poverty of the flora of these mountains was noticed as remarkable. 

 The plants that occupied their heathy and boggy slopes were few 

 in number, and included very few that were at all rare. The least 

 of all the willows, Salicc herbacea, was found on the summit of 

 Dart, in full flower, though only about two inches high. These 

 rocks also yielded the Starry Saxifrage (Saxifraqa stellaris), while 

 the cliffs at Benbradagh were cushioned in places with matted 

 masses of the Spring Sand-wort (Alsine verna). A very superficial 

 search was made for mosses, and was not without success. Tay- 

 loria serrata, a species not before known in Ireland, was found on 

 the mountains above Dungiven. This is a fine, handsome moss, 

 hitherto supposed to occur only on the higher Scottish mountains. 

 A more complete examination of these hills would, doubtless, reveal 

 other bryological rarities. The whole of this journey occupied a 

 week, and ultimately extended to Lough Derg, in County Donegal. 

 Several points were touched on in the Counties Tyrone, Donegal, 

 and Fermanagh ; and a number of plants were noticed in these 

 counties that have not previously been recorded as occurring there. 

 These were, however, common species, and the reader was satisfied 

 that the scantiness of the recorded floras of some of these counties 

 was not due really to the absence of so many common plants, but 

 rather to the want of local observers. Specimens were shown of 

 Tayloria serraia and other plants referred to in the paper, and also 

 of a large number of common species that make up the bulk of the 

 vegetation of the Sperrin Mountains. 



At the conclusion of Mr. Stewart's paper, a specimen was shown 

 of the Lesser Snapdragon (Antirrhinum orontium), collected by Miss 

 Mulgan, at Struell, near Downpatrick. The Lesser Snajjdragon is 

 a plant of the South of Ireland, but has not been previously 

 recorded further North than Dublin. 



On Thursday evening, 10th January, Mr. William Gray read 

 a paper entitled " A Visit to Belleek Pottery." In tracing the 

 history of the art, he described the characteristic of Egyptian, 

 Grecian, and Roman Pottery, and referred to the several potteries 



