38 The Irish Naturalists Februar}-, 



steamboat quay, and thence occasionalh^ to Cordroon, be3'ond 

 Ballymacgibbon Ba}', where these rocks reach their eastern 

 limit. I see by reference to the six-inch map that this range 

 constitutes merely an expansion of Miss Jackson's Cybele 

 station, " between Lislouglny and I^ackafinna." Potentilla 

 fruiicosa was found on the shore opposite the wooded Island 

 Morris at Castletown. This is near, but apparently not 

 identical with, Miss Jackson's station in '' Cybele," and may 

 be Moore's old station. The two Scutellarias and the two 

 Buckthorns erew on the shore a little to the north. Ranun- 

 cvlus scotiais was seen by the lake nearer to Cong. At Cong 

 itself Enphro.sia Salisburgcnsis grows on the rocks right up 

 to the houses of the village, and a fruit-stem of Neotinca intacta 

 was seen a short distance to the north-west. 



Pushing on to Maam that evening (where Potamogdon 

 Kirkii was still in its old station), I crossed the Maam Turk 

 ridge next morning to Recess. On the wa}' up to Corco Gap 

 a thick bed of primitive limestone — a grey cr3'stalline rock 

 like coarse sugar — crops out at intervals for half a mile, beau- 

 tifull}" carved and fluted in places by the weather, and 

 producing by solution strange cavernous recesses. Asplcimim 

 Rnta-muraiia is the sole floral indication of the nature of the 

 rock, and it was interesting to find members of the prevailing 

 calcifuge flora — Saxifraga nmhrosa, Athyriinn Filix-fcsmina, 

 Blcchnum Spicant — growing in dr}^ soil-less crevices of the 

 limestone. I followed the mountain-ridge for a couple of 

 miles, including the loftiest peak of Maam Turk (2,307 feet); 

 but the higher grounds of these hills are bare and desolate 

 in the extreme, as long ago described b}' Mr. Hart.^ 



Thence to Recess, where I joined Mr. Welch on a photo- 

 graphic raid on the rare western plants. At Roundstone, our 

 first halt, three fruiting stems oi Neotinca intacta^ found by the 

 roadside where the Dog's Ba}^ lane turns off, strengthened the 

 position of that rare plant in this district ; Sagina S7ibulata 

 grew hard by. 



Near Woodford, our next stop, Plantago 7naritima\\2iS seen 

 covering the old road where it crosses the Old Red Sand- 

 stone ridge (560 feet) north of the village — a characteristic 



"* Report ou the Flora of the Mountains of INIayo and Gahvay. Piot, 

 R.I.A. (2), Science, iii., 694-768. i<S83. 



