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WASHING BAY. 



A visit was paid on 25th July to Washing Bay by a party of 

 twenty-four members mainly from the botanical section of the 

 Club. This inlet of Lough Neagh lies at the extreme south- 

 western corner of the great lake, in the County Tyrone, and is not 

 easy of access from Belfast. Leaving Belfast by motor at one 

 o'clock the little village of Maghery was reached in just under two 

 hours. Here the vehicle was left and the party at once proceeded 

 to the ferry and crossed the Blackwater, which at this spot divides 

 the counties Armagh and Tyrone. The sandy shores of the lake 

 proved excellent collecting ground for the botanists, as well as the 

 great stretch of bogland which lies behind the shore. Among the 

 most interesting plants found on the lake shore was the American 

 Orchid Spiranthes Romanzoffiana, an addition to the flora of 

 Tyrone ; also Teesdalia nudicaulis, Cicuta virosa, and Anthemis 

 nobilis, Filago minima, Lysimachia vulgaris, L. Nummularia, and 

 Lycopus eiiropceus was also seen growing on the shore here. On 

 the Armagh side of the river the Flowering Rush, Butomus 

 umbellatus was noted, with Moneywort, Lysimachia Nummtdaria. 

 On the bog on the Tyrone side of the river a great abundance of 

 the Heath, Erica Tetralix, and the Sundew Drosera rotundifolia 

 was observed, while the rarer Drosera anglica and the Beak Rush, 

 Rynchospora alba were also noted. 



The finding of the Centipede, Lamyctes (Henicops) fulvicornis 

 Meinert, at Maghery, in Armagh, proved interesting, as in Ireland 

 this species had previously only been known from Meath and 

 West Mayo. 



Tea was served at Maghery at 6 o'clock, and the members 

 remounted the motor and returned to Belfast. 



ROSTREVOR. 



Owing to the unsettled state of affairs due to the war the 

 Committee decided to abandon the excursion arranged for 

 Rostrevor on 5th September, 

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