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The Irish Naturalist. 



October, 



Apart from general exploration, our especial task here 

 lay in attemping to determine the range and frequency of 

 two highland sedges which were discovered in recent years, 

 and are unknown elsewhere in Ireland — C. panciflora and 

 C. irrigua ; and we succeeded in gleaning information 

 regarding them. We were less successful in efforts to verify 

 some older records from the Lough Neagh shores, particularly 

 those relating to three other sedges, C. Buxhaumii, C. 

 elongata, and C. filiformis — ^the first being also a single- 

 station pkmt so far as Ireland is concerned ; but to our 

 surprise the last-named, a lowland plant with its only 

 known Antrim station at Lough Neagh, proved to be 

 abundant on the Garron Plateau amid a flora of quite 

 highland facies. 



As the areas explored are mostly separated from each 

 other and of different types, it will be convenient to treat 

 of them severally. 



Garron Plateau — BoCxS. 



Carex irrigua Sm. — The original locality is not clearly 

 defined (see /. A^, x., 165, igoi). It was reached by 

 " striking south across the wet bogs " from Parkmore 

 railway-station for half-an-hour, and three stations were 

 found, ranging from 900 to 1,100 feet above sea level. 

 They may be presumed to lie between Evish Hill and Evish 

 Lough on the east, and the railway on the west. The plant 

 is described as abundant there. W. J. C. Tomhnson, who 

 refound the plant a few years ago, places his station more 

 to the northward, south of Loughnafanogy, half a mile almost 

 due east of Parkmore. We crossed all this ground, but did 

 not see the plant till we reached a point five-eighth mile 

 E.N.E. of Evish Lough, about a mile from either station, 

 where it grew rather sparingly in a broad drain 200 yards 

 N.E. of where it crosses the streamlet from Evish Lough 

 direction. Subsequently we found it in abundance on the 

 south-west side of Lough Garve a mile to the S.E., and 

 again more sparingly in rank vegetation in wet bog quarter 

 mile S.E. of Cranny Lough, two miles furtlier to the E.S.E. 

 It was not seen furtlier to the N.E., where is the head- 

 quarters of the highland bog-fiora, between Carnlough and 



