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 A BOTANICAL TRIP TO CO. ANTRIM. 



BY \V. A. SHOOLBRED, M.R.C.S., CHEPSTOW. 



{Concluded from page 149.) 



Lythrum salicaria. L- — I do not recollect ever before having seen 

 piis plant forming such grand masses of colour as it did last summer, 

 especially in Glenariffe and Glendun. The flowers were brighter in 

 colour than usual, no doubt in consequence of the unusual duration of 

 bright sunlight. 



Epilobium palustre, Iy.— Glenariffe, Glendun, Fair Head, Causeway, 

 &c. 



E. obscurum x palustre (Teste B. S. Marshall).— Glenariffe, 

 Glenshesk, and Giant's Causeway. 



Circoea alpina, h. — Glenariffe. 

 var. intermedia (Ehr.) — Glenariffe and Glenshesk. 



Galium boreale, L.— Sparingly by the stream in the upper part of 

 Glenariffe. 



Valeriana officinalis, L.— Common, but only var. Mikanii 

 noticed. 



Centranthus ruber, DC — Wall near Ballycastle. 



Cnaphalium syivaticum, L.— Glenariffe, sparingly. 



Chrysanthemum segetum, L. — Extremely common in tillage 

 fields, while field poppies appear to be equally rare. In this part of the 

 West of England C. segetum is a decidedly rare plant. 



Matricaria inodora, L. b. salina, Bab. — Giant's Causeway, &c. ; 

 c. maritima, Linn. — Red Bay. 



Arctium nemorosum, Lej. — Fair Head. 



Crepis paludosa, Moench. — Glendun. 



Hieracium anglicum, Fr. — Frequent on the cliffs along the coast; 

 Fair Head, cliffs at Giant's Causeway, Co. Antrim ; Beneveuagh, Co. 

 Derry. 



This and H. iricum appear to grow more abundantly at quite low eleva- 

 tions in County Antrim than is usually the case in West Scotland. The 

 plants, too, growing at these low elevations are generally very luxuriant 

 with flower stems much branched and numerous heads of flowers. Near 

 Garron Head, at a few feet above sea-level, some very large specimens 

 were gathered, and near the bridge over the Cushenilt Burn one with a 

 single much-branched flower-stem bearing forty flower-heads in all 

 stages of development. Of this Mr. Hanbury writes " H. anglicum, Fr. 

 form." These plants have a very different appearance from the ordinary 

 two- or three-headed highland forms. 



A plant from a bank by the Parkmore road on the north side of 

 Glenariffe, of which Mr. Hanbury writes, "I think only a form of H. 

 anglicum grown in a dry exposed place," looked, when gathered, very 

 unlike this species, the root-leaves forming a close flat rosette, from 

 almost orbicular to ovate, nearly entire, very shortly petioled, very 

 glaucous, coreaceous, and bearing on their surface numerous stiff white 

 hairs. No stem-leaf. Stem one-headed with a few abortive buds in the 

 axils of linear bracts. The involucre less hairy and rather more floccose 

 than in most forms of anglicum. 



Another from Sallagh Braes, which Mr. Hanbury also considers a 

 form of anglicum, has thin long-petioled root-leaves very deeply and 

 acutely dentate in the lower half, teeth patent ; stem-leaf none, or one 

 narrow, sessile, and quite low down ; heads one to three. 



On the Giant's Causeway cliffs a form with purple-spotted leaves was 

 found, very similar to a form seen a week or two later in Perthshire. 



