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the prevailing number is six. A set of specimens from five of 

 the patches in the Glenmore meadow was sent to Mr. Colgan, 

 to w^hom I am beholden for much kind assistance. Three of 

 these he considered to be G. ereduvi, but the other two, in 

 which the form of leaf is less narrow, he would hesitate to 

 refer to that species. To my mind they seem to be forms of 

 the same, and are certainly unlike any of the many typical 

 examples of G. Molhigo which have come before me ; and if 

 they must be regarded as varieties, then I think they ought to 

 be associated with G. erechim rather than with the other 

 species. It is, however, satisfactory that, to use his own words, 

 Mr. Colgan is " now quite convinced of the occurrence of 

 G, erectu77i at L<isburn." 



At the Saintfield station Mr. Waddell has discovered the 

 plant growing in a second place, which he describes as 

 "practically a meadow." 



Between the plants in the two places here, there is also 

 some slight difference, the leaves in one being rather narrower 

 than those in the other, but that both are to be set down to 

 G. e7'ectu77i there cannot be any doubt. Freshly gathered 

 examples have not been obtained from Glenarm and 

 Aghaderg, but good specimens, collected some ten years ago, 

 have been supplied from the former place by Mr. Praeger, 

 and from the latter by Rev. H. W. L,ett, and in both cases the 

 plant previously recorded as G. Mollugo must be referred to 

 G. erectu77i. 



Of all the plants that have been under examination, the 

 two extremes appear in the examples from Derry and 

 Cullybackey. Of the Derry plant, which grows very 

 luxuriantly on the landward side of an embankment along 

 the shore of Lough Foyle at Eglinton, Mrs. Leebody very 

 kindl}' sent me immature specimens gathered nth May, but 

 no doubt the plant was above ground very much earlier, 

 because the stems were of considerable length, and the flower 

 buds beginning to show. The characters, save in the remark- 

 able robustness of the plant, resembled more closely those of 

 G. erectu77i than those of G. Mollugo. 



The mature plants with which Mrs. Leebody afterwards 

 favoured me, were fully four feet in length, very much 

 branched, and the leaves broad lanceolate. The profuseness 

 of the inflorescence, nearly all the branches producing flowers, 



