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FIELD NOTES [Plant notes should be sent to P. M. BENOIT, Pencarreg, Barmouth, Mer. insect notes to P. M. MILES, Rhydychen, Abermagwr, Aberystwyth bird notes to BEN FEAVER, Little Milford, Haverfordwest, Penibs.; mammal and other notes to R. M. LOCKLEY, Orielton, Pembroke.] All the records are for 1959, unless otherwise stated. PLANTS PEMBROKE. Equisetum sylvaticum (Wood Horsetail). In a coppiced wood near Freshwater East on 28th May. (J. W. Donovan.) Epilobium pedunculare (New Zealand Willow-herb). Many plants in Treffgarne quarry on 11th July. (J.W.D.) First record for the county ? Carex pendula (Pendulous Sedge). Castlemartin, on 14th July. (J.W.D.) CARDIGAN. Ophrys apifera (Bee Orchid). About 5 flowering specimens, plus a few more," in the locality in the north of the county where there were about 70 in 1958. (E. H. CHATER.) Orchis incarnata (' Early Marsh Orchid'). Several of the flesh- coloured subspecies incarnata, with 0. ericetorum and a purple marsh orchid near 0. purpurella, in a gully near the cliffs at Mwnt on 18th June. (W. M. CONDRY.) [0. incarnata in Borth Bog (between Llancynfelyn and Ynyslas) and in Tregaron Bog (below Ynys-y-Berfedd) (see SALTER, Fl. Pl. and Ferns Cards., 139) is the subspecies pulchella, with bright purple flowers approaching those of O. purpurella in colour. (P. M. Benoit.)] MERIONETH. Equisetum sylvaticum (Wood Horsetail). In small quantity with Orchis Fuchsii and Crepis paludosa in a wet shady place near Drws-y- Nant on 23rd June. (Mrs. H. M. Richards.) This species is rare in Merioneth. The only other localities now known are near Hafod-y-Meirch and above Llyn Gwernan, both near Dolgellau, and near Aber Cowarch, Dinas Mawddwy. Asplenium septentrionale (Forked Spleenwort). 10 plants in a new locality near Llanymawddwy, on 14 April. (E. H. and A. O. CHATER and W. M. CONDRY.) Asplenium marinum (Sea Spleenwort). On the sea cliff. between Friog and Llwyngwril; a single patch in a cranny of a north-facing rock, on 10th July. A. marinum does not seem to have been seen in this locality for many years, but it has been known there for a century. The Rev. T. SALWEY says in a Barmouth guide of 1863,