Anthrocera minos, which extends to Burren, I 

 should anticipate that Neotinea intacta may be discovered in other 

 localities on the same limestone : but it must be looked for early in the 

 season, about the beginning or middle of May. 



In a late number of Seemann's 'Journal of Botany' (Jan., 1865) 

 Dr. Reichenbach has given a valuable commentary on the synonymy, 

 range, and peculiarities of this remarkable plant. 



TRIFOLIUM SUBTERRANEUM IN IRELAND. 

 [JOURNAL OF BOTANY, July, 1868.] 



In the month of June last year I had the pleasure of adding Trifo- 

 lium subterraneum, L., to the Irish Flora: I found it growing rather 

 sparingly on the short sandy pasture which borders the north side of 

 the river opposite the railway station, and quite close to the town of 

 Wicklow. On the sandhills, a little north of the town of Arklow, grow 

 Eleocharis uniglumis, Juncus acutus, and Equisetum moorei. The two 

 latter plants occur here and there on many different points of the coast 

 between Wicklow and Arklow, both of them apparently finding their 

 northern limit together in a little cove opposite Sea-Park House. 



With regard to Juncus acutus, I find that the date of flowering is 

 given incorrectly in most of our books. It flowers early in June, and all 

 the plants which I saw at the beginning of July were already in seed, 

 while at this date Juncus maritimus had scarcely shown its panicle. 

 (Glasnevin, May 25, 1868.) 



DISCOVERY OF SCIRPUS PARVULUS IN IRELAND. 

 [JOURNAL OF BOTANY, August, 1868.] 



A few days ago I had the pleasure of finding Scirpus parvulus, 

 R. et S., growing rather plentifully on soft mud at the mouth of the 

 river Ovoca, just below the bridge of Arklow. It grows quite by itself 

 on the muddy shallows, which are overflowed at high water, giving a 

 pale green tint to their surface, and forming dense beds of tiny green- 

 tufted stems, about an inch high, its standing rhizomes interlaced and 

 buried deeply in the mud. In habit it is quite unlike any other British 

 Scirpus, for though it has been compared to S. acicularis, its stems are 

 stouter and more fistulose, and its spikes of a pale greenish or whitish 

 colour, something like those of S. fluitans. Our plant answers re- 

 markably well, especially in the hyaline and cellular structure of the 

 lower part of the stems, to the description given by Lloyd, in the ' Flore 



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