The Irish Nattiralist. 
August, 
June 28. — Close on 30 members and adherents visited the demesne 
Cecil Manor, near Augher, Co. Tyrone. The beautifully wooded slopes 
of Knockmany, the gardens containing rare exotic trees, the lakes with 
waterlilies in bloom, and the glen, were much admired. The party left 
for Omagh at 8.30 p.m., after spending a delightful evening. 
DUBLIN NATURALISTS' FIELD CLUB. 
■June 16. — Excursion to Carton. — Members and visitors to the 
number of fifty left Broadstone by the 3.30 train for Maynooth. On 
arrival the party visited Carton demesne, and botanical work was under- 
taken for some hours. Return to Maynooth was made for tea, after 
which the party worked along the canal until 8.30, when return was made 
to town. 
NOTES, 
BOTANY. 
Spiranthes Romanzoviana. 
At a recent meeting of the Royal Irish Academy I exhibited a series 
of dried specimens of this plant from its four known Ulster stations, and 
mentioned that the question of the identity of the Irish plant had been 
recently under consideration as follows. Mr. Arthur Bennett had 
written me drawing attention to specimens of Gyrostachys stricta^ 
Rydberg, in his herbarium, received from the late Dr. Moring. This 
plant was described as a new species by Rydberg in his " Flora of 
Montana," p. 107 (1900), and accepted by Dr. Britton in his " Manual of 
the Flora of the United States and Canada," p. 299 (1901). On com- 
parison, Mr. Bennett was inclined to refer specimens of S. Romanozoviana 
from Co. Armagh and Co. Derry, which I had sent him some years ago, 
to S. (or 6^.) stricia, and suggested that an expert should be consulted. 
Accordingly, I sent my specimens from all four Ulster stations to Dr. 
Rendle, who kindly reported on them. At the same time he sent a copy 
of Ames's " Monograph of the American Species of Spiranthes" (1905), 
in which, as he pointed out, this orchid authority quotes Rydberg's 
plant as identical with S. Romanzoviana^ and not a distinct species. Dr. 
Rendle's examination leads him to agree in not regarding G. stricta as 
distinct; and he would refer all the Irish specimens (the Berehaven 
plant included) to S. Romanozoviana. In a discussion which followed my 
remarks, Mr. F. W. Moore remarked that he had not heard of the 
Berehaven plant being seen for a long time, and feared it had been ex- 
terminated by certain ploughing operations. Whereupon Mr. R. M. 
Barrington conveyed the welcome intelligence that Mr. A. H. Evans, of 
Cambridge, had visited Berehaven in 1904 to obtain the plant, and had 
procured some specimens without difficulty. 
R. IvIvOYD PrAEGBR. 
Dublin. 
