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Among other orchids seen were Habenaria chloroleuca and 

 H. conopsea. The latter was seen in two places on the terraced 

 slopes overlooking Longnashade, a hitherto unrecorded locality. 

 The little lough just mentioned was fringed with Phragmites 

 com munis and Menyanthes trifoliala; and in the deeper water both 

 the White and Yellow Water-lilies were in full bloom. Carex 

 paniculaia and other interesting Sedges were collected in the marsh 

 about the lakelet. The visit to the ancient royal stronghold of 

 Emania, now known as Navan fort, yielded the best botanical find 

 of the day, namely the Wood Vetch, Vicia sylvatica, not hitherto 

 recorded from the county. Other notable plants seen were 

 Carduus acanthoides, Lamium album, Juncus giaucus, and Briza 

 media, in all cases so common as to be characteristic of the area 

 visited. On the return to Armagh, by the old road between 

 Navan and St. Patrick's Holy Well, the following were observed — 

 Flower of Dunluce, Geranium pratense,GreaXer Celandine, Comfrey, 

 and Greater Periwinkle, all being apparently garden escapes. 



During the afternoon the members of the Zoological section 

 worked with an ardour which not even the heavy showers of rain 

 could damp. The ornithologists of the party reported that no rare 

 species of birds were observed during the afternoon. Most 

 interesting to some of the members was the sight of a family of 

 Long-tailed Tits feeding on and flying about some willows. A 

 nesting colony of Sand-Martins was observed in the boulder-clay 

 at Carrickaloughran quarry. Here it was noted that the nesting 

 holes of these birds were of much smaller diameter than usually 

 obtains in the sand-banks generally resorted to by this species. 



About forty species of land and fresh water shells were noted, 

 including the spotted variety of the gre.U slug, Limax maximus, a 

 very large form of Arion ater, var. rufa, and many Milax gagates. 

 The rare ' Arianta arbustorum known to live on Navan Fort was not 

 seen on this visit. How far this was due to the presence of a 

 rival snail hunter on the Fort in the shape of a Hedgehog it was 

 difficult to say. Vallonia pulchella was noted at Carrickaloughran 



