Botanical Notes from Co. TyroneAuthor(s): Thomas GreenSource: The Irish Naturalist, Vol. 24, No. 2 (Feb., 1915), p. 41Published by: Irish Naturalists' Journal Ltd.Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/25524338 .

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IOI5 .Correspondence. 4.1

that, to a great extent, modern nations lack some factor essential to

any civilization worthy of the name. The future will show whether a

fuller devotion to"niaterialistic philosophy or a return to true (not "

extra

vagant . and contemptible ") spiritual ideals will put this essential factor

within our reach. Our. individual convictions with regard to this point must certainly influence our judgment of the motives which rule those

German statesmen and soldiers who have desired and brought about the

present war. Mr. Elliot denies that these men should be classed as ' ' materialists,'' because they profess to follow spiritual impulses. On this

question I may perhaps quote one whom Mr. Elliot will not presumably class among

" lower grade journalists." Professor D. S. Cairns in "An

Answer to Bernhardi "

{Papers for War Time, No. 13, Oxford Uniy. Press) writes :?" All the virtues, on this view [that ther^e is no effective authority

higher than the State], become simply means to national existence; an<l

greatness, to the possession.,01 ice-free harbours and gold-mines, provinces rich in coal and iron, over-sea markets, and so forth. This is plainly

materialism of a very elementary kind. The strange thing is that "the

writer" does not seem to see this, and uses idealistic, religious, and even

Christian language with the most edifying fervour." '

G. H. Carpenter.

NOTES, BOTANY.

Botanical Notes from Co. Tyrone.

In my rambles in search of lepidoptera I have noticed the following

plants, some of which are uncommon, and others are only,recorded from

the .west end of the county:?Thalictrumflavum, in a damp wood off

west shore of Lough Neagh, near Arboe. A quilegia vulgaris, on .lime

stone rocks, near the village of Tullyhogue. Cardamine amara, very abundant along a small river in Tullylagan Demesne, four miles from

Cookstown. Sisymbrium Alliaria, on a gravel ridge, near Arboe Rectory.

Epilobium angustifolium, on rocks in a small stream, .half-a-mile south

of Lough Fea. . Lobelia Dortmanna, abundant at the south end of Lough Fea. Vaccinium Oxycoccus, in a bog on the .west side of Lough Fea, at

about 8.oa feet,. *

Lysimachia Nummularia, in a damp meadow in Killy moon Demesne, beside the Ballinderry River. * Mimulus guttatus, naturalised along the Lissan River, also grows on damp gravel on the

edge of .carriage drive in Lissan demesne. , Pinguicula lusitanica, frequent

on the bogs around Lough Fea. Orchis pyramidalis, on the. lawn in front

of Killycolp House, near Cookstown. Scirpus sylvaticus, on the bank of a

mill-race.in Tullylagan.demesne. Osmunda regalis, five clumps of this

fern in a wet wood on Lough Neagh. Equisetum hyemale, very abundant

in Tullylagan demesne on moist banks, and in a wet wood; Lycopodium clavatunii growing -in the middle of a plantation on red sandy soil, in

Lissan demesne, a curious station for this generally mountain plant.

Curylasson, Stewartstown. Thomas Green.

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