The Yellow-billed Sheathbill on the Irish Coast. 155 



discredited. Much interesting information on the antarctic 

 and circumtropical species which visit the British shores, will 

 be found in Mr. Henry Seebohm's "Geographical Distribution 

 of British Birds." 



Books containing information on Chionis alba : — 

 Darwin, " NaturaHsts' Voyage." 



" Zoology, Voyage H.M.vS. Beagle (Birds)." 

 Dumeril, " Vo3-age de I'Uraine." 

 ,, "Voyage de la Bonite." 

 Gray, " Genera of Birds." 

 Shaw, "Naturalists' Miscellany." 



,, " General Zoology." 

 Pagenstecher, "Die Vogel slid Georgiens." 



THE FI.ORA OF COUNTY ARMAGH. 



BY R. LLOYD PRAEGKR, B.E., M.R.I. A. 



{Continued from page 134). 



*Verbascum thapsus, Linn. N. 



Near Armagh, but escaped ; apparently not a native of the 

 county, R. LI. P. 



Linaria repens, Ait. S. 



Sparingly on and beside the Greenore railway near the canal 

 locks below Newry, R. LI. P. Its only other station in Ulster lies 

 six miles to the south-east, on the opposite (Co. Down) shore of 

 Carlingford Lough. 



(Scrophularia aquatica, Linn. [N.] 



" The water figwort or 6'o-£'//^z//a;7« a^z^a/zV« . . . grows on the 

 banks of the Newry water." — Cootis Armagh. The determination 

 may be correct, but I saw this species nowhere in the county.) 



lYIelampyrum pratense, Linn. N. M. — 



Mullinure near Armagh, W. F. J. spec. ! On bogs south of An- 



nagariif lake, and between Lough Gullion and Lough Neagh ; in a 



wood a mile S.E. of Tanderagee, and by the Cusher river near Clare 



Castle, R. LI. P. 



IVI. pratense, Linn., var. montanuin, Johnst. S. 



Summit of a rocky hill a mile south of Fathom mountain, at 

 about 800 feet elevation, R. LI. P. 



Veronica montana, Linn. N. M. — 



Copse wdthin the park at Loughgall Manor ! and banks of Lough 

 Neagh, More N.H.R. Tynan Abbey, and upper and lower demesnes 

 at Tanderagee, R, Ll. P. 



V. airi*estis, Linn. N. 



Grange, near Armagh, W. F. J. spec. ! 



*V. buxbaumii. Ten. N. 



A weed in the flower borders at Loughgall Manor, More N.H.R. 

 I did not observe it in the county; it is now quite common in dis- 

 trict 12. 



*IVIcntha rotundifolia, Linn. N. M. S- 



Occasionally, but only as an escape, R. Ll. P. 



