PARISH OF TEMPLEMORE. 
Botany.' —The natural vegetation throughout the parish is variable, and presents no pecu¬ 
liarly marked features, excepting the marine vegetation along the side of the river Foyle, where, 
on the muddy shore from Culmore Point to Derry, the more common plants are Eleocharispalu~ 
iris, Creeping Spike Rush; Juncus compressus (var. / 3,)— the J.ccenosus o/Biciieno —Round- 
fruited Rush ; Glaux maritima, Sea Milkwort; Statice Armeria, Common Thrift, or Sea Gil- 
liflower; Cochlearia officinalis, Common Scurvy Grass; C. Anglica, English Scurvy Grass; 
and Zostera marina, Common Grass Wrack. Near the bridge of Derry, where the last plant 
becomes scarce, large patches of Scirpus maritimus, or Salt Marsh Club Rush occur, which, with 
the others, spreads to the extremity of the county. Along the dry banks in Termonbacca the 
Lithospermum officinale, or Common Gromwell (which is not general in this county), is very 
abundant, together with a flesh-coloured variety of the Convolvulus sepium, or Common Bindweed 
—a variety of that genus, which does not seem to have been hitherto noticed in Britain, and only 
in one place in Ireland, viz. the Island of Baffin (Inishbofin), in the county of Galway. 
In some of the glens near the county boundary, and by the side of the Foyle near Culmore, a 
few stunted natural hazels occur,—but, in general, the interior is bare and uninteresting. 
The old walls of Derry are in many places literally covered with the common Parietaria 
officinalis, or Pellitory of the Wall; the Acer Pseudo-plat anus, or Common Plane Tree, also 
grows naturally on them. 
This parish possesses no plants peculiar to it, nor even any which can be considered very rare, 
although the Rubus rhamnifolius, and Rubus Kochleri, have hitherto been so considered. Those 
most worthy of notice are the following :— 
MONOCOTYLEDONOUS. 
1. Alisma Ranunculoides, Lesser Water Plaintain. 
Habitat. Abundant in boggy ground beside the Foyle. 
2. Sparganium simplex, Unbranched Bur-reed. 
3. S. natans, Floating Bur-reed. 
Hab. Both in Ballyarnet Lough. 
4. Blysmus rufus; Link — Schcenus rufus; Eng. Bot _Narrow-leaved Blysmus. 
Hab. Side of the Foyle, near Brook Hall. 
5. Rynchospora alba ; Vaiil. White Beak Rush. 
Hab. Bog at Culmore Point. 
6. Iris fcetidissima, Stinking Iris, or Roast Beef Plant. 
Hab. Banks at Culmore Point. 
DICOTYLEDONOUS. 
7. Circcea lutetiana, Common Enchanter’s Nightshade. 
Hab. Bushy places beside the Foyle. 
8. Utricularia vulgaris, Greater Bladderwort. 
9. U. minor, Lesser Bladderwort. 
Hab. Abundant in holes on the Race-course Bog. 
10. Pinguicula vulgaris, Common Butterwort. 
Hab. Moist banks on the side of the Foyle. 
11. Erythrcea Centaurium, Common Centaury. 
Hab. Side of the Foyle. 
12. Samolus Valerandi, Brookweed, or Water Pimpernel. 
Hab. Side of the Foyle. 
13. Drosera rotundifolia, Round-leaved Sundew. 
14. D. longifolia, Long-leaved do. 
15. D. Anglica, great do. 
Hab. All three in the bog at Culmore. 
16. Solanum Dulcamara, Woody Nightshade. 
Hab. Walls of Derry. 
17. CEnantlie crocata, Hemlock Water Dropwort. 
Hab. Side of the Foyle : abundant from Culmore to Pennyburn, 
18. Slum latifolium, Broad-leaved Water Parsnip. 
Hab. Marsh near Culmore Point. 
