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EXHIBITION MEETlN(i, iU5() 
OllCHIS TUAUNSTEINERI SAXJT. 
The specimens shown were collected in Scraw llogj C’o. West- 
meath, v.-c. H23, in June 1950. The species has previously 
been recorded from Ireland hj"^ ,H. Osvald (“ Notes on the Vege- 
tation of British and Irish Mosses,” Acta Phytogeographica 
Suecica, 26 : 1949) as occurring in Athlone Bog (v.-c. H25) 
about 30 miles from the present locality. The determination 
of the Scraw bog plant was confirmed from fresh material by 
Dr. P. Vermeulen. It is premature as yet to associate the 
Irish plant with any of the very numerous named continental 
forms beyond stating that in the sub-division of the s^iecies 
given by Keller & Schlechter {Monographic utid lcon,ogra/phlc 
der Orchideen Europas etc., 1928-1940) the Scraw Bog form 
has closest affinity with var. eu-Traunsteineri Asch. & Graeb. 
A fuller account of the Irish plant (with comment on the nomen- 
clatural problem) is in the course of preparation. 
The locality, Scraw Bog, about ^ m. east of Lough Owel, 
Co. Westmeath, is a notable one. It consists of a depression in 
the limestone in which has developed bog with rather a mixed 
assemblage of siiecies — calcicoles and non-calcicoles. Fyrola 
rotundifolia, Chara tomentosa and Nitella tenuissima occur 
here — plants all of which possess extremely limited ranges in 
Ireland. Orchis Traunsteineri is common in the south-eastern 
end of the bog. The drier marginal zones support 0. Fuchsit ; 
no other dactylorchids were seen in the bog in 1950. 
o. CRUENTA MULL. 
A paper giving descriptive, distributional and other data re- 
lating to this species appeared in Watsonia (vol. 1, pt. VI, p. 
366-375). The specimens on show were collected in a calcareous 
marsh on the shores of Lough Carra, Co. Mayo, v.-c. H26, near 
Keel Bridge, on the road between Ballinrobe and Partry. 
J. Heslop-Harrison. 
CAREX VULPINOIDEA MICHX. 
The species is widespread as a native in eastern Canada and 
U.S.A. and has been found in S. America in Colombia. It is, 
or has been, naturalised in various parts of Europe. 
There have been few occurrences in Britain (see B.E.C. 1037 
Pep., 459, 1938), the most recent being in a damp hollow at 
Tadworth, Surrey, v.-c. 17, whence specimens were shown. 
Here it was discovered by Mr. C. T. Prime towards the end 
/ of June 1950 growing luxuriantly amongst native vegetation. 
Specimens were also shown from a chalk-pit at Green Street 
Green, near Farnborough, W. Kent, v.-c. 16, where I found it 
in July 1937. Here it was growing amongst old sleepers under 
