1894 - 95 -] 
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plants, collected by Mr. Richard Hanna in 1893 and 1894 in waste ground 
adjoining the Belfast Distillery, and near Hughes’ Flour Mill, will convey an 
idea of the number of aliens that are now-a-days showered down on our country : 
Ranunculus muricatus. 
T. latipaceum. 
Sisymbrium repandum. 
Trigonella coerulea ? 
S. pannonicum. 
Lonicera caprifolium. 
S. columnoe. 
Valerianella dentata. 
S. sophia. 
Anthemis cotula. 
S. thalianum. 
Hemizonia sp. 
Lepidium draba. 
Serratula tinctoria. 
L. campestre. 
Centaurea solstitialis. 
L. perfoliatum. 
Carduus crispus. 
Camelina sativa. 
Solarium nigrum. 
Reseda lutea. 
Echium vulgare. 
R. suffruticulosa. 
AmsincTcia lycopsoides. 
Saponaria baccaria. 
Salvia vcrticillata. 
Silene inflata. 
Stachys annua. 
S. dichotoma. 
Marrubium vulgare. 
Lychnis vespertina. 
Rlantago arenaria. 
Geranium phceum. 
Rumex palustris. 
G. pratense. 
Hemerocallis flava. 
Melilotus arvensis. 
Setaria viridis. 
M. parviflora. 
AZgilops ovata ? 
Medicago denticulata. 
IE. caudata. 
M. falcata ? 
Echinochloa crus-galli. 
Trifolium arvense. 
T. resupinatum. 
Bromus tectorum. 
The plants were introduced with foreign grain, Australian, Indian, Russian, 
and American. A smaller group found by Mrs White- Spunner at Grreenisland, 
whither they came with food for fowls, is given by R. LI. P. in Irish Naturalist 
for 1893. 
Sisymbrium sophia. 
Thlaspi arvense. 
Erysimum orientale. 
Lychnis vespertina. 
Linum perenne. 
Melitotus alba. 
Cichorium intybus. 
Hyoscyamus nigcr. 
Linaria sp. 
Galeopsis speciosa. 
Other similar lists might be quoted, but the above will serve as examples. 
During the interval since the publication of the Flora much has been done to 
extend our knowledge of the Musci and Hepaticce of the district. The workers, 
indeed, have been few, our notes being derived mainly from Rev. H. W. Lett 
and Rev. G. H. Waddell, to whose zeal and powers of observation we are 
indebted for by far the larger portion of the information summarised in the 
following pages. 
In 1888 the number of species of mosses known to grow in north-east Ireland 
