November, 1914. The Irish Naturalist, 
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SAXIFRAGA HIRCULUS IN ANTRIM. 
BY A. W. STELFOX AND S. WEAR. 
On 6th July last we visited Mr. Praeger's station on the 
plateau above Glenariff, Co. Antrim, for this rare plant 
which, though searched for several times, has not been seen 
here by local botanists since 1886. The habitat Hes at an 
altitude of about 1,100 feet, between Crocknavar and Big 
Trosk, a little to the west of the Inver River. Here Mr. 
Praeger found the plant in July, 1885, and again visited the 
place in July, 1886. Upon the occasion of our visit it was 
not yet in flower, but thanks to Mr. Praeger's directions we 
had no difficulty in finding the plant. The habitat is an 
almost flat spongy bog of about twenty yards in diameter, 
surrounded by wide, imdulating moorland, in which Calluna 
is dominant. The spot has the appearance of having been 
a small pool, but is now filled with vegetation, so that one 
may walk all over its surface. The centre fifteen yards 
is brown with Hypnum revolvens,^ which must comprise 
seventy-five or eighty per cent of the total vegetation in 
the centre of the marsh. Outside the area occupied by this 
moss no specimens of Saxifraga Hir cuius were seen by us. 
The following notes on the plants associated with the 
Saxifraga may not be out of place : — 
List of plants found in marsh within the area 
OCCUPIED BY Saxifraga Hirculus. 
Dominant. 
Hypnum revolvens. 
Locally or sub -dominant. 
Prunella vulgaris. /uncus acutiflorus. 
Menyanthes trifoliata. Car ex glauca. 
with 
Ranunculus Flammula,iYequent. Bellis perennis, abundant. 
Cardamine pratensis, frequent. Scirpus setaceus, frequent. 
1 a specimen of this moss was identified by the Rev. C. H. 
Waddell, M.R.I. A. 
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