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also of uniisual robustness, some of the specimens spreading 

 among the low herbage, forming patches a foot across. A 

 short distance awa}^ to the northward was a second patch of 

 TrigoneLla^ like the first patch small in quantity and luxuriant 

 in growth. T. striattim was then found covering in immense 

 abundance almost every rock on the north side of Ardglass 

 Harbour; subsequently in quantity from Portnacoo to Bally- 

 hornan village, and finally in several places from Janeville to 

 Rossglass chapel. Trio^onella I was glad to find for a third 

 time on a boss of rock on the north side of Sheepland Harbour, 

 a lonely little rock}^ bay. On this coast T. striatuyyt and its 

 companions are particularly partial to low glaciated bosses of 

 rock, where the}^ grow among Thymits, Anthyllis, Scilla vema^ 

 Trifolium vmms, and Medicago lupitliyia. 



Near Killough Station the Railway Company has excavated 

 a large portion of the raised beach for ballast, and a number 

 of the rarer local plants have invaded the bare ground thus 

 formed. Here grow all four Poppies — Rhcsas^ duJjium, Arge- 

 mone, hy1}ridiim ; Leojitodon hirtits, Festiica rigida. Towards 

 Coney Island all four Poppies were seen in greater abundance 

 than they ma}'- be found anywhere else in the North-east, 

 p. hyhidiivt being particularly common. All have been 

 recorded from this neighbourhood, except P. Argemonc^ 

 previously known only from the extreme north of the county ; 

 but it proved to be not rare in this district. 



The brackish Strand Lough near by yielded great groves of 

 Ca^ex riparia, and in drains by the railway such plants as 

 Eleochajis imiglumis, Scirptis paticifloms, and 6*. 7ujus, and 

 Potamogeton flabellatus, the last not previously recorded from 

 the North-east, and having, indeed, only one previous station in 

 Ulster. 



Lastly, as to the marshes. I anticipated good results here, 

 so marked in on the i-inch map, from off the 6-inch, the posi- 

 tions of twenty or thirty marshy bits. With the assistance of 

 a bicycle and a pair of old boots, I visited and waded them all. 

 Wherever a felt of creeping plants formed a skin over the mud 

 and water below — as it did in the majority of cases — this felt 

 was found to consist mainl}^ sometimes almost exclusively, of 

 Juncus obtusifiorus^ Carex teretiuscula^ and C.filiformis^ plants 

 which were reckoned as among the very rarest in County 



