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plants, collected by Mr. Richard Hanna in 1893 and 1894 in waste ground 

 adjoining the Belfast Distillery, and near Hughes' Flour Mill, will convey an 

 idea of the number of aliens that are now-a-days showered down on our country : 



Ranunculus muricatus. 

 Sisymbrium repandum. 

 S. pannonicum. 

 S. columnce. 

 S. sophia. 

 S. thalianum. 

 Lepidium draba. 

 L. campestre. 

 L. perfoliatum. 

 Camelina sativa. 

 Reseda lutea. 

 R. suffruticulosa. 

 Saponaria baccaria. 

 Silene infiata. 

 S. dichotoma. 

 lychnis vei>pertina. 

 Geranium phceum. 

 Q. pratense. 

 Melilotus arvensis. 

 M. parviflora. 

 Medicago denticulata. 

 M. falcata ? 

 Trifolium arvense. 

 T. resupinalum. 



T. latipaceum. 

 Trigonella ccerulea ? 

 Lonicera caprifolium. 

 Valerianella dentata. 

 Anthemis cotula. 

 Semizonia sp. 

 Serratula tinctoria. 

 Centaurea solstitialis. 

 Carduus crispus. 

 Solatium nigrum. 

 Echium vulgare. 

 Amsinckia lycopsoides. 

 Salvia verticillata. 

 Stachys annua. 

 Marrubium vulgare. 

 Plantago arenaria. 

 Rumex palustris. 

 Hemerocallis flava. 

 Setaria viridis. 

 JEgilops ovata ? 

 jE. caudata. 

 Echinochloa crus-galli. 

 Bromus tectorum. 



The plants were introduced with foreign grain, Australian, Indian, Russian, 

 and American. A smaller group found by Mrs White- Spunner at Greenisland, 

 whither they came with food for fowls, is given by R. LI. P. in Irish Naturalist 

 for 1893. 



Sisymbrium sophia. Melitotus alba. 



Thlaspi arvense. Cichorium intybus. 



Erysimum orientale. Hyoscyamus niger. 



Lychnis vesper Una. Linaria sp. 



Linum perenne. Galeopsis speciosa. 



Other similar lists might be quoted, but the above will serve as examples . 



During the interval since the publication of the Flora much has been done to 

 extend our knowledge of the Musci and Hepaticce of the district. The workers, 

 indeed, have been few, our notes being derived mainly from Rev. H. W. Lett 

 and Rev. C. H. Waddell, to whose zeal and powers of observation we are 

 indebted for by far the larger portion of the information summarised in the 

 following pages. 



In 1888 the number of species of mosses known to grow in north-east Ireland 



