440 [Proc. B.N.F.C, 



by the more warliKe branches of the race, coming from whence 

 no one knows. (Applause.) 



The paper was spoken to by the President, Miss Andrews, 

 Mrs. Hobson ; Messrs. Gray, Dickson, Green, May, Milligan, 

 Fennell, and Donaldson, and, the lecturer having replied, the 

 proceedings terminated. 



"SOME RECENT RECORDS IN OUR LOCAL FLORA." 



By W. J. C. Tomlinson. Read before the Botanical Section, 

 7th April, 1906. 



The close of the 1905-6 Session of the Field Club has led 

 our Sectional Secretary to spread his annual net in the hope of 

 securing from the working members some noteworthy plant 

 records or other botanical gleanings. It is at his request, 

 therefore, that I have brought together a few of the notes I 

 made during the course of last season. I am not certain that 

 they are worth recording, but such as they are, I now bring 

 them before you. 



On the occasion of the Club Excursion to Dungannon, I 

 obtained Ranunculus trichophyllus in an old carboniferous lime- 

 stone quarry-hole at Killyharry, south-east of Donaghmore. 

 Vicia angustifolia was met with the same day on a quarry spoil- 

 bank near Carland. In both cases these were new localities, 

 and second records for County Tyrone. A day or two after- 

 wards I came across a good display of Ranunculus trichophyllus 

 in a swamp on the marshy heath between Castlerock and Down- 

 hill Castle. Hitherto this crowfoot had only been met with in 

 County Derry on a marsh at Magilligan. Parnassia palustris 

 I found growing over a very restricted area on the moist grassy 

 flat between the Portstewart sand hills and the River Bann, a 

 new locality for Derry. A rarer and most interesting County 

 Derry find was the Scale Fern, Ceterach oficinarum, which 

 occurs sparingly on a bridge over the Agivey river, west of 

 Garvagh. Long unknown in the county, this plant was observed 



