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the June greenness of the untouched grasses. The only 

 plants we gathered here were Prmnts Cerasus, Qinanthe fistn- 

 losa, and Ca?-ex 7mu-icata^ all three rare in the count}'. 



Dromoland we reserved for another day. Entering at 

 lyOngough gate we reached the huge old fort, whose outlines, 

 through ruin, restoration and timber can no longer be traced. 

 The ground vegetation is eaten away b}' rabbits, Except 

 Epipaciis latifolia^ little of interest was found until we reached 

 the lower level of the lake, which is one of the \^xy few that 

 have escaped the drainage Here on the further side of the 

 marsh grow Carex pa j-adoxa^ C. filifonuis, C. riparia, C.Pseudo- 

 cype7'us, C. tcretmsaUa, and C strida, surely a notable group 

 of sedges. The only previous Irish records for Cai'ex 

 paiadoxa are from Co. Westmeath. We noticed also Aquilegia 

 vulgarh^ Lysimachia Nnmm2ilaria^Solamim Dulcamara., Lastira 

 Thclypteris^ and several others found here by Mr. W. F. de V. 

 Kane. 



On the shores of I,ough Gash, close to Newmarket, we got 

 ThaHct7'U7n flavum, Rajiuncuhcs Flammula van radicans, 

 A^asturiium amphibiiwi, Rubus ccsmts and Biiens tripartita^ 

 and in the stream Ranunculus trichophyllus and Elodca cana- 

 densis. Matricai'ia Chainoniilla, Inula Hete^iiu/n, SisymbritDn 

 Tliatianuifi, and Convolviilus arve^isis grew by the roadsides, 

 and the cultivated fields were yellow with Brassica alba^ which 

 seems to take the place of Charlock in this locality. 



One other day's driving from Limerick completed our 

 investigations. Our aim was the picturesque castle and 

 Lough Craggaunowen, where Mr. H. Fogerty lately found 

 Aiiodonta cygnea. The bush-crag north of the lake fairly 

 baffled our efforts to penetrate it, and we retired much 

 scratched and torn, with little to console us. Rubus saxatilis 

 and Melampyruni prateiisc, gathered on the crags north of 

 L. Cullaunyheeda, which we stopped to look at on our way 

 home, were all our booty for the day. 



To sum up the results of these tv/o expeditions : — though 

 our list contains 17 plants new to the County (one of which, 

 Carex pajadoxa, is an interesting addition to the flora of the 

 South), four that had only a previous mention from the Aran 

 Islands, and over 50 rare in or new to South Clare, yet we 

 were disappointed in the main object of our search, viz., the 



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