The Flora of County Arma[rh. i^ 



Armagh" (Dublin, 1804), i" which a few of llie more striking 

 species are quoted, not always with accuracy. Dr. Mackay's 

 *' Flora Hibernica" (1836) supplies some better authenticated 

 notes, which are, however, very few in num])er. In the "Irish 

 Flora" (1846) Co. Armagh is almost entirely overlooked. The 

 first contribution of importance to the flora of the county is 

 contained in Mr. More's paper "Localities for some Plants 

 observed in Ireland," read before the Dublin University 

 Zoological and Botanical Association, in May, i860, and 

 published in the Natural Histoiy Review for that year. The 

 first part of this paper enumerates the rarer plants " noticed 

 in the County of Armagh during April and May, 1854," 'i»d 

 is the result of observations made by the author during a stay 

 at I/OUghgall, in the northern portion of the county ; a 

 number of the characteristic plants of lyough Neagh and the 

 northern bog district are here recorded for the first time. 

 Dr. Dickie's "Flora of Ulster" (1864) gives some interesting 

 notes of Mr. John Templeton's, dating about the beginning 

 of the century, and also some good finds made in the county 

 by Rev. George Robinson, and by Messrs. G. C. Hyndman, 

 William Thompson, and the author himself. More's notes 

 are here republished, but with the addition of an unfortunate 

 mistake. Mr. More, writing from I,oughgall during his visit 

 there, sent to Dr. Dickie a "London Catalogue" with all the 

 plants observed by him in Co. Armagh checked off. The 

 author of " Flora of Ulster " assumed that the plants named 

 had all been found at Loughgall, and published as growing 

 there, for instance, such rarities as Calamagrostis stricta and 

 Lathyrus palustris, which Mr. More had seen on an islet in 

 Lough Neagh, and as subsequently transpired, not in Armagh 

 at all, but in the adjoining county of Tyrone. In " Cybele 

 Hibernica" (1866) these errors are for the most part rectified, 

 and the proper stations given ; some further records by Rev. 

 Mr. Robinson appear, and some valuable notes by Dr. D. 

 Moore. One or two additional notes are gleaned from Mr 

 More's " Recent Additions to the Flora of Ireland," published 

 in the Journal of Botany for 1S73. Stewart and Corr>''s 

 " Flora of the North-east of Ireland " (1888) though dealing 

 with an adjoining district, contains references to one or two 

 rare Armagh plants. From the Proceedings of the Belfast 

 Naturalists' Field Club, 1863-92, are gathered a number of 



