Brachypodium pinnatum, Beauv., an Addition to the Irish FloraAuthor(s): R. A. PhillipsSource: The Irish Naturalist, Vol. 7, No. 10 (Oct., 1898), pp. 252-253Published by: Irish Naturalists' Journal Ltd.Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/25521481 .

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252 The Irish Naturalist. LOctober,

The Proceedings of the Belfast Naturalists' Field Club have been published now for a continuous period of thirty-five years, which gives them a fixed and recognised position in the scientific literature of the country, and renders the above remarks inapplicable to them. The part

for i897-98, which lies before us, contains no features which call for

special comment. Concise accounts of the excursions of the year are followed by brief abstracts of the papers read, and short reports from the

botanical and geological sections. The only paper printed in full is a brief one by the present writer, summarizing the botanical discoveries

made in District XII. between the date of issue of the Supplement t

the Flora of N. E. Ire/aid and the end of last year. R. LL. P.

NOTES.

We are authorised to announce tbat the new edition of Cybele Hibernica

will appear early in October. Subscriptions will be received by the publishers (Messrs. PONSONBY, Grafton-street, Dublin) up to 8th inst., after which date the price will be raised from Io/6 to I2/6.

Our congratulations to our contributor H. Lyster Jameson, B.A., on

whom the degree of Ph.D. has just been conferred at Heidelberg.

Dr. Scharff and Mr. Welch have made a preliminary dredging trip to

Lough Neagh, and we understand they have secured interesting results. A careful study of the Lough Neagh fauna is one of the most

important pieces of work awaiting the Irish zoologist.

Mr. Lionel E. Adams, who was unable to attend the Kenmare con

ference, has visited that locality since the cessation of the hot dry weather that marked the visit of the Field Clubs. As a result, he

secured the much coveted Kerry Slug, and also the very rare shell Limincra inzvo/uta.

The results of a preliminary zoological exploration of MacGillycuddy's Reeks, carried out last month by Dr. Scharff and Mr. Carpenter, will

appear in our pages. Some valuable captures were made.

The second long excursion of the British Mycological Society, which is being held in Dublin as we go to press, is turning out success fully and pleasantly. A report of the proceedings will appear in our

next issue.

Ireland was represented at the recent International Zoological

Congress at Canibridge by Mr. W. F. de V. Kane, Dr. Scharff, Mr. R. M.

Barrington, Mr. Barrett-Hamilton, Judge Kane, and Mr. Carpenter.

Advices from Prof. Haddon, written from Port Moresby, New Guinea,

in June, report the continued success of his expedition, and good health

of the menmbers of the party.

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T898. MNomes. 253

BOTANY.

PHA NEROGA MS.

Brachypodium pinnatum, Beauv., an addition to the

Irish flora.

On August 7th last I found this handsome grass covering a large extent of surface on the sandhills at Tramore, county Waterford, where it is, in my opinion, undoubtedly native, the plants growing with it being iubus carsius, Ammophila arundinacea, Cynoglossum oficinale, Viola

Curhisii, Rosa spinosissima, &c., and no cultivation or houses, except one

small cottage a mile distant, within three miles of it. Mr. Arthur Bennett, F.L.S., has kindly verified the identity of my specimens. This species was recorded for county Cork many years ago, but it has not since been found there, and all subsequent writers have agreed that some other plant must have been mistaken for it, I therefore have miuch pleasure in now adding it with certainty to our list of indigenous Irish plants.

Cork. R. A; PHILLIPS.

Arenarla tenulfolta, Linn., In Ireland.

While waiting for a train at Ballybrophy railway station, Queen's

County, on June 14 last, I strolled along the line, and noticed quantities

of an unfamiliar-looking plant which subsequently proved to be the above

species, for which I can find no previous Irish record. A few weeks

later (July 21) I was surprised to find a good deal of the same plant on

the railway near Bansha, county Tipperary. The plants accompanying

it in each case were Linaria viscida, Cerast/urn triviale, Sagzna procuzmbens,

Senecio vulgaris, &c. Owing to its growing so freely in both these

localities I look forward to hearing of its discovery in many directions

along our Irish railways. Mr. Arthur Belnnett, F.L.S., and Mr. N. Colgan,

M.R.I.A., have kindly identified my specilmiens.

Cork. R. A. PHILLIps,

To Mr. Phillips's note I may add that during the last two seasons

I have been turning up Arenaria tenuifolia in several parts of Ireland.

It was first found in the large gravel-pit by the railway at the

Curragh of Kildare in June, i897, where it grew abundantly and

luxuriantly, in conmpany as usual with plants of doubtful standling

Alyssum calycitum, Liniaria viscida, Calam/zinha Acinos, Orobanzche minor,

Senebiera Coronopus. Since then I have found it in four other

places:-County Roscommon, on the railway a few miles N.W. of

Athlone; county Carlow, railway at Milford; King's County, railway at

Banagher; North Tipperary, at the terminus of the derelict railway at

Portumna. In every case the plant grew on railway ballast, accollmpaniedl

by Linaria viscida; and iu all but the Carlow station, Cerastiu/m tez'rnd-un:

was also present. It is a remarkably inconspicuous plant, though not

very small, and presumnably this accounts for its very late addition to the

Irish flora. Probably it lhas been spreading in recent years, like its com

panion, L. viscida.

Dublin; k. Lx4ovfi PRASGZR.

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