198 NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY OF DUBLIN. 
CouNcIL. 
Charles P. Croker, M. D., M. R.I. A. ; 
George Dixon, F. R.G.S. 1. ; 
John Good, F.R.G.S.I.; 
A. H. Jacob, M. D.; 
John J. Lalor, F. R.G. 8.1L; 
Alexander Macalister, L. K.Q.C.P.,L.R.C.S. L; 
David Moore, Ph. D., M.R. I. A. ; 
Rev. Thaddeus O’Mahony, M. A., M.R.I.A.; 
George Porte, M. R.I.A.; 
E. Perceval Wright, M. D., F.R.C.S.1., F. LS. ; 
Robert Ball, M. A.; 
A. W. Foot, M. D.; 
William Frazer, M. D. 
Honorary TREASURER. 
Arthur Andrews. 
Honorary Director oF Museum. 
W. B. Brownrigg, A. M., Ex-Sch., T. C. D. 
Hon. SECRETARIES. 
Robert M‘Donnell M. D., F.R.S.; and William Archer. 
A vote of thanks to Lord Clermont for presiding over the Society 
during the last Session was passed unanimously. 
DECEMBER 3, 1868. 
Davip Moors, Ph. D., M. R. I. A., F. L. S., in the Chair. 
THE Minutes of the preceding Meeting were read and confirmed. 
Dr. Watter G. Suitx read the following Notes :— 
On tHE Discovery or Cuscuta TRIFoLit In IRELAND. 
I wisH to show to the Society this evening a specimen of the Cuscuta 
Trifolii, or Clover Dodder, which I gathered at Shankill on the 27th of 
September last, and again on the 4th of October. Some interest attaches 
to this plant, for hitherto no locality for it has been certainly known in 
Ireland. Dr. Threlkeld, in his “ Flora of 1726,”’ makes an allusion to 
the Greater Dodder, as growing in great plenty on the dry, sandy 
banks near the Maiden Tower, Drogheda; and Dr. Moore tells me that 
no Irish specimens of this species are known, but that Dr. Mackay, 
nearly forty years ago, used to speak. of its having been found growing 
on furze on the south side of Killiney Hill. The precise spot in which 
I gathered it is a small field, close by the railroad, belonging to a house 
called Clifton Lodge, about halfway between Ballybrack Station and 
the junction of the Harcourt-street and Westland-row lines of rail. It 
was to be seen in small patches for a space of about twenty yards, 
twelve or thirteen paces from the railway bank, fastened on Lotus cor- 
niculatus, Linum catharticum, and Daucus carota; and the delicate 
