Early Flowering of HawthornSource: The Irish Naturalists' Journal, Vol. 5, No. 8 (Mar., 1935), p. 201Published by: Irish Naturalists' Journal Ltd.Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/25532419 .

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Mabch, 1085.] The Ibish Nattjkalists* Joubnal. 201

WATER-BEETLEiS UNDER ICE. On 8th January, 1935, I found the following wafer-bee ties, alive

under ice, in the frozen-over pond at Dunraven, Malone Road, Belfast : one male Dytiscus marginalia L., fifteen Laccophilus variolosus Herbst., and one Laccobius bipunctatus P.

58 Marlborough Park South, Belfast. W. M. CRAWFORD.

SOLECURTUS CHAMASOLEN (DA COSTA)?A CORRECTION. In I.N,.J., o, p. 91 (1930), in a note on this species, I stated that

it had not been taken in a living state in North-East Ireland. Since

then, while going through the collection of Britannic marine mollusca in the National Museum, Dulblin, I came across an unusually fresh-looking specimen, marked Strangford Lough, in the 'Waller Collection, On closer examination by Mr. A. W. Stelfox and myself we both were convinced that it had been taken living. As Paphia decussatd fusca (Gm.),. long supposed extinct in our district, has turned up living at Newtownards

(I.N.J., 2, p. 162, 1929), perhaps Solecurtus still lingers in the Lough too.

Public Museum, Liverpool. NORA FISHER,

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BOTANICAL NOTES.

EARLY FLOWERING OF HAWTHORN.

Dr. M. Grimes, University College, Cork, has again forwarded a foliated

spray of Hawthorn, Crataegus Oxyacantha L., with flowers fully out,

picked on 7th February, 1935, from same bush that he recorded in flower on 31st January, 1930, and 2nd February, 1932, in the College grounds

(I.N.J., Ill, 41, and IV, 36). He remarks : *'

The 'bush looks remarkable with last year's red haws, new green foliage and a few scattered sprays of flowers."?Ed.

C?REX CONTIGUA HOPES, IN CO. ANTRIM. Carex contigua Hoppe is rare in the N.E. of Ireland, fcut occurs at

Greenisland, Co. Antrim, in several places. I have already (LN.J., 4, p. 99, 1932) recorded it from near Trooperslane Railway Station, and since have found it in three more places at Greenisland. A jingle clump grows on the edge of the Whinueld Lane, running from the L.M.S. railway to the Shore Road, opposite Inisglas; another single clump is in a damp pasture close to Greenisland Railway Station, and the plant also grows in fair quantity in wet pastures foelow Trooperslane Railway Station, In the last-mentioned locality it is associated with Carex vidpina, C. disticha, and C. remoia. Dr. Praeger has seen and verified specimens from these stations.

Free Public Museum, Liverpool. NORA FISHER.

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RARE ALGAE PROM STRANGFORD LOUGH.?PART I.

By Miss M. J. Lynn, M.Sc.

Plate 15.

In the course of a recent survey of the vegetation of the tidal zone of Strangford Lough I have found a number of very interesting algal forms. Three of these do not appear to have been previously recorded in Britain and some of the remaining ones are so rare that a record of new stations should prove of interest.

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