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The Irish Naturalist. 



November, 



grass at its edge. In the latter position it was exceedingly dwarf, the 

 plants bearing one or two flowers and being less than half an inch across ; 

 but on the road itself they measured up to 8 or 9 inches in diameter. It 

 also occurred in the dwarf form on the old grass-grown road leading off 

 the Lighthouse road. Comparison of these records with those given in 

 the "Cybele" leads to the conclusion that the plant is deserting the 

 grass-grown road for the harder surface of the newer road. 



Howth. G. E. C. Maconchy. 



The Bee Orchis in Co. Cavan. 



Quite recently I was shown a ftne dried specimen of the Bee Orchis, 

 Opiiyys apifeva Huds., gathered in Co. Cavan. It was sent in a fresh state 

 to Miss S. Blackwood, of the Belfast Field Club, by a friend of hers. Miss 

 M. Clarke. The latter found it growing by the roadside at Rice Hill, near 

 Kilmore, between Cavan town and Crossdoney. It was a robust plant, 

 bearing six blooms, and was collected about 22nd July, of this year. 

 This is, I believe, the first record of the plant's occurrence in Co. Cavan. 



Belfast. W. J. C. Tomlinson. 



New Wexford locality for Scutellaria g-alericulata. 



The Greater Skullcap [Scutellaria galericulata) appears to be much 

 rarer in Leinster than in any of the other three Irish provinces ; according 

 to Irish Topographical Botany it has been ascertained to occur in only 

 10 localities, which arc distributed among 8 of the 12 counties. On 24th 

 August last I was glad to find two flourishing clumps of it among rushes in 

 a boggy field at Mount Forest, near Ballycanew, Co. Wexford. This is its 

 third Wexford station. The Mount Forest n-eighbourliood does not seem to 

 produce Scutellaria minor, which was quite abundant in those parts of the 

 county previously well known to me (where S. galericulata was absent). 



Dublin. C. B. Moffat. 



ZOOLOGY. 



A late Zyg^aena. 



On August 5tli I was searching Hog-weed bhxssom for Ichneumon 

 Fhes in one of my fields, when to my surprise I saw a Zygaena sitting on 

 an umbel of the Hog-weed. I duly captured it, and it turned out to be a 

 somewhat wora example of Z. lonicerac, a species which I had often taken 

 here before, but never so late. It gen?rally appe.ns in the first week in 

 July 1 took it at Newcastle on July 27th, iyo6, and on June 22nd, i8()3. 



l'(;yntzpass. W. F. Johnson. 



