92 The Irish Naturalist. ' [April, 



limit of its range, was noted, and Carex paludosa, with many 

 commoner plants ; Valerianella Aiiriada grew in cultivated 

 land hard by. By the River Dee at Kearney's Cross a group 

 of marsh plants included Stcllaria palust?is, GEnanthe fislulosa, 

 and Lysimachia vulgaris. Ardee was reached late in the 

 evening. Ardee Bog, visited next day, used to be very 

 extensive, but much of it is now cut away. An arm of it 

 extends into Meath, and here Cladium turned up. On the 

 L,outh side grew Carex teretiusaila, rare in east Ireland, and in 

 the numerous drains P. coloratus, Myriophyllum verticillatum, 

 CE?ia?ithe fishdosa, and quantities of the Frog-bit in full 

 flower. Louth is essentially the head-quarters of that plant 

 in Ireland. A patch of limestone close to Ardee betrayed its 

 presence by Ccntaiwea Scabiosa and Orchis pyramidalis, the 

 former here reaching its northern limit in Ireland. 



August i saw me tramping southward from Maryborough 

 towards Culleuagh, the highest (1,045 feet) of the hills of 

 southern Queen's County. Eleocharis achularis and Drosera 

 intermedia turned up on the way, the latter an addition to the 

 flora of District III. A wooded glen on the northern slope 

 yielded Festuca sylvatica, another addition to the flora, and the 

 only plant of interest on the hill. I descended into the quaint 

 village of Timahoe, with its esker- ridges and round tower, and 

 north of it found Cynoglossum in a gravel-pit — a plant w 7 hich 

 very seldom appears inland in Ireland. Stradbally furnished 

 me with excellent quarters for the night. Next morning I 

 worked north-east, struck the Barrow canal near Ballymanus, 

 and followed it northward. Near Grattan aqueduct Carex 

 CEderi and Potamogcton de?isus grew, the former a new record 

 for III. The weather was stiflingly hot, and at Monasterevan 

 the temptation to botanize in the clear waters of the canal 

 was irresistible. Thence I followed the canal westward 

 towards Portarlington, getting the usual bog and canal flora 

 of the Central Plain. A detour was made to the G. S. W. R. 

 line to gather a Hawkweed-like plant that I had observed on 

 more than one occasion growing in abundance on the banks 

 and cuttings, and it was a surprise to discover that this was 

 Picris hieracioides, a plant not seen in Ireland for many years, 

 and hitherto occurring only as a casual.. It grows in profusion 

 here for a distance of two miles along the railway. 



