Ranunculus tripartitus, DC., an Addition to the Irish FloraAuthor(s): R. A. PhillipsSource: The Irish Naturalist, Vol. 5, No. 6 (Jun., 1896), p. 166Published by: Irish Naturalists' Journal Ltd.Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/25521015 .

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i66 The Irish Naturalist. [June,

N O T E: S.

Seasonable Notes from Cushenctu n .-Swallows appeared

here on April 2nd; Wild Anemone in flower, 5th; Hawthorn in flower,

igth; Cardaminepratense in flower, 22nd; Orchis mascutia in flower, 22nd; Cuckoo calling, 22nd; small white Butterfly, igth; Corncrake calling, May 2nd; Vicia sepiin in flower, 3rd; St. Mark's Fly, 3rd; Swift, May gth.

Sr.. ARTHUR BRrNAN, Cushendun.

BOTANY.

PHA NEROCAMS. RanunculuS tripartitus, DG., an Addltlon to the Irish

Flora.-While botanizing on the 3rd of April last among the rocky hills which lie to the south of Baltimore, Co. Cork, I discovered in a small

lake not far from the sea a distinct and pretty little Batrachian Ranunculus,

which Messrs. H. and J. Groves have kindly identified for me as R.

tripartitus, DC., type. This is certainly an addition to the flora of Ireland

and possibly to that of the British Isles also, as, according to the London Catalo.gue, gth ed., it is represented in Great Britain only by the variety

(or species) internmedius, Knaf, which occurs in a few of the southern

English counties. It is also ani addition to the characteristic group of

South-west European plants native in Ireland, its foreign distribution being limited to Portugal, Spain, France, South Italy, Belgium, and Germany. R. A. PHIIIIps, Cork.

Lathrea sctuamarla In Co. Down.-I have within the last

thirty years frequently found Lathraca sqzamaria growing in the Tolly more Park woods of the Earl of Roden, a locality which is mentioned

in Dickie's Flora o0 Ulster, and Stewart and Corry's Flora of the North-East of

freland. Mr. Ryan will find many Irish localities for this plant given in the above-named books, and also in Moore and More's Cybele Hibernica

I may mention two Co. Armagh localities that are known to me, Ard

more Glebe, on the shores of Lough Neagh, and the Lower Demesne,

Tanderagee, where my daughter found it 7th May, I896. H. W. LEfl?, toughbrickland.

Lathrra squamarla.-In reply to T. Ryan's note (L N., p. I42).

Stewart and Corry's Flora of N. E. Ireland says the Toothwort is frequent

in Antrini, Derry, and Down, and gives many localities. I have seen it

in Tollymore Park. On account of its early flowering in April and May

it is sometimes overlooked. In Kerner's Natural Ristory of Plants,

p. 137, an account is given with illustrations of the structure of this

plant, from which it appears not only to be parasitic but also carnivorous

in its habits. This interesting and splendidly illustrated work ought to

do much to promote a more general knowledge of the life of plants. Cx H. WADPDZ4,.

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