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at Glarryford we motored there one wet evening, and found 

 C. aquatilis in profusion along the River Main, fruiting on 

 the river banks, but becoming stunted and barren, though 

 abundant, to the northward, where it left the river alluvium 

 and colonized wet peaty ditches and pools. Plantago 

 marilifiia was noted by a lane-side across an esker close to 

 and west of the railway three-quarter mile north of Glarryford 

 Station. 



Lough Neagii. 



We visited I>ough Ncagh twice — once the Portmore and 

 Selshan area, and once Harbour Island — in the hope of 

 finding some of the missing plants, such as Lastrea Thelyp- 

 teris, Car ex fusca {=Buxbaumii), C. elongata, C. filiformis — 

 all of which were found there by D. Moore, and the 

 second alone (which has here its only Irish station) seen 

 by any subsequent botanist. We were as unsuccessful 

 as the many searchers who have preceded us. Although 

 evidence on the ground points to a lowering of the lake by 

 something nearer two feet than the ten feet which has been 

 sometimes quoted, there can be little doubt that this change 

 of level is mainly responsible for the loss of the plants in 

 their old stations, though it seems probable that they 

 survive somewhere along the wide and varied shores of 

 I.ough Neagh. Still the amount of the loss is remarkable. 

 Take the case of Selshan. Here the old level of the lake 

 at Selshan Harbour shows clearly, some two feet above 

 present level, its outline corresponding to that shown on 

 the pre-drainage six-inch O.S. map of 1832. At and about 

 this spot grew Suhularia aquatica, Lathyrus pahistris, Slum 

 latifolium, Lobelia Dortmanna, Typha angitstifolia, Cladium 

 Mariscus, Carex elongata, C. filiformis, Lastrea Thelypteris, 

 Isoetes laciistris, Pilularia glohulifera. Of these, the Marsh 

 Vetchling alone has rewarded the many recent searchers ; 

 with it we saw Carex acuta, recorded by D. Moore, and 

 C. riparia, not noted there by the older botanists ; drainage 

 and subsequent grazing have done away with all the others. 



We found some local plants in this area, but the only 

 one not noted by recent observers was Chaerophyllum 

 temuhmi, in bushes at the Hog Park. 



