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several collections submitted in competition for the prizes offered 

 were exhibited. Mr. S. A. Stewart exhibited flowers and fruit of 

 the Broad Bitter-vetch ( Vicia erobus). The specimens of this 

 very rare plant were collected during the summer of 1873, from 

 the inland cliffs near Lame, known as the " Sallagh Braes." Vicia 

 orobus has been found in Galway, and in King's County ; but 

 the locality mentioned above is the only certain station in the 

 North of Ireland. It has been stated, on the authority of one of 

 the early British botanists (Sherrard), that it grew at Rostrevor, 

 in County Down ; but the record has been discredited, it being 

 thought that there was an error in the identification of Sherrard's 

 specimen. The effect of the finding of the plant in an almost inac- 

 cessible portion of the Sallagh cliffs is, however, to render it more 

 probable that the early record was correct, and that the plant may 

 still grow on the Mourne mountains. 



