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PRAHGER. — Notes on Antrim Plants. 



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Of other plants of the Garron bogs and lakelets the 

 following may be mentioned : — Lobelia Dortmanna, abundant 

 in the lakelet quarter mile W. of Lough Fine ; its rarity 

 in the upland tarns of Antrim is remarkable. Sparganium 

 nutans — with the last, and in Loughnafanogy half mile E. 

 of Parkmore. Vacciniurn Oxycoccos and Car ex limosa are 

 two of the most characteristic plants of the wet bogs, and 

 occur frequently over the whole area, sometimes in great 

 profusion. 



Garron Plateau— Rocks, and Knolls. 



Low scarps and rocky knolls occur occasionall}^ on 

 which some good plants were obtained. Vacciniurn Vitis- 

 Idoea was seen at summit of Colin Top, sparingly, and by 

 the stream a mile S.W. of Cleggan Lough, which lies nine 

 miles N.E. of Balh^mena. A single plant of Juniper us nana 

 grows at the cairn half a mile W. of Craigatinnel. Of the 

 Parsley Fern, Cryptogramme crispa, very rare in the county, 

 we were pleased to find one clump on the north face of 

 Big Trosk, and another on the south-east face — elevation 

 1,100-1,150 feet. Within a short distance of both clumps 

 the Beech Fern, Polypodium Phegopteris, grew sparingly in 

 rock chinks, and was also seen on the N.E. slope of Little 

 Trosk — in all cases only about two inches high. Lycopodium 

 alpinumis very abundant all about Little Trosk, 1,000-1,260 

 feet, and was also seen with L. clavatum in abundance 

 about Ess Dhu, 850—900 feet, w^here the Inver River enters 

 the Glenariff gorge — a station found b}^ Stelfox when lost 

 in fog some years ago. 



Glens and Scarps around Garron Plateau. 



Our main objective here was the Wood Barley, Hordeum 

 sylvaticiim, in its only and unverified Ulster station. Mr. 

 Adams' record as published is vague — in " one of the glens " 

 at Carnlough, " on wet slippery rocks overhanging the 

 river ; " " the place where I found it agrees with the habitat 

 as given by Hooker, namely copses and woods in chalky 

 soil." Fortunately a specimen given by Adams is in the 



