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The Irish Naturalist, 



October, 



and spreading, like a pennon, and longer than the top of 

 the stem. The root-leaves are comparatively short, and 

 are broad and flat, forming a loose rosette rather like that 

 of C. flava, but of a less vivid green. On pulling up the 

 plant, the roots are seen to be fairly stout, and orange in 

 colour, quite unlike the fine peat-encrusted root-system of 



C. limosa. 



Carex filiformis L. — It was a surprise to us to find this 

 sedge, which in Ireland as elsewhere is distinctly lowland, 

 forming a quite striking feature of the plateau vegetation. 

 Mostly it grew in very wet bogs with C. pauciflora, &c., 

 often covering many acres of ground : in such situations it 

 was uniformly barren. But in the floating felt of lake- 

 margins, and where it grew in open water, it was fruiting 

 abundantly. The line Parkmore — Loughnacally — Lough a- 

 trosk — Loughgarve— Parkmore defines its area as seen by 

 us, save that vStelfox also got it on the site of the now 

 fiUed-up Cleggan Lough three miles further to the S.W. 

 It was noted in over a dozen separate stations. Thus, at 

 Loughisland it forms a dense grassy growth over the silted- 

 up western end. At Lough Fine and Loughascraban it 

 grows in the water, spreading more thinly and fruiting 

 abundantly. A mile N.W. of Big Trosk it forms a grassy 

 meadow along a wet line of bog, a quarter of a mile in 

 length, and a couple of hundred yards in breadth. This 

 plant, which had been repeatedly searched for in vain in 

 its only recorded Antrim station (Selshan on L. Neagh, 



D. Moore, fifty feet elevation) is thus uncxpectedl}^ restored 

 to its place in the county flora. 



Saxifraga Hir cuius L. — The original Garrqn station for 

 ihis plant lies on the west bank of the stream just above 

 its last forking three-eighth mile nearly due east of Crock- 

 navar. We visited the station where Stelfox and Wear 

 found it in 1916 : this is not the same as the first. It lies 

 half way between the other and the top of Crocknavar, 

 and is a mossed-over spring on the hill-side ; the other was 

 very wet bog on the flat. W'e found it sparingly in a third 

 statioi) — ^with C. pauciflora and C filiformis, three-quarter 

 mile N.N.E. of Colin Top, in very wet bog between the 

 scarp and the stream flowing N.E. into the Inver River. 



