372 Proceedings of Provincial Scientific Societies. 
FLOWERING PLANT . 
Calcicole Plants on Boulder Clay, etc. — In The 
Naturalist for October, p. 318, mention is made of limestone- 
loving plants on Boulder Clay. This, I presume, is because 
the latter is not entirely decalcified near the surface as it 
often is. In Ireland we have interesting facts of that sort, 
not always on Boulder Clay however ; at Dog’s Bay, 
Connemara, the famous foraminiferous strand sends its fine 
calcareous matter in dry windy weather up over the peaty 
area by which it is surrounded, and some calcicole plants 
are enabled therefore to live there, though the limestone 
area of West Galway is many miles away, beyond the great 
peat bogs. The Carline Thistle is plentiful along the Bay, 
and near it, on a peat bank, Mrs. R. LI. Praeger some years 
ago found the rare Orchid Neotinia intacta growing as well as 
it would in a limestonfe area. _ At Rosapenna, on Sheephaven, 
in West Donegal, also a calcareous sandy area surrounded by 
deep peat for miles, an Orchid and other plants of a lime- 
stone area are found in abundance. Calcicole species, too, 
occur on little areas between the low cliff and banks and high- 
water mark north of Ardglass Harbour, County Down. Here 
the water, draining out from Glacial Gravels and Boulder 
Clay, containing a good many limestone pebbles and boulders, 
deposits its lime on the shore ; the area for many miles around 
being a Silurian one with no limestone whatever except in 
the drift. On a cliff slope of Clare Island, Mayo Coast, Dr. 
R. LI. Praeger pointed out to me the reverse — a peat-loving 
plant, the ‘ Mediterranean Heath,’ growing in a stiff Boulder 
Clay, containing much calcareous matter from the Car- 
boniferous Limestone area of Mayo. — R. J. Welch. 
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Publication 85 of the Manchester Museum deals with West Indian 
Hepaticse, is reprinted from The Journal of Botany, and sold at one 
shilling. 
From the Annual Report of the Bradford Historical and Antiquarian 
Society we gather that the Society is in a flourishing condition, and that 
its membership is increasing. 
The twenty -second volume of the new series of the Transactions of 
the Cumberland and Westmorland Antiquarian and Archceological Society 
speaks well for the activities of that society. The volume contains over 
five hundred pages, which, under the editorship of Messrs. W. G. and 
R. G. Collingwood, are all that can be desired. The printers, T. Wilson 
and Sons, have done their share well. 
We have received the Report for 1921 of the Botanical Society and 
Exchange Club of the British Isles, by the Secretary, Dr. G. Clarice 
Druce (Vol. VI., Part III., pp. 265-546, 10s.), and, printed uniformly, 
the Report for 1921 of the Botanical Exchange Club, by Dr. E. N. Thomas, 
Miss Vachell, and A. E. Wade (Vol. VI., Pt. IV., pp. 547-587, 5s.). 
Each is crowded with valuable botanical information which should be 
consulted by all interested in the Flora of the British Isles. In addition 
there is a valuable ‘ Flora Zetlandica,’ by Dr. Druce. 
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