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Notes. 



saying, " only tnonfanumy However, on again looking at the plant and 

 observing its somewhat brittle stem with shining greasy-looking leaves, 

 I became reconciled to Vowell's opinion that it might be something else, 

 and we collected more. Returning to Dublin, anything out of the 

 common was, as usual, shown to my old friend, Mr. A. G. More ; he 

 at once decided that the Epilobiiun might be alsinefoiium^ and said, " Send 

 it to Baker at once." This was done, and Mr. J. G. Baker not only 

 confirmed More's suspicion, but said the plant was undoubtedly 

 E. ahinejolitnn. On the facts above stated it is clear that it was Mr. R. P. 

 Vowell who really detected this interesting plant for the first time in 

 Ireland, and not myself. 



It may be readily confounded with E. viontanunL when not in flower, 

 and Syme, in Sowerby's "English Botany," 3rd Edition, says under this 

 species, "The figure in Engl. Bot, No. 2000, certainly does not repre- 

 sent E. alsinefoliuvi. It seems to me a broad-leaved form of E. obscnnim, 

 but possibly it may have been taken partly from E. obsciwiim and partly 

 from the small mountain state of E. vionlanuffi.'" See also " Notes on the 

 drawings for ' English Botany,' " by F. N. A. Garry : Journal of Botany, 

 July, 1903- 



R. M. Barrington. 



Fassaroe, Bray. 



ZOOLOGY. 

 Irish Deep-water Schizopods. 



In a report of the vSchizopods collected by Mr. George Murray during 

 the cruise of the "Oceana" in 1898 {Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., (7) vol. xvi., 

 1905, pp. i-io, pis. i, ii.), Messrs. Holt and Tattersall describe and figure 

 two new species, viz. : Katerytlwops oceance and Gnathophatisia drepanephora . 

 These were obtained in deep water, about 200 miles west of Valentia, in a 

 tract which lies parti}' within and partly without the Irish marine area. 



Lepisma saccharina at Portadown and Poyntzpass. 



A specimen of this Apteron was sent to me by a friend from Portadown 

 with a request for information respecting it. As I was quite unacquainted 

 with it I sent it to Mr. J. N. Halbert, who very kindly identified it 

 for me. 



In Professor Carpenter's note on the Aptera of Belfast district (Guide 

 to Belfast: British Association, 1902, p. 216), he gives this species as 

 recorded by Templeton from Cranmore, which is now part of Belfast. I 

 cannot find any other record of its occurrence in Ireland. My friend 

 found the insect in his kitchen and I have found it in mine. I should 

 be very glad of any information respecting its habits. Mr. Halbert 

 informs me that, as far as he knows, it is not injurious. 



W. F. Johnson. 



Poyntzpass. 



