262- The Irish Naturalist. October, 



of Ballywalter to Green Island, and for long stretches along this 

 eleven miles of coast it forms a broad yellow fringe above high water 

 mark. It must be an increasing species in the Ards, as it was not 

 observed there until 1893. 



Cfirastium semidecandrum, L. — Cloghey Bay. 



Sagrlna nodosa, Fenzl. — Seen only at Marlfield Bay on Strangford 

 Ivough. 



Geranium columbinum, L.— On stony flat ground along the base 

 of a loose stone wall on the N.W. edge of Lough Cowey, growing 

 among Ulex, Rzibus, Nepeta Glechoma, Veronica Cha?}icediys, &c. There 

 was a good deal of the plant here over a small area, and it occurred 

 again on the edge of a lane a few hundred yards awa}'. No 

 evidence of possible introduction, such as recent disturbance of the 

 ground, presence of non-nativ^e species, &c., was to be .seen, and I 

 regard the plant as indigenous here. 



Trifolium arvensc, L. — In crops at Lough Cowey. 



Agrrimonia odorata, Mill. — Roadside at Granagh Bay near Porta- 

 ferry. Grows 6ft. high among bushes on edge of Bally finragh Lough. 



Potcrlum officinale, Hook. fil. — The range of this rare and local 

 plant in its only Down station (Pastures, Donaghadee, Miss Maffett — 

 Flo7'. Belf., 1863) has never been worked out. One of our Belfast 

 botanists might advantageously spend a day in doing this. Miss 

 Maft'ett's station is, no doubt, that in which it has been subsequently 

 found by Corry and by Davies — about half-a-mile south of the town. 

 The railway to Donaghadee was constructed in 1861, and the plant 

 appears to have then seized on the favourable habitat afi^orded by 

 its slopes and fences. Mr. Davies found it on a railway bank " near 

 Donaghadee." To me it revealed itself at once by the railway, on 

 the west side of the bridge under the Millisle road, and I traced it 

 westward along the line for over a quarter of a mile, growing 

 abundantly on the railway slopes and edges of fields immediately 

 adjoining. 



Eryngium maritimum, L.— Only seen sparingly (not abundantly, 

 as done by Mr. Stewart) in Templeton's original station below 

 Kirkistone Castle. 



Sium augustifolium, L.— Common in marshes in the southern part 



of the Ards. 

 Crithmum maritimum, L.— Only seen in Mr. S. A. Moore's station, 



a quarter of a mile north of Kearney village, where there is an 



enormous clump of it on the beach. 

 Ligusticum scoticum, L.— Noted by Templetou in 1793 from 



"about Donaghadee and the Copeland Isles," its most southern 



stations in Ireland, and since seen in the latter locality by Corry. 



I can extend its limit some twelve miles further, having found it in 



plenty at Butterlump rock, and again more sparingly half-a-mile 



north of that fine erratic. 



