1915-16] 2Q5 



Report of the Botanical Section. 



There were no special meetings of this Section held during 

 the Winter Session, as Botanical subjects were prominently brought 

 before the members at the usual Club meetings in the very inter- 

 esting lectures given by our President and Professor Yapp. 



During the Summer Session our members were as energetic 

 as usual, and some very good results were recorded. Mr. S. A. 

 Bennett had the good fortune of adding Radiada sylveslris* to the 

 flora of Co. Down. He found it in quantity by the Quoile, near 

 Downpatrick, on 24th July. This plant is very rare in Ulster, the 

 only other station being Bellisle, Co. Fermanagh. On the occasion 

 of the Gawley's Gate excursion (9th June) some very old records 

 for plants believed to be extinct in Antrim were confirmed, notably 

 Rhamnus catharticus and Lathyrus palastris. Sium latifolium 

 was also refound, on 3rd July, at Portmore, by a few members. 

 On 31st July Lobelia Dortmanna was found growing in Lough 

 Neagh, west of Kinnegoe, Co. Armagh — a new station for this 

 plant, now very rare in the Lough Neagh basin. On 17th July 

 Pyrola media was found in full flower on Squire's Hill, Co. Antrim. 



From July till the end of September a small plot of waste 

 ground near Ballymacarrett Halt, Co. Down (where an immense 

 number of casual plants came up and flowered) was under careful 

 observation, and the following 70 species were listed. I am 

 indebted to Miss M. C. Knowles, of the National Museum, and 

 Sir F. W. Moore, Glasnevin, Dublin, for naming the more critical 

 species. 



A??iaranthus a/bus L. 

 A. retroflexus L. 

 Arnsinckia lycopsoidcs Lehm. 

 Artemisia vulgaris L. 

 A. biennis Willd. 

 A. chamamelifolia Vill. 

 Cannabis indica Lam. 

 Carthamns tindorius L. 

 Carduus nutans L. 



Camelina sativa Crantz. 



Centaurea vielitensis L. 



C. solstiiialis L. 



C. Cyamts L. 



Chenopodium polyspernmm L. 



C. rubrum L. 



Cichorium Intybus L. 



Echinospermitm Lappula Lehm. 



Erysimum orioita/t- Mill. 



* Nasturtium sylvestre. 



