1 91 5. CoLGAN. — On Irish Animal Names. 169 



In Dr. Scharff's last paper, dealing with Irish bird names 

 {supra p. 109) it will be seen that under the headings 

 " Bunting," " Grouse " and " Pipit " doubts are expressed 

 as to the accuracy of certain items in my " Gaelic Plant and 

 Animal Names " which forms part iv. of the Clare Island 

 Survey Reports^ and was published in 191 1. The names to 

 which exception is here taken occur not in the paper to 

 which they are credited by the reference (3), but in the list 

 of Bird Name's given in the Addenda published in 1915. 

 This list, as appears from the introductory paragraph, is 

 entirely the work of Professor O'Neill and the late Mr. R. J. 

 Ussher, authorities of acknowledged eminence in their re- 

 spective provinces, the Irish language and Irish ornithology, 

 and my connection with it is merely that of a communicator 

 of information received from a trustworthy source. 



Sandycove, Co. Dublin. 



NOTES. 



BOTANY. 

 Plants of Ben Lettery. 



On pp. 269-270 of " Letters from the Irish Highlands of Cunnemarra,' 

 London, 1825 — there is a very circumstantial account of the ascent of 

 Ben Lettery near Baliynahinch, and mention is made of some plants to be 

 found on this mountain. The writer, when describing the climb, says : 

 " At one time a carpet was actually spread under our feet of the trailing 

 arbutus (a uva ursi) with its red stalk and bright red berries, the club 

 moss {lycopodium selago) and the black-berried heath {empetrum nigrum). 

 We showed him, too, the Alpine ladies' mantle {achemilla alpina) and the 

 London-pride {saxifraga umbrosa).'' The person referred to as " him" 

 was, we are told, a " botanist and a stranger " who accompanied the party. 

 I do not know who wrote the ' letters," but as Achemilla alpina has never 

 been found in Galway or Mayo since Wade, in his " Plantae Rariores," 

 1804, reported it from Maamturk and rocks at Cong — the writer of the 

 above " Letters " must have fallen into the same error as his predecessor, 

 a mistake repeated by his successor the author of the " Irish Flora" 

 published in 1833, though Mackay in his " Systematic Catalogue of Rare 

 Plants found in Ireland," 1806, makes no reference to this locality for 

 A chemilla alpina. 



RiCHD. M. Barrington. 



Fassaroe, Bray. 



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