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the Manx Shearwater ; but as Mr. Hett syllables the Shearwater's cry 

 under k, as " kittycooroo," there is little likelihood of the deceptive 

 similarity being perceived b}' his readers. The left-hand pages of the 

 handy little book are left blank for observations, and the space thus 

 thoughtfully allowed is not a whit too ample. On the whole, our 

 author's "Dictionary" cannot be pronounced complete; but it will 

 nevertheless be useful, and might certainly form an entertaining pocket 

 companion to ramblers in the haunts of birds. 



C. B. M. 



PI.ANTS FOUND AT KII.I.OUGH, CO. DOWN. 



BY J. H. DAVIES. 



Near the end of last Jul}-, in the course of a few hours 

 pleasant ramble in the neighbourhood of Ardglass and 

 Killoughj a part of the County Down coast which I had never 

 before visited, it was my good fortune to meet with Eleocharis 

 tmiglumis. This, as also two or three other species which 

 were then observed ma}*, to Irish botanists, be of interest 

 enough to warrant me in giving some of my notes thereon : — 



Papavcr hybridum, Linn. — Several plants on the border of a 

 potato field between the road and the railway near Killough, w^here it is 

 associated with P. diibhim. Although this cannot be far distant from 

 the place, " Roadside half-way between Killough and Ardglass," where 

 it was discovered in 1892 by Mr. Praeger {Supp. Fl. N. E. /.), yet in the 

 case of so rare a Poppy it may be worth mentioning that it is still there. 

 When Flora N. E. Ireland ''Na.s, published in 1888, it was known to occur 

 in District XII. only in two localities, not far apart, on the County Down 

 side of Belfast Lough ; and is absent from both the Counties of Antrim 

 and Derry. 



Thrlncia hirta, DC.-- On a wall at the bend of the road from 

 Ardglass to Killough, and in several places along the same road, being 

 most plentiful at that part where it crosses the railway. It still remains 

 to be one of the rarest plants of the north-eastern district. 



Eleocharis unlglumis, Linn. — In some abundance in a salt marsh 

 near Killough, where it grows in company with Blysmus riijus, Carex 

 disticha, and C. extetisa. In point of rarity this Spike-rush is, perhaps, 

 the best plant noticed in my short ramble. Indeed, it has been placed 

 on record for only one station in District XII. — " Very sparingly " near 

 Bangor, Co. Down (S. A. Stewart, 1867). In this place Mr. Stewart tells 

 me that he has not since been able to refind it. But it is a plant that 

 may be expected to occur elsewhere in suitable situations. 



