The Crayfish in the ShannonAuthor(s): R. A. PhillipsSource: The Irish Naturalist, Vol. 17, No. 10 (Oct., 1908), p. 205Published by: Irish Naturalists' Journal Ltd.Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/25523316 .

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1908. Notes* 205

interesting to note the discovery of what Mr. H, N. Dixon, who kindly examined the specimens, considers to be normal D. to?'tiles m two counties

of Ulster. In May, accompanied by 1113* friend the Rev. C. H. Waddell?

I gathered a fair sized tuft of it on sandstone at Scrabo Hill, Co. Down ; and in July I received a miscellaneous parcel of mosses picked amongst the sand-dunts at Rosnowlagh, in Co. Donegal, by the Rev. W. B.

Johnson and his wife, amongst which I detected a small tuft of this

plant. These two localities being so far apart, one on the N,W. coast

and the other almost on the N.B. coast, of XTlster, encourages one to hope that D. tortile will be discovered in some of the other counties of

Ireland. H. W. LSTtr.

Longhbrickland.

Wood Betony in Co. Wexford

On July 3rst I found this rare plant, Stacliys Bet?nica, growing in some

abundance in the lane leading from Killowen to Ballykelly between this

townland and New Ross. It is, I believe, nearly twenty years since

was last recorded from this county in other localities.

G. E. H. BarretT-Hamii/ton.

Kilmanock, Waterford.

Plantago media in Co. Down.

Last June, Miss Florence Wilson, who resides at Belvoir Park, sent me

a plant for identification. I recognised it as Plantago media. I went to

examine the locality, and found several specimens within a very restricted

area. It would seem to be fairly well established there, and evidently has been there for some years.

Knockbreda, Belfast.

W. P. Carmody.

ZOOLOGY.

The Crayfish in the Shannon.

The freshwater Crayfish, though known to be plentiful in a few of

the eastern counties of Ireland (Cavan, Dublin, Kildare, and Wicklow), does not appear to have been recorded from elsewhere in the country. I

have seen it in the Shannon at Castleconnell, Co. Limerick, and Doonass, Co. Clare, where it occurs abundantly.

R. A. Phii^ips.

Cork.

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