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October, 



relief from the soaking peat ; on such scarps at Craigs, on 

 the western edge of the area, Pyrola media and Hahenaria 

 alhida grew, and several Hawkweeds. The best known 

 scarp is that which starts quarter mile S.S.W. of L. Naroon ; 

 here grow Pyrola media, P. fninor, Vaccinium Vitis-Idoca, 

 Epilohium angiisti folium ; a parallel scarp a little to the 

 eastward yielded to our delight an abundance of Arcto- 

 staphylos Uva-ursi, of which the two clumps mentioned on 

 a previous page were all that were known to occur at 

 present in the county. Hahenaria alhida was there also. 



Sluggan Bog. 



An extensive area of low-level bog still unspoiled by 

 turf-cutting lies a couple of miles N.N.E. of Randalstown. 

 At the point marked on the O.S. map 163 feet above datum, 

 a knoll now crowned by a small plantation, Vaccinium 

 Vitis-Idoea grows in great abundance, no doubt the station 

 already reported to us by R. Bell. The central parts of 

 the bog are drained by a very wet depression running 

 northward. Here Lastrea spimilosa (not previously recorded 

 from Co. Antrim) is remarkably abundant with Vaccinium 

 Oxycoccos, Carex limosa, &c. Here, as at Dunlo}-, we failed 

 to refind Drosera ohovata. 



River Main. 



We visited Slaght Bridge below Bally mena, whence 

 Carex aquatilis var. elatior is recorded by Miss Knowles, 

 and found it in great abundance on both banks below the 

 bridge for as far (half mile) as we went, and growing. six 

 feet high. On our way home, on the edge of the railway, 

 east side, in a cutting due east of Killybegs (two and a half 

 miles S.S.W. of Bally mena) Equisetum litorale was found 

 for the third time in Ireland, the second station being 

 one as yet unpublished from (^o. Kilkcniny. The plant 

 was of the same form (var. clatius Milde) as that from 

 Co. Down, already fully described in this Journal (xxvi., 

 p. 141, 1917). A little to the north Lastrea spinulosa grew 

 on boggy banks. Having seen a tall sedge from the train 



