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since 1886 the Conferences have been placed on a par with all 

 the sections, in having the power to send forward, direct to the 

 Council, any resolutions or recommendations they consider 

 desirable. 



Mr. R. Lloyd Praeger, B.E., M.R.I.A., delivered a 



Lecture on 



BOTANICAL RAMBLES IN COUNTY ARMAGH. 



The County of Armagh, he stated, constituted part of the tenth 

 botanical district of Ireland, which district had not received by 

 any means a large amount of attention from Irish botanists. In 

 view of the approaching publication of a new edition of ''Cybele 

 Hibernica," the standard work on the flora of Ireland, further 

 information respecting the plants of district 10 was desirable, 

 and with the view of supplying this information, the lecturer 

 had spent three weeks during the past season in investigation 

 of the flora of County Armagh, the most easterly of the five 

 counties included in the tenth district. The geological and 

 physical features of the county were first described, with the aid 

 of a large coloured map, and it was pointed out that County 

 Armagh presents a variety of surface, including extensive bogs, 

 lakes, and rivers, and tolerably high mountains, and also varied 

 geological formations, embracing Tertiary clays and basalts, 

 Triassic sandstones. Carboniferous limestone, Ordovician rocks, 

 and ancient granites and basalts. Mr. Praeger's first explora- 

 tions were made in North Armagh, where lies the great expanse 

 of Lough Neagh, fringed with miles of peat bogs. The waters 

 of the lough and of the rivers and canals which connect with it 

 yield in abundance a group of plants, most of them of great 

 beauty, that were not found in any other portion of the county — 

 Cicuta virosa^ CEnanihe Jistulosa, Butomus umbellatus, Sagit- 

 taria sagittifolia. In the waters of the lough several much 

 rarer plants were obtained, of which Ranunculus circinatus had 

 not been previously found in Ulster, and Potamogeion filiformis 



