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they arrived in animated groups, the botanists had clearly the 

 advantage in the bulk of their collections, for each came laden 

 with a profusion of bloom so characteristic of the season. The 

 district in the vicinity of Dundrum has time after time been 

 visited by botanical explorers. It has a rich and . interesting 

 flora, yielding several plants which are either unknown or very 

 rare elsewhere in the North-East of Ireland. The rock-cress 

 (Arabis hirsuta) was found in some quantity at the Castle. It 

 is 102 years since Templeton, the pioneer of Northern botany, 

 first noted this plant on the walls of Dundrum Castle. It has 

 persisted in this place ever since, though not found elsewhere 

 in the county. An interesting, though not at all conspicuous, 

 plant found in the pond near the castle was Syme's variety, 

 Moorei of Apium inundatum. The specimens here were quite 

 characteristic. In the short time available a good number of 

 scarce plants were picked up. Amongst these may be men- 

 tioned the musky storksbill {Erodium moschatum) and the 

 much smaller but not at all common Erodium maritimum ; also 

 the white campion {Lychnus vesper Una), Viper's bugloss (Echium 

 vulgar e), hound's tongue (Cynoglossum officinale), &c. 



77, 72, 13 July. 



DUNGI VEN 



The members held their fourth field meeting on the nth, 

 1 2th, and 13th July in Dungiven and the Valley of the Roe, 

 an important portion of the ancient territory of Ciunachta or 

 the O'Cathan country. They made Limavady their head- 

 quarters, and accordingly proceeded thence by the Northern 

 Counties Railway, and were received at the Alexandar Arms 

 Hotel with no small share of that " welcome to Limavady " 

 that was so conspicuously proclaimed by banners and decorated 

 arches along the broad street from the railway to the hotel. 



At Roe Park the party were met by the proprietor, Mr. J. 

 E. Ritter, and his amiable lady, who very kindly conducted all 



