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Pyrola media. If so, it would be interesting if his record of 

 Pinguicula lusitanica from " marshy places " in the same locality 

 could now be similarly confirmed. The marshes on the north, 

 or Ballyboley, side of the railway line yielded all the common 

 orchids. On higher ground, towards Ballyboley Hill, I found 

 Habenaria viridis associated with Rosa spinosissima, and also a 

 delightful profusion of the Moonwort Fern, Botrychium lunaria. 

 The richness of the flora here in orchids and other rare plants 

 points to the desirability of a closer acquaintance with such 

 outlying moorlands, marshes, and hill pastures. 



A more elevated and better known moorland district in 

 Antrim which I visited, accompanied by Mr. N. Carrothers, in 

 July, was the Lough Naroon bogs, south-west of Dunloy. We 

 were rather unfortunate in the matter of weather, as it poured 

 incessantly during the few short hours we spent on this dreary 

 looking tableland of bog and heather. Still, the botanical results 

 of our brief exploration were unexpectedly pleasing. Listera 

 cordata was noted sparingly in the Sphagnum bog. But with the 

 exception of Drosera ang/ica, Vaccinium Vitis-idcea, and Empetrum 

 nigrum, no other rare plants already recorded from the Lough 

 Naroon area were seen by us until we reached the rocky dyke-like 

 protrusion of dolerite to the south-west of the Lough. It was on 

 the lichen covered, craggy rocks at the north end of this 

 escarpment that we found the Vaccinium. An abundant hazel 

 scrub was the dominant feature of the rocks. The whole 

 escarpment is mapped by the Ordnance Surveyors as "The Lough 

 Rock," and its elevation is 701 feet. It is situated in the 

 townland of Glenbuck, and was doubtless visited by botanists 

 before. Yet it fell to our lot to note for the first time the 

 following rare species thereon : — Epilobium angustifolium, Sanicula 

 europcea, Viburnum opuius, Antennaria dioica, Pyrola media, P. 

 minor, and Melampyrum pratense. With the exception of the 

 Guelder Rose, all the plants were in abundance. The group 

 likewise exhibits a typical association. In our subsequent course 



