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Proceedings, 



SUMMER SESSION 



DAISY HILL, NEWRY. 



The first excursion of the Club during the Summer session 

 was held on Saturday, 31st May, when twenty-two members 

 travelled from Belfast by the 9-55 train to Newry. Upon 

 arrival at Newry the President (Rev. Canon Lett, M.R.I.A.), 

 conducted the party to Smith's famous nurseries on Daisy Hill. 

 At the entrance the members were met by Mr. Thomas Smith, 

 who, having bidden them welcome to Newry, took over the duties 

 of guide for the remainder of the day. 



After lunch a small party proceeded to explore Camlough 

 Mountain in search of Mosses and Hepatics, while the remainder 

 stayed in the gardens or walked up the valley by the canal towing 

 path. In this waterway were found enormous numbers of the 

 Water-Snail, Paludestrina jenkinsi. Its complete absence above 

 the first lock, just outside the town, suggests that this species is 

 spreading inland from the estuary marshes, where it has been 

 known to occur for some years. Little collecting was done 

 during the day, but one of the small lily-tanks in a greenhouse at 

 the nurseries yielded four species of Fresh-water Snails — Limncea 

 pereger, Planorbis corneus, P. carinatus, and Bithynia tentaculata. 

 These were no doubt imported with plants. 



In the afternoon the Bryologists of the party had a ramble 

 up the Newry or Camlough Mountain through the townland of 

 Carriffkeeny, which is an appropriate name for the place, as it 

 means " The Rock of Mosses," and plenty were collected on this 

 occasion, and also the following uncommon Hepatics — Scapania 



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