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TJic Irish Naturalist. 



August, 



Corydalis claviculata in Co. Wexford. 



On the evening of the 6th of June my sister and I found this rare fumi- 

 tory growing profusely over the upper part of the rock of Tubberneering, 

 which lies about midway between Gorey and CamoUn, and is a boss of 

 andesitic lava according to the officers of the Geological Survey (marked as 

 felspathic ash on the G.S. map). It does not seem to have been previously 

 recorded for Co. Wexford — the five counties credited with stations for it 

 in " Irish Topographical Botany " being Dublin, Wicklow, Kilkenny, 

 Waterford, and Donegal (E.). I do not think that anyone visiting the 

 Wexford locality would doubt that the plant is here native. Its principal 

 associates on the rock are Sedum angliciim, Polypodium vulgare, and a 

 large-flowered but small-leaved form of Cotyledon Umbilicus. At the base 

 the vegetation is that of old oak-wood. The rock is also a stronghold 

 of the Nightjar {Caprimulgus europaeus). 



C. B. Moffat. 



Dubhn. 



Irish Mycetozoa. 



On December 27 last I spent some hours in the grounds of Howth 

 Castle searching for Mycetozoa. Although my collection for the day 

 was a small one, I was fortunate in getting amongst dead leaves a gathering 

 of Lamproderma scinfillans. This species has only been recorded, as far 

 as I can ascertain, from one other station in Ireland — near Westport 

 by Miss G. Lister in 191 1 (Clare Island Survey). On March 13 this year 

 Mr. Stelfox gathered it amongst decaying Beech and other leaves in a 

 ditch in Howth Demesne, and on visiting the same place, accompanied 

 by Mr. David MacArdle, on St. Patrick's Day, I found it in great profusion. 

 This pretty little species with its sparkling iridescent sporangia of less 

 than half a millemetre in diameter is well worth searching for, and the 

 two existing records from the extreme east and west would indicate 

 that it may be found in other intermediate localities. March 17 was 

 also notable for the discovery, also the second time in Ireland, of Physarum 

 straminipes, whicli I found on a heap of decayed straw in the same 

 grounds. I am indebted to Miss G. Lister for confirmation of the identity 

 of these two species, which liave been placed in the National Museum. 



W. F. GUNN. 



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