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it formed dense groves three feet in height ; and later it was 

 seen in Benderg Bay in plenty. 



From St. John's Point northward to Ballyhornan the coast 

 is very rocky, the rocks generally low, occasionally precipitous. 

 This ground proved as productive as the sands. Cy^ithmum 

 has been recentl}^ added to the North-eastern flora by the dis- 

 covery of three stations in Down, one of which lies in this 

 district — St. John's Point. The plant proved to be frequent, 

 but local. It usually grows on this coast sparingly and 

 stunted on the low, lichen-covered rocks, and is not easy to 

 see; but I found it in seven stations altogether, from the 

 recorded one northward to the north side of Ardglass Harbour. 

 It no doubt extends further ; but rock jumping along these 

 Silurian knife-edges is trying for more than the boots, and 

 palls by degrees. A rarer plant which grew in similar situa- 

 tions was Artemisia viaritima, not previously recorded from 

 Ulster. It was found covering the north face of a large rock— 

 the other side of which was covered with Crithmum — a quarter 

 mile north of Dog's Rock. Subsequently my wife found it at 

 Corbet Head, where it grew so stunted among grey lichens 

 in the chinks of the rocks as to be almost impossible to find- 

 Dundalk was its previous most northern station in Ireland. 

 Another welcome addition to the North-eastern flora was 

 Statice occide^italis. There is abundance of it on the bold 

 headland between Legnaboe and Portnacoo. As previously 

 remarked, Clogher Head in I^outh was its most northerly east 

 coast station hitherto. But the finds that interested me most 

 were some of the clovers that I had lately sought elsewhere. 

 Trifolitim striatum first turned up on the gravelly spit by the 

 breakwater on Coney Island, just opposite Killough pier, and 

 with it was the plant I had sought vainly at Clogher Head and 

 Holywood — Trigonella. Both were remarkably luxuriant here. 

 Some of the plants of T. striatum covered a circle three feet in 

 diameter, and Irigojiella, represented on Howth by tiny 

 specimens the size of half-a-crown, here formed plants 

 measuring a foot or more across. The cold, wet June was no 

 doubt accountable for this. A few hours later I found 

 T, striatum again, on a boss of rock below Ardglass Presby- 

 terian Church. With it, in this instance, grew T. filifortncy 

 another desideratum of the North-eastern flora. This plant was 



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