io8 The Irish Naturalist. October, 1923. 



REVIEW. 



The North-eastern Flora. 



A Second Supplement to, and Summary of Stewart and Corry's 

 Flora of the North-east of Ireland. Compiled by Sylvanus 

 Wear, with an Introduction by R. Lloyd Praeger. 8vo, pp. xii-|- 

 129. Belfast : W. Erskine Mayne, 1923. 5s. 6d. net. 



This publication is designed to give at a glance a view of the north- 

 eastern flora and its distribution within the counties of Down, Antrim 

 and Londonderry, and at the same time to provide detailed information 

 relative to additions to the flora and additional stations of the rarer species, 

 made since the publication of the 1895 " Supplement " of Stewart and 

 Praeger, which carried on the story of local floristic research from the date 

 of the original " Flora " (1888). 



The present compilation is due to the industry of Sylvanus Wear, 

 who died within a week of completing the MS. It shows that knowledge 

 of the north-eastern flora has advanced steadily. A good many plants 

 have been added to the flora, and what is equally important, a good many 

 of the " missing " species of the first Supplement have been re-discovered 

 in the district. Among these are some plants very local in Ireland, such 

 as Lathy rus palustris, Trifolium striatum, Pyrola secunda, Calamagrostis 

 Epigejos. 



Of plants which the efforts of local botanists have not succeeded in 

 re-finding, the most important are Carex elongata, Polypodium Dryopteris 

 and Pilularia globulifera. These were among the many local discoveries 

 of Dr. David Moore, the first and third belonging to the Lough Neagh 

 flora, while the second was seen on Knocklayd near Ballycastle. 



The work is embellished with photographs of Sylvanus Wear and other 

 local botanists, and of Spiranthes Romanzoffiana, the most interesting 

 species of the local flora. 



OBITUARY. 



Madame Christen. 



We observe with regret an announcement of the death of Madame 

 Christen {ree Thompson) which took place at Llandudno on July 1 6th. 

 As Miss Sydney Mary Thompson she was a well known and much appre- 

 ciated member of the Belfast Naturalists' Field Club for many years. 

 When, stimulated by the work of Prof. Percy Kendall, the Club organized, 

 in 1893) research on the local glacial deposits. Miss Thompson undertook the 

 Secretaryship of the Committee, and for six or seven years furnished 

 reports in which a large body of useful observations were recorded, the 

 tabulation of local erratics and their origin being a valuable piece of work. 

 She served on the Committee of the Club for a number of years, and her 

 departure from Belfast, consequent on her marriage to the artist Rodolphe 

 Christen, left the Club poorer by the loss of one of its most active members. 



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