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interesting plants added to the flora of the Ulster counties 

 during the past two years, and showed specimens. Among 

 the best finds are the following: — Monaghan, Nitella mucro- 

 nata, found by Rev. G. R. Bullock-Webster; Fermanagh, 

 Pyrola secunda and Trichomanes radicans, found by W. N. 

 T'etley ; Saxifraga aizoides, by W. A. Barnes ; and Sisyrin- 

 chium angustifolium, by J. T. Abraham; Donegal, Malaxis 

 yaludosa, found by Dr. Campbell; Antrim, Carex irrigua, 

 found by Miss Eleanor D'Arcy, and Spiranthes Romanzoffiana, 

 by Willam West, of Bradford; Down, Stellaria glauca, Tri- 

 gonella ornithopodioides, Trifoliwm filiforme, Artemisia mari- 

 tima, Statice occidentalis, Fotaniogeton plantagineus, Chara 

 polycantha, by R. LI. Praeger. 



Rev. C. H. Waddell, Mr. R. Welch, and the President 

 made some brief remarks on the paper read. 



The election of two new members brought the proceed- 

 ings to a close. 



" RAMBLES AMONG AND ABOUT THE MOURNE 

 MOUNTAINS." 



The fourth meeting of the Winter Session was held in 

 the Museum on 17th February, when Mr. Nevin H. Foster 

 read a paper entitled " Rambles among and about the Mourne 

 Mountains." The members assembled in the Museum at 7-30 

 for the usual science gossip half-hour, and at eight o'clock 

 adjourned to the lecture-room. Mr. Francis J. Bigger, 

 M.R.I. A., presided over the large attendance of members. 



Mr. Foster, in the course of his address, said the Mourne 

 Mountains form the most elevated land in Ulster, and cover 

 an elliptical area of about fourteen miles by seven miles; 

 thirteen of the summits rising to heights of two thousand feet 

 and upwards. They are principally composed of a tough grey 

 granite, which has thrust itself through the older series of 

 ordovician and silurian strata. Signs of severe glaciation are 

 observable in many places throughout the district, and several 

 of the valleys contain well-marked moraines, one of the most 

 noticeable being that which blocks the glen of the Kilkeel 



