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NOTES. 
BOTANY. 
Porella Isevigata Lindb., var. nov. killarniensis. 
Ill the Journal of Bolany for March, Mr. W. H. Pearson describes under 
the above name a plant collected by S. A. Stewart and G. A. Holt at 
Muckross in 1885, and by himself in Tore Wood in 1905. 
ZOOLOGY. 
New Crustacea from the West Coast. 
Mr. S. H. Kemp describes in the Annals and Magazine of Natural History 
(vol. xvii., 7th ss., 1906) two new species of Carida from deep water, one 
of these belongs to a genus (Ivcontocaris) which had only recently been 
founded by Stebbing for some species from South Africa. The other, 
which the author has named Aegean Brendani, after St. Brendan, w^as 
obtained in about 300 fathoms off the Tearaght Lighthouse in Co. Kerry. 
Only short descriptions without figures are given, but the author promises 
a full illustrated account in the forthcoming Report of the Sea and 
Inland Fisheries of Ireland. 
Buccinum and Patella Kjbkken-mbdding at Cranfield, Co. Down. 
Kitchen middens of the shells of various species of marine mollusca 
are common on the sandhills of North Down, Antrim, Derry, Donegal, 
Galway, &c. The great mass of material present with broken bones is 
usually a mixture of Littorina, Patella, Mytilus, Ostrea ; and occasionally 
broken Purpura, as in the case of the Dogs' Bay'' and Melmore, Rosa- 
penna shell-mounds. Much smaller proportions of other species occur, 
including sometimes a few Buc-.inum tmdatum. While searching for land 
shells lately on Cranfield Point with J. N. Milne and A. W. Stelfox, we 
came on a shell-midden composed mainly of the last, with a proportion 
of Patella and an odd Mytilus edulis. Some bones were present in the 
"black band" in a very friable condition, much more so than usual, this 
likely due to the fact that the dunes here are not high and are highly 
silicious. The percolating water in that case would be more likely to 
dissolve the lime than if the dunes were mainly calcareous as in many 
west coast sandhills. No flints or pottery fragments were noticed, 
though- Mr. Robert Bell tells me that many stone implements are found 
in the ploughed fields of this south-east corner of Down. 
Belfast. R. WEI.CH. 
^ Standen, Journ. of Conch., vol. viii., 1896. Plates v., vi. and vii. 
