NOTES ON PHE FLORA OF CO, ARMAGH, 289 
heath-clad hills, with flat stretches of poor land bet ; the 
highest of these hills is Slieve nian (1898 ft.), fnennet in es 
romance as the scene of marvellous adventures, and as the home 
of dread magicians and of frightful monsters. 
The flora of County Armagh had not in past years received a 
large amount of attention from local botanists, and, though a 
number of records of rare plants existed, they were the result of 
desultory rather than of spaisostia search. It appeared, soni 
especially in view of the approaching publication of a new edition 
of Cybele Hibernica, that a botanical survey of the sounes was 
desirable, and with this object I devoted a eae: weeks’ holiday last 
season to a rapid investigation of its phanerogamic 
full list of plants obtained, and their sakiome, the reader is referred 
to the pages of the Irish Naturalist (J anuary- August, 1893) ; in the 
present notes I wish merely to indicate the more interesting features 
of the flora, to point out the effect of varying petrological conditions, 
and to briefly compare the Armagh flora with that of adjoining 
The total number of plants found in the county, omitting those 
whose claim to be considered native is more than doubtful, is 616. 
There is a poverty of maritime and montane species ; the former is 
of course to be expected; as regards the latter, the scantiness of 
of the southern hills. Out of forty-seven Irish plants of Highland 
type, only four occur in Armagh, and none dh them are confined to 
alpine situations. Galium Bits inhabits only the shores of — 
Neagh (50 ft. ——— father Vitis- rend is recorded from the 
northern bogs (50-100 ft.), a s also on the summit of. Slieve 
Gullion (1893 ft.) ; Seaginela pecio ranges from 700 ft. upwards; 
and “ie lacustris in lakes from 200 to 444 ft. Not a single 
Hawkweed (excepting of course ene ubiquitous H. Pilosella) was 
found in ‘the county, although me least fourteen species inhabit the 
adjoining granite hills of Mour Of Mr. Watson’s Atlantic type, 
Co. Armagh possesses only ac ve out of forty-one Irish species— 
Sedum anglicum, Cotyledon Umbilicus, Pinguicula lusitanica, Lastrea 
— Hymenophyllum tunbridgense, Out of ate Irish Ger- 
ants, one only, Orchis pyrantel grows in the c pees 
connecting waters: includes the it ‘of I es gh Neagh, and the 
banks of the Bann, Newry Canal, Blackwater, and Uleter Canal. 
Cicuta, Ginanthe fistulosa, Butomus, and Sagittaria are abundant 
of Lough Neagh. Confined to this Ems 6 and occurring in some 
Siuaiants therein, are Drosera anglica, D. intermedia, Vaccinium 
Oxycoccos, Rhynchospora alba, Osmunda rome Ulex Galli is con- 
