I9TO. Praeger. — Phancrogavis and Vasailar Crypfogavis. 189 



In Glenveagli the abundance of the two Filmy Ferns on 

 stones and tree-stems was remarkable. One dense sheet of 

 H. timbridgense on a boulder measured eight feet long by three 

 feet wide. Extremely large and old Junipers (/. comniimis) 

 are also a feature of the place, as well as luxuriant Lastrea 

 aenuila and L. Oreopfefis. Down the bogg}' valley below Glen- 

 veagh Ca?rx limosa and C. filiforinis were noted, and Popuhis 

 trcvitila. 



A couple of days spent at Bunbeg immediately after the 

 Conference yielded a few plants worthy of note. On the sands 

 were Arabis hirsuta, var. glabrata^ Viola arve^isis, Habeiiaiia 

 co7topsea, Phleiim a7'enarium. Koeleria cristata, and near by grew 

 Potentilla procumbcns, f uncus obttisiflof us<> and Chara vulgaris 

 all three new to West Donegal. Elynins are7iari2cs was seen 

 flourishing in the station given in Hart's work. On Gola 

 Island Scduvi Rhodiola grew on a pebbl}^ beach a few feet above 

 tide level — an unusual situation ; Peplis porhda was frequent 

 on that island, and Cochlcajda 2rae7ila7idica was also found. 



II.— Notes on the Feora of Tory. 



The plants — that is, the Phanerogams and Ferns — of Tory 

 are already well described, thanks to the labours of R. M. 

 Barrington, who spent nearly a week there in Jul}^ 1877, 

 and " examined its flora each day carefulh^," the result being 

 an annotated list of 145 species, published in W\^ Journal of 

 Botany for the same 3'ear (vol. xvii., pp. 263-270). Previous 

 to that, our only information relative to the vegetation of this 

 remote island was contained in an Appendix b}- G. C. H3'nd- 

 man to Edmund Getty's paper,^ published twenty-two 5'ears 

 earlier, which contained a meagre list of forty-two plants, 

 from observations made in 1845. Mr. S. Weir has drawn ni}^ 

 attention to a paper by J. A. Mahony,- written shortl}' after 

 Barrington's visit, in which a few plants are mentioned, in- 

 cluding Carex pa7iicea, not previousl}' recorded. 



In view of Mr. Barrington's work, the chief interest of our 

 recent visit, so far as the higher plants were concerned, la}^ 

 therefore, not in the examination of an unknown flora, but 

 rather in the observation of what changes might have occur- 

 red in the vegetation during the intervening period. The 



1 The Island of Tory : its History and Antiquitie.«. Ulster fournal of 

 Archciology, \., 1 853. 



2 On the Archaeology and Natural History of Tory Island. Proc. Nat. 

 Hist. Soc. Glasgoiv, iv. (1S78 So), pp. 80-84, plates iii-iv., 1879. 



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