The Irish Naturalist* 



Septembefi 



The Bee Orchis in Co. Donegal. 



Rev. A. H. Delap writes to Dr. Scharff that he found a Bee Orchis 

 {Ophrys apifera) on June 24, at Coolmore, on Donegal Bay, and that Mr. 

 Hugh Allingham, of Ballyshannon, informs him that he obtained a specimen 

 of the same plant at Wardstown, four miles south of Coolmore, some years 

 ago. This beautiful Orchid has not previously been found in Donegal. It 

 is in Ireland strongly calcicolc, ranging north-west across the Central 

 Plain to Sligo, Fermanagh and Monaghan. It is interesting to have it now 

 recorded from southern Donegal, where the Carboniferous limestone 

 finds its extreme limit. 

 Dublin. 



R. Lloyd Praeger. 

 Deyeuxia neglecta var. Hookeri. 



A friend has just sent from Norfolk specimens of Deyeuxia neglecta 

 identical with the var. Hookeri of Lough Neagh. In fact it looks more 

 like lapponnica than Moore's original Hookeri did. 



Arthur Bennett. 



Croydon, Surrey. 



Trichomanes radicans and Aspleninm lanceolatum in Co. Carlow. 



On December 14th, 191 3, while snail -hunting in a wood in Co. Carlow, 

 I was agreeably surprised to meet with an overhanging, dripping rock, the 

 underside of which was covered with a luxuriant growth of the rare and 

 beautiful Killarney Fern {Trichomanes radicans). The rhizomes were 

 over three feet in length and some of the fronds, in fruit, measured from 

 twelve to fourteen inches. 



On July 4th, 1915, I found Asplenium lanceolatum growing plenti- 

 fully in a bohereen near Gowlin, at the foot of Blackstairs. The fronds 

 varied, according to the situation in which they grew, from three to twelve 

 inches in length. 



Tliese interesting plants are additions to the flora of District HI, of 

 " Cybele Hibernica " as well as to that of Co. Carlow. The only previous 

 Irish records for Asplenium lanceolatum are from Cork and Kerry. 



R. A. Phillips. 



Ashburton, Cork. 



ZOOLOGY. 



Recent Notices of Irish Birds. 



The following are the titles of some recent notices of Irish birds : — 

 *' Occurrences of Common and Black Redstarts at Light -stations in 

 Ireland" (R. M. Barrington in " British Birds," June, 1915, pp. 23-25); 

 "Aquatic Warbler on Migration obtained on Tuskar Rock" . . . 



