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broom rape {Orobanche rubra) and three hawkweeds {Hieracium 

 doreale, H. anglicum, and H. stenolepis), of which the latter has 

 not been previously recorded from Ireland. The party shortly 

 afterwards separated. 



On September 6th, to 



GLENARM. 



Queen's weather is well known and almost proverbial, and 

 during our last two summers of cloud and rain has been 

 often sighed for in vain ; but Field Club weather promises, 

 among a smaller circle, to obtain a reputation even more 

 enviable. Of the seven days, ranging from May to September, 

 announced in the Club's summer programme as the dates of 

 their excursions, six have turned out as fine as that which on 

 Saturday last delighted the hearts of townspeople and farmers 

 alike, and caused those whom business or pleasure had brought 

 out into the country to feel that to be allowed to live, to feel 

 the fresh, cool breeze and watch the brilliant sunlight, was 

 alone a privilege great and gracious. So thought the party of 

 naturalists who on Saturday morning took an early train to 

 Larne, and, on geological discovery intent, drove through the 

 town and out along the coast road. Halting at Waterloo, a 

 profitable hour was spent in examining the interesting variety 

 of secondary rocks there exposed. Below the mass of white 

 Chalk which overhangs the road occur reddish beds of impure 

 limestone, the numerous fossils of which show that they form 

 the upper portion of the Greensand formation. On the shore 

 below, an extensive series of Liassic rocks crop out. They dip 

 northward at a somewhat high angle, so that by walking south- 

 ward along the shore between tide-marks the whole series, 

 some two hundred feet in thickness, may be examined from top 

 to bottom. Geological picks and chisels being brought into 

 play, a number of characteristic fossils were obtained, and others, 

 washed* out of the softer zones, were picked up on the beach. 



