802 SHORT NOTES. 
_ Saxrrraca Hircutus w Iretann.—The Rev. S. A. Brenan’s re- 
discovery of this plant (p..278) in the old station where the late 
r- Moore found it nearly fifty years since is of much interest. 
Still more interesting, in this connection, is the fact that three 
weeks previously, July 8th, a new station for S. Hirculus was dis- _ 
covered by Mr. R. L. Praeger, of Holywood. The locality is on 
the elevated plateau behind Garron Point, Co. Antrim, some four- 
teen miles east of the original station. Mr. Praeger describes the 
plant as plentiful here, growing with Drosera anglica, Menyanthes, 
and Narthecium. ese mountains of Antrim there are wide 
expanses of moorlands not yet sufficiently examined by botanists. 
—S. A. Srewarr. 
This marsh-land is now the only portion worthy of the name in 
acuta. In West Suffolk Carex stricta grew on the bank of one of the 
fen-dykes between Lakenheath Village and the Station. Both the 
above records are additions to Top. Bot.—G. C. Drucs. 
__Bexs crnerga,—Mr. J. T. Powell records (p. 278) the 
biting of the corolla of Erica cinerea by species of Bombus. The 
humble-bees, however, are not the only insects which attack the 
plant. Last year, near Killarney, I found a somewhat rare beetle, 
done also by Bombi. I found no flowers of E. Tetralix thus attacked. 
—H. N. Rivtey. ; 
