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18.7.51 cont.  Yellow Corrie, MP., cont.

& I found a small Juncus resembling that given to me a few days previously by D.A. Webb as Juncus alpinus.  This resembles J. bulbosus but grows in straight line sending up shoots from an underground horizontal stem [[image]] like this.  Whether this is really J. bulbosus remains to be proved & Roger & I both sceptical though method of growth seems different from normal J. bulbosus.  We were unable in the field to see the "articulation" in the leaves which should be found in those of alpinis.  Small Mt. Ringlet Butterflies still plentiful all over the moors (= epiphron) & seemingly as fresh as 3 weeks ago!


19th July, 1951. 

Left Lawers by 12 (noon) bus.  Caught 1.42 train from Killin to Glasgow;  9 P.M. boat Glasgow to Belfast;  8.15 AM. train Belfast to Dublin & reached 14 Clareville Rd. at 11.50 AM. on 20th.

On railway carriage windows at Killin took a specimen of a Dacnusa


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21st. July 1951. 

A fine sunny day.  Garden at 14 Clareville Rd., Dublin, full of Aculeates.  Megachile centuncularis & willoughbiella, Hylaeus communis, Halictus "sp. near smeathmanellus", Crabro varius, Pemphredon lugubris, Bombus jonellus ♂︎ taken!, [[strikethrough]] [[?]] [[/strikethrough]] B. lucorum ♂︎♂︎ & ☿☿, B. hortorum ☿ at Snapdragon, B. lapidarius ☿☿, B. agrorum ☿☿ all I think seen, as well as Vespa sylvestris ☿, Microlepidopteron ? fern species


23rd. July 1951. 

Bombus pratorum ☿ taken in back garden at 14 Clareville Rd., on flowers of Saussurea alpina, this confirming the suspicion that George & I had seen a ☿ of this species on flowers of Geranium ibericum, which on our approach flew over the wall, on 24th June 1951.

R.C. Faris during same period has reported B. pratorum from Monkstown & Carrichmines, Co. Dublin.

The apparent arrival & spread of this species since first reported by Faris in 194- is most mysterious!

For continuation of this diary for rest of 1951 see last volume (Vol. 18, p.274).