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Island bog can boast only a very small piece of the 

 original surface, and that is now quite drained, covered 

 with Myrica, Scirpus ccBspitosus, Q-vl^. Molinia. Andromeda, a 

 plant impatient of disturbance or drainage, is probably now 

 extinct in Down, but Drosera anglica, V. Oxy coccus, and 

 Rhynchospora alba ma}^ yet linger in wet corners. Though I 

 saw no trace of them, I added, on these old bogs, one plant 

 to the Down flora, namely Lastrea spinulosa. A young clump 

 was seen near the road i J miles N.W. of Wolf Island, and later a 

 colony of ver}^ fine plants, 2 to 3 feet high, at the west side of 

 Wolf Island bog. Carex curta is still abundant there, with 

 Utricularia inino7 ; but the bog plant-association is gone for 

 ever. 



My notes of Ards plants have been subjected to a copious 

 weeding-out, on comparison with Flora of the North-east of 

 Ireland (1888), its Stipplement {i^g^), and other published notes. 

 The balance may be arranged as follows : — 



Thalictrum dunense, Dum. — vSand-dunes opposite Green Island, 

 and roadside bank near same place. 



Ranunculus Lingrua, ly. — Abundant around Lough Cowey, and in 

 marsh lialf-a-mile S.B. of that lake. 



Papaver Rhaeas, L.— Sparingly at Millin Bay, and two miles N.:^. 

 of Portaferry. 



Glaucium flavum, Crantz.— Cannot now be described as "plentiful 

 from Kearney's Point to near Ballyhalbert " {Fl. N.E.). I found it 

 occasionally from Millin Bay to Newcastle (Ards), being abundant 

 only about Kearney and south of Quintin Castle. Several of the 

 maritime plants appear to have diminished since Mr. Stewart 

 explored the Ards, and others to have increased. See under Eryngium 

 and Raplianus ina7'itimus. 



Brassica alba, Boiss.— Abundant in cultivated land at Bar Hall Bay 

 and at Newcastle. 



Crambc maritima, L.— Mr. S. A. Moore wrote me last year that 

 the Sea-kale grew " in a small bay south of Tara Point." In South 

 Bay, evidently the spot indicated, I found a grand colony of this 

 rare and decreasing species, of which I failed to find a trace in Mr. 

 Stewart's station a mile further north. About a dozen clumps were 

 in grand fruit, forming grey hemispherical masses four feet across. 

 Another dozen large clumps were without fruit or flower, and at 

 least twenty young plants were also present. 



Raphanus maritimus, Smith.— Has been recorded from Bally- 

 walter (Davies) and Ballyhalbert (Praeger), but this gives no idea of 

 the extraordinary profusion of this plant on the Ards coast, which 

 is not equalled elsewhere in Ireland. It ranges from two miles north 



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