Chara canescens, Loisel., in GalwayAuthor(s): R. A. PhillipsSource: The Irish Naturalist, Vol. 9, No. 10 (Oct., 1900), p. 243Published by: Irish Naturalists' Journal Ltd.Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/25521835 .

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I900.] A3toes 43 on the lake shore; more like a garden species, it was conspicuous by reason of its brilliant heads of yellow flowers. In the lough and adjacent pools one of the rarer pon dweeds was found (Potarnogeton heterophyllus); it was very abundant, but out of flower. The unusual high water of the lake prevented the collecting of Charas. The Cow-wheat (AMe/amuyruatn prnese) was found on the roadside going to the lake. An otherwise unattractive

roadside wall furnished the best plant of the day. This was Poa comnfpressa, which until recently was only recorded from two stations in the North of Ireland. As it is not a conspicuous'plant, it has probably been over

looked, and may possibly be found elsewhere. The well-known fossil wood, or petrified wood, of Lough Neagh was

collected along the shore near Sandy Bay.

NOTES.

BOTANY.

MUSCINE,E.

Irish Mosses. Messrs. H. W. LEYT and C. H. WADDnnL (in Journal of Botany for

September), write -While on a botanical ramble in July, I9oo, we speilt two days in the neighbourhood of Benevenagh, in the north of the

County Derry. Amongst the sandy Magilligan Flats, at the entrance of Lough Foyle, we found Llyy5um rugosum, Ehrh., and C(oscopium nigritum (Hedw.) in some quantity. The former grew in luxuriant masses amongst dwarf heather and grass on. the tops of the slight elevations, and the latter-which was in nice fruit-amongst the herbage in the damp hollows of the sandy soil.

CHARACEAC.

Chara canescens, Lolsel., In Galway. Early in August last I found a pretty form of this rare plant plentiful

in one small pool in a salt-marsh east of Galway. This represents a good

extension of its range, its only other known localities in the British Isles being in Kerry, Wexford, Cornwall, Dorset, and Suffolk. Messrs. H. and J. Groves have kindly confirmed the identification of my specimens.

R. A. PHii,njPS. Cork.

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