Irish Plants Collected on the International Excursion of 1911Author(s): R. Ll. PraegerSource: The Irish Naturalist, Vol. 21, No. 7 (Jul., 1912), p. 136Published by: Irish Naturalists' Journal Ltd.Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/25523960 .

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T^6 The Irish Naturalist* July, 1912.

NOTES.

BOTANY,

Irish Plants collected on the International Excursion of 1911.

In the Irish Naturalist forNovember last, Mr. G. C. Druce noticed two

plants?Castalia Candida and Viola epipsila, collected by members of

the party which visited the south and west oi Ireland in the preceding

August. In the New Phytologist for December last, Mr. Druce discusses

fully the floristic results of this excursion, and his paper re-appears as an

appendix to the Botanical Exchange Club Report for 1911, published last April. In the New Phytologist for April last, Dr. C. H. Ostenfield

writes on the same subject. The two Irish plants which bulk largest in these communications are

Castalia Candida and Viola epipsila. But the former, recorded positively

by Druce, is now withdrawn by Ostenfield (who first drew the members'

attention to it in the field) ; he names the Irish plant instead C. alba var.

occldentalis nov. var. As to the Violet, while Druce treats it as a

species, it will appear to conservative botanists rather as a large form of

V. palustris. I believe I have seen it in several places in Ireland, but I

have no specimens. Another "

new plant "

is Peplis Portula var. dentata

Druce from Killarney, which "

forms a passage to the Mediterranean and

Western variety longidenta J. Gay/' Dr. Ostenfield describes as Erica

Praegeri a new hybrid Heath (E. Maokayix Tetralix) from the classical

locality of Craigga More. The Heaths of this section are very variable

and puzzling, and at present not understood, and the present plant appears rather shadowy. I fancy Carna and Gweedore would yield several new "

species'" or "

hybrids "

to the enthusiastic splitter. In Druce's paper will be found a number of Irish records, for slight varieties and also for

some aliens.

.R. Ll. Praeger,

Dublin.

Irish Bird Records.

In the Zoologist for November Mr. R. Warren has some notes on the

nocturnal habits of the Redwing {Turdus iliacus). In the same number

Mr. F. C R. Jourdain, writing on the disappearance of the Osprey in

Scotland, opined that this is due to the destruction of this bird on its

passage or migration across Ireland. This statement led to a lively discussion in the pages of the Journal named, between Mr. Jourdain,

Mr. Warren, Mr. Barrington, and Mr. Harvie-Brown, in which the Irish

ornithologists claim that the south-western distribution of the Osprey records from Ireland prove that the Irish Ospreys were not on their way

to Scotland at all. In the January number Mr. Warren.records a young

Glaucous Gull shot in December near Ballina, and in the March number

a Common Sandpiper shot in January at Crosshaven.

British Birds for February contains a note by Mr, Ussher on Bernade

Geese on the south cpast o| Ireland.

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