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EplIoDium roseum, J^inu.— In July last 1 gathered examples of this 

 Epilobe on a wall and iu damp copses in the demesne at Lurgan, Co. 

 Armagh. Although recorded in the Cybch for only Districts V. and 

 XII., the editors are doubtless right iu noting the plant as 

 questionably rare. Its superficial similarity to E. montanum is so 

 very close that it may most easily be passed over. 



Cnicus arvensis, Hoffm., var. setosus (Bess.)— In some plenty in 

 waste ground by a roadside at Lambeg, Co. Down. When seen 

 growing there is a conspicuous difference between the variety and 

 the type. To my mind Sir J. D. Hooker would seem to be quite 

 justified in placing the plant as a sub-species. It is given in Cyb, HUk 

 for District XI. only. Mr. vStewart gives me a note stating that this 

 plant was found by Miss Knowles and himself iu a disused gravel-pit 

 by the road from Kilrea to Garvagh, Co. Derry, July, 1898. 



Scrophularia aquatica, Linn, — Though locally rare in Ireland it 

 appears to have a wide range, and has been recorded from all the 

 botanical districts, with the exception of District X. The blank is 

 now filled through the occurrence of the species, in some plenty, by 

 the margin of the lake in the demesne at Lurgan, Co. Armagh, where 

 it has been observed, independently, by INlr. Richard Hanna and 

 myself. At the same place there is abundance of Elcocharis ackularu> 



F*oIy&onuin minus, Huds. — In August, T met with this species, for 

 which Cybelc gives no Co. Antrim locality, in quantit}- on a gravell}- 

 part of Lough Neagh shore, about half-mile west of the Sixmile- 

 water. The station at Whitehouse, given in F/ora of Ulster and 

 accepted in Flora N.E, Ireland, may, after all, have been right. 



Potamogeton Zizil, Roth. — Occurs in a watercourse between the 

 canal and the River Blackwater at Benburb, and also in the Callan 

 Water, Co. Armagh. 



Eleocharis uniglumis, Link. — Mr. Stewart's only station for this 

 plant in the North- east (near Bangor, Co. Down, 1867) has been lost 

 through building. It has, however, been found to occur on the 

 muddy sea-shore at Groomsport, where I met with it in July last, 

 in considerable quantity. The only other north-eastern locality is 

 Killougli, iu the same county. 



Carex paludosa, Good. — Being one of the rarest of our north-eastern 

 sedges, not recently seen in District XII., it may be worthy of note that 

 it has lately been found in marshy places along the greater part of the 

 County Down shore of Lough Neagh. At the same time I saw it 

 also, but in lesser quantity^ on the County Armagh shore of the 

 Lough, near the junction of the two counties. 



F>oa compressa, Linn. — On a wall by the roadside at Ballyvorally, 

 about midway between Glenavy and Lough Neagh, Co. Antrim, 

 The grass was found here on the excursion of the Belfast Field 

 Naturalists' Club, 4th August. Some time ago the prediction was 

 hazarded that it would prove to be more widely diffused than was then 

 known, and it will most likely be heard of from still other places. 

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