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Notes, 



NOTES. 



BOTANY. 

 Equisetum litorale Kuhlw. 



In a previous issue {I.N., xxix., 102), I referred to an unpublished 

 station for this plant, when dealing with its occurrence in Co. Antrim. 

 This third Irish station for the plant in Woodstock demesne, Co. Kilkenny. 

 The plant grew in wet mud on the edge of the riverside avenue not 

 far north of where the stream which forms the richly wooded glen joins 

 the Nore. It was of the same form (var. elatius Milde), as I have .al- 

 ready recorded from Antrim and Down. 



R. Lloyd Praeger. 



DubUn. 



Prunus Padus in Wicklow and KUdare. 



During last June, in the Devil's Glen, about a mile below the waterfall, 

 I saw some large trees of P. Padus (the Bird Cherry) in full flower, and 

 subsequently observed that it was plentiful in this part of the glen, and 

 so far as I could judge, native. The Bird Cherry does not appear to have 

 been recorded for this part of Ireland. Miss Knowles when verifying 

 my specimen drew my attention to another in the National Herbarium 

 collected in Co. Kildare by Mr. W. B. Bruce : the label reads : " Wood, 

 Castletown Estate, near Celbridge, Co. Kildare. W. B. Bruce. 23 /1908. 

 A tree 25 ft. high." Mr. Bruce evidently thought it native in Kildare 

 also. 



A. W. Stelfox. 



National Museum, Dublin. 



Carex axillaris in Co. Dublin. 



During the last two years I have seen this rare (hybrid ) sedge in both 

 stations referred to by the late Mr. Colgan in his Flora. At Malahide, 

 though the new siding on the railway south of the station has destroyed 

 almost the whole of the plant's former habitat, I found one plant of 

 C. axillaris, after repeated failures, in May last. The Castle Bagot station 

 is difficult to describe. About a quarter mile east of Milltown the road 

 to Castle Bagot turns to the south, and just before the turn the main 

 road crosses the stream flowing north from Castle Bagot. At the back 

 of a wet ditch (along the main road) (leading from a cattle-pond in the 

 angle of the two roads to the stream) and under the over-arching hedge, 

 there is an abundant growth of Carex remota, and amongst this Mr. G. E. C. 

 Maconchy discovered first one, then several plants of C. axillaris. The date 

 of our visit was August, 1920. As Mr,, Colgan points out, the Malahide 



