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plant of the low limestone crags and lake-shores, but which 



I have not seen before on inland non-calcareous nun-alpine 

 rocks. B}' Lough Derg we had the luck to hit off Inula 

 salichia in full flower. At Portumna, on the Tipperary side 

 of the bridge, Inula Helenhwi (new to division 10) was 

 established, and Eleocharis acicularis was seen in Mackay's 

 old station (1806). At Limerick we got good j^hotographs of 

 Scripus triqueter, growing in abundance, with Nasturtium 

 sylvestre and Potamogeto7i dens^is, on the tidal foreshore of the 

 Shannon, w^here it is half or wholl}^ submerged at each tide. 

 Typha angtistifoiia grows likewise on the tidal foreshore a little 

 below Limerick Docks, with Scripus mar itimus, erv. — a plant 

 hitherto unrecorded from Limerick, and for which I know of 

 no other station in tidal waters, unless the former Dublin ones 

 were such. The plant is extremely robust here, bearing leaves 



II feet in length, and Mr. R. D. O'Brien suggests that it ma}* 

 be the North American form T. elatior. 



Dr. George Fogerty, Mr. O'Brien, and I went to Foynes, and 

 rowed up to Trummera Big, where the former photographed 

 Glyceria festuccBformis for me. Then he and I went via 

 Tarbert and Kilrush to Kilkee, where a few days were spent 

 examining the country from Doonbeg and Monmor down to 

 Loop Head. 



SOUTH-WKST Cl,ARK. 



This is a little- known region. As long a^^'o as 1845, it was 

 visited by Charles Carter,^ who records from it, among other 

 plants, Eriocaulon septangulare and Elatine hexaiidra. The 

 latter was found in this area by Dr. Moore also some years 

 subsequently, but neither has been since reported from Clare. 

 We had the good fortune to refind both in the neighbourhood 

 of Monmor bog, in spite of the great alterations to which the 

 surface has been subject owing to half a century of turf- 

 cutting. Mr. P. B. O'Kelly has since given me a second 

 station for the Pipewort in this neighbourhood. Other plants 

 found at Monmor included Isoetes echinospora (previously 

 known in Ireland only from Kerry, and from one station each 

 in Galwa}^ and Mayo), Scutellaria viinor^ Vaccinium Oxycoccus, 

 Rhynchospora fusca. Drosera intermedia was unusually 

 abundant, Carcx limosa and C. filijonnis frequent. Silene 



^ Botanical Ramble iu Irelaud Phytologist^ ii... pp. 512-14, 1856. 



