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The Irish Naturalist. 



October, 



National Herbarium which determines the station — Carn- 

 lough Glen, right bank just below waterfall." This is a 

 well-known spot. There is a contradiction in Adams' 

 notes, since the wet slippery rocks on the right bank just 

 below the fall are basalt, the chalk forming dry slopes 

 further down the stream. In the definite spot quoted no 

 trace of the grass was seen, nor in the neighbourhood, 

 though we ranged pretty widely over both chalk and basalt. 

 We hope that others will search for it. Among the plants 

 which were seen below the waterfall may be mentioned 

 Festuca sylvatica, Neottia Nidus-avis, Melampyrum sylvaii- 

 cum, Circaea alpina, Geum intermedium. Ulnms montana, 

 growing on rocks here and also in a small glen a mile north 

 of Carnlough, I consider a native. It does not occur on 

 the low grounds adjoining, and the habitat corresponds to 

 undoubtedly native habitats in other parts of Ireland. 



Our best plant of the glens was Pyrola secimda, which 

 we found growing luxuriantly on the south bank (and very 

 sparingly on the north bank) in a gorge on the Cranny Burn 

 a little above the point where it is joined by the Pollan 

 Burn. Here, sheltered by a Birch and a Mountain Ash, it 

 was flowering abundantly. On Garron Point, where the 

 stream from Lough Galboly (=Loughvicannon) makes a 

 great gash in the basaltic wall, we got Galium sylvestre, 

 lately added to the flora of the North-east, and also a bush 

 of Pyrus Aria, believed extinct in Antrim till refound in 

 profusion by the Belfast Naturalists' Field Club at the 

 Little Deerpark near Glenarm, where it had been seen long 

 before by Templet on. The Bird-Cherry, Prunus Padus, 

 was seen by the Cranny and Pollan Burns. Hahenaria 

 conopsea was remarkably abundant at Skerry old church 

 near Broughshane. Stachys sylvatica X paliistris (nearer 

 the latter) occurred a mile north of Carnlough. 



Skerrywherry. 



We visited this rocky hill and saw the two rare plants 

 recorded from it by C. J. Lilly — Vicia Orohiis and Arcto- 

 staphylos Uva-ursi, but failed to find more of the latter than 

 the single clump seen by the discoverer, and since refound 



