Geranium rotundifolium, L. in Co. WexfordAuthor(s): R. A. PhillipsSource: The Irish Naturalist, Vol. 8, No. 7 (Jul., 1899), p. 161Published by: Irish Naturalists' Journal Ltd.Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/25521596 .

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Ig99.1 Notes. x6i

Geranium rotundifolium, L. In Co. Wexford.

On August ioth, last year, I noticed a few plants of Geranium rolundjfoiiuml

growing near New Ross, but had not tinie to investigate its distribution in the district until May 25th, this year, when I was again in the

neighbourhood, and found that it occurs abundantly on some rocks about half a mile south of the town, and sparingly at intervals along the rocky sides of the road leading from that into the town. As the only

other known Irish stations for this species are in counties Cork and Clare it mlakes an interesting addition to the flora of District IV. Geratzium coiunmbicum, already recorded from other localities in Co.

Wexford, also grows on these rocks. R. A. PnmujPs.

Cork.

Teesdalla nudlicaulls In Co. Down.

A year ago I had the pleasure of detecting Teesdalia ndicaulis in Co.

Antrim. This vear I have met with it, in somne abundance, in the adjoining County of Down, in a shady place near the filtering ponds of the pleasaitly situated bleaching grounds at Lambeg, bordering on the

River Lagan. The conditions of the place where it grows, and where it would seem to have been long established, point to its having come thither by the canal with sand from Lough Neagh, possibly from the Co. Tyrone shore, where it is known to occur. In the last named station, where the species was first discovered in Ireland, the editors of Cybde Hibernica consider it a doubtful native, but have, nevertheless, admitted

it, provisionally, to a place in the Irish flora. Teesdalia has a wide comital

distribution in England and Wales, extending into Scotland, and if, as

seemns likely, it should have come to Ireland to stay, our flora will be

enriched by the addition of one of the most distinct and interesting

species of Crucifferc. J. i. DAvius.

Lisburn.

ZOOLOGY.

Phenological Notes from Co. TIpperary.

As the May number of the Irish Naturalist does not make any announce

ment of the arrival of summer migrants to Ireland I send particulars of

which those have coome under my notice. Wheatear (seen by a friend),

25th March; Sand Martin (seen bya friend), 3Ist March; Sand Martin (seen by myself), sth April; House Martin, 5th April; Chiff-chaff, ist April;

Willow Wren, 6th April; Meadow-pipit, 7th April; Sandpiper, 8th April; Swallow, 1gth April; Sedge Warbler and Cuckoo, 23rd April; Corn crake, 25th April; Swift, 27th April; Reed Warbler, 4th May.

A large number of Reed Buntings made their appearance on the Nenagh River and shores of Lough Derg about the 20th of April, and

flocks of May Birds or Whimbrel passed over Lough Derg from the Co. Galway on 7th May.

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