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Tramorc, Watcrford (Miss Trench) ; Mackay, 1859 — ^^"^^ 
spec, in Herb. Mackay in Trinity College, Dublin. First 
found by ]\Iiss Trench in 1839, but not since seen, though 
sought for by R. M. Harrington in 1870 and 1871, and by 
H. C. Hart in 1882. No doubt extinct." I may add that 
the Rev. C. H. Waddell searched for this plant with me 
in 1902, but we did not find it. The locality is two miles 
south of Tramore, and the disappearance of the plant may 
be accounted for by the removal every year of large quan- 
tities of the beautiful gravel forming the beach and headlands 
at the spot. 
This lady, Helena Trench, born in Dublin 1820, died at 
Kilhney 1908, and buried at Loughbrickland, was a 
daughter of the Rev. F. S. and Lady Helena Trench. She 
married Jeffrey Lefroy, Vicar of Aghaderg, and subsequently 
Dean of Dromore. In early life she was an enthusiastic 
botanist, and student of Irish and Continental plants, 
the taste for which she had inherited from her mother. 
Her large and well-preserved herbarium was given by her in 
1885 on the death of her husband when the family left the 
North of Ireland, to the Banbridge Young Men's Christian 
Association. 
George Crawford Hyndman, born in Belfast 1796, died 
at Belfast 1867, was a botanist as v/ell as a conchologist. 
On his death a large collection of his shells was purchased 
for the town of Lurgan, where it still exists in the town hall. 
He had an excellent herbarium, which passed to his nei)hew, 
Mr. Hugh Hyndman, ll.d., and he was well acquainted 
with the plants of Ulster. 
William Thompson, born at Belfast, 2nd November, 
1805, died in London, 17th February, 1852, author of the 
" Natural History of Ireland," ga\'e attention not only to 
the vertebrate and invertebrate animals (except Insecta 
and Infusoria), but also to the vegetable kingdom in all its 
various forms ; he was truly a many-sided naturalist, 
and may fairly be claimed as a botanist. vSome departments 
of cryptogamic botany gave exercise to his powers of 
observation, as shown by his paper — " On a minute Alga, 
which colours Ballydrain Lake," and more especially by 
the number of localities contributed by him to Professor 
