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M.D., growing in bushy places near the River Main in 

 Shane's Castle Park, June, 1890. 

 Primus cerasus, Linn. Recorded from shores of Lough Neagh 

 by Templeton nearly a century ago, and from two stations 

 in Co. Derry by Dr. Moore some 50 years back, but not 

 recently seen in the district. Mr. Praeger now records it 

 from near Crawfordsburn, Co. Down, 1882 ; and from 

 Annalong and near Clandeboye demesne, Co. Down, 1890. 



Hieracium stenolepis, Lind. First mentioned as a British plant 

 by Mr. Hanbury in the Journal of Botany for June, 1888, 

 and first recognised as Irish by Mr. Hanbury in 1889, from 

 specimens gathered on the Cave Hill, near Belfast, in 1886, 

 by Mr. Praeger. Mr. S. A. Stewart has since worked out 

 the local distribution of the species, and finds it plentiful on 

 the basaltic cliffs of the Cave Hill, Knockagh, and Sallagh 

 Braes, and more abundant in those stations than H. 

 murorum, to which it is closely allied. H. stenolepis is 

 conspicuously absent from the Mourne range. 



Lobelia Dortmanna, Linn. Abundant in a lakelet on summit 

 of Binnagee, near Carnlough, Co. Antrim, at an elevation 

 of 1 100 feet, R. Lloyd Praeger, 1890. Only previous 

 Antrim record was the shores of Lough Neagh, at a much 

 lower elevation. 



Hottonia palustris, Linn. The original, and, excepting Down- 

 patrick, the only Irish station for this beautiful plant, 

 would appear to be " marshy ditches on the right side of 

 the road at Everogue bridge near Downpatrick," {Templeton 

 MS.), where it was found by Richard Kennedy about 181 6. 

 More recently it was discovered on the lands of Inch, and 

 near the Quoile railway bridge, both close to Downpatrick, 

 and it would appear to have been assumed that this was 

 Kennedy's station. Everogue's Bridge, however, is the old 

 name for the village of Crossgar, five miles N.N.W. of 

 Downpatrick, and here the plant still grows abundantly 

 where described by Templeton, in ditches on the right (or 



