1916-17.) 2 g, 



lubrica, Pupa ang/ica, P. cy/indracea, Sphyradium edentulum, and 

 Carychium minimum. 



As it is impossible to imagine that any of these shade-loving 

 snails could possibly have been brought to these isolated cliffs by 

 any chance means of dispersal, one is forced to the conclusion that 

 they have inhabited such places from a period before the growth of 

 the present surrounding peat bog, which offers such an extreme 

 barrier to the spread of most of our mollusks. On this day the 

 only species seen on the bog was the great black slug, Arion ater, 

 which occurred in hundreds even in the most spongy areas. 



The district, as was expected, proved poor collecting 

 ground for Invertebrates in other groups, and none were taken 

 except common species. The botanists of the party spent a most 

 interesting time at The Craigs. The rocky, basaltic escarp- 

 ments, the peat bogs, and the heather moorland afforded suitable 

 habitats for some interesting plants, and notwithstanding the rather 

 unfavourable nature of the weather for tramping over the moorland 

 a few good finds were made. One rare orchid, Habenaria albida, 

 was found profusely in the drier parts of the moorland. Closely 

 associated with it was one of the Winter-greens, Pyrola media. 

 These two rare plants have not been recorded from this district 

 before. A fine colony of Carduus pratensis was seen in a boggy 

 meadow. Among other notable species observed on and about 

 The Craigs were Antennaria dioica, Viburnum Opu/us, Asperula 

 odorata, Anchusa sempervirens and Listera cordata. The commoner 

 of our two local species of the butterfly orchis was Habenaria 

 bifolia. This fact is quite contrary to the Club's general experience, 

 the common species being as a rule H. chlorantha. Others of the 

 botanists spent the day around Lough Naroon, where Carex 

 canescens, C. /imosa, and Vaccinium Oxy coccus, as well as many 

 other interesting bog plants were seen. 



The party returned from Ballymoney by the 7-10 train, arriving 

 in Belfast at 8-50. 



