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to Ballymote, and I turned my steps towards where Keishcorran 

 (1,163 feet) towered over the plain. Limestone cliffs on the 

 ascent yielded Cornus sanguinea, unrecorded from District IX. 

 Nearer the summit were Asplcnium viride and Cystopteris 

 fragitis, and on the crowning earn grew Draba i?icana, 

 Geum vivale, and Saxifraga hypnoides. Most of these were 

 seen on Keishcorran by F. J. Foot some forty years ago. 

 I pushed on over the most interesting mountain of Carrowkee 

 (1,062 feet), intersected as it is with huge parallel cliff-walled 

 ravines, and every eminence crowned with a chambered earn. 

 Here most of the above-named plants turned up again. 

 Thence down steeply to Lough Arrow, which lay spread like 

 a map below ; but its western shores yielded little, and I 

 crossed the boggy Curlew Mountains and descended into 

 Boyle with its rushing river and beautiful abbey. A long day 

 was next spent round Lough Arrow, with no startling results. 

 Carex curia was added to the flora of District IX. Lough 

 Arrow is a lovely lake, with exquisite surroundings and water 

 of wonderful clearness. Finally I tramped down the western 

 side of Lough Gara, a desolate sheet of water, bordered with 

 poor arable land and with vast bogs, where Ca? r ex limosa and 

 Cranberries grew. Galium borealc was the only interesting 

 lake-side plant. The lake is curiously shallow, though ex- 

 tensive, and the water impure. Crossing a little corner of 

 B- Mayo, a very primitive ferry took me over the Lung 

 River into Roscommon, where a deserted road led across a 

 vast bog — a green line through the brown wilderness, with a 

 rank luxuriant fringe of Carex teretiuscula filling the drain on 

 each side. I found shelter that night under the hospitable 

 roof of Dr. Douglas Hyde, and next day worked back along 

 the eastern or Roscommon shore to Boyle. 



On July 18-19 I worked at my Kildare list, the district 

 visited being the neighbourhood of Kildare itself— not an 

 inviting country, yet it proved distinctly interesting. Walking 

 southward from Kildare I entered a region of flat swampy 

 ground, with a peculiar flora. Orchids were present in 

 enormous profusion — sheets of Habc?iaria co?wpsea and Orchis 

 macutaia, filling the air with their perfume, and less abundantly 

 O. incamata, O. pyra?nidalis, H. bifolia, H. viridis, and Epipactis 



