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knowledged particular help received from S. A. Stewart, Robert 

 Bell, and other members of the Section. 



The thanks of the Section are due for the following gifts : — 

 Professor A. J. Cole, F.G.S., M.R.I.A., '• The Rocks of 



Slieve Gallion." Trans. Royal Dublin Society. 

 R. Welch, Erratics dredged up near Rathlin. 

 W. De V. Kane, M.A., Specimen of Diorite. 

 R. Bell, Collection of opals from Sandy Braes. 



,, Collection of Zeolites from Squires Hill. 

 Leo W. Bell, Graptolites from new locality near Bally- 



nahinch. 

 F. Chapman, F.R. M.S., Two Micro-Slides of Carboniferous 



Limestone. 



JAS. ST. J. PHILLIPS, 



Hon. Sec. of Sectio?i. 



LOCAL BOTANICAL NOTES, 1895-97. 



By R. Lloyd Praeger, B.E. 



During the three seasons that have now elapsed since the 

 Supplement to the blora of the North-east of Ireland was 

 published, although no extensive botanical work has been 

 carried out in our district, local observers have not been idle, 

 and a summing up of results shows several additions to the 

 flora, some valuable re discoveries of species supposed to be 

 extinct, and interesting extensions of the range of several of our 

 rarest plants. The additions to the flora of district XII. include 

 Cochlearia anglzca, Rnbus oigoclados var., Crithmum 

 maritimum, Galium erectum (the G. Mollugo of former lists), 

 and Glyceria plicata. Equally important, and to the local 

 field botanist even more interesting, is the restoring to the local 

 list of certain plants which have long been sought in vain, and 

 were believed to be extinct in the district. Such are Epilobium 

 roseum, one of Templeton's records, which Mr. Davies has 

 recently discoveied in several stations in the Lagan valley; 



