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dry banks, and Calamintha officinalis on a limestone bluff. 

 Next day I went through oak woods down the lovely Nore 

 valley to below Inistioge, and then across an upland slate 

 country to the granite mass of Brandon (1,694 feet), the highest 

 hill in Kilkenny. On the ascent Hypericum elodes, Jasione, 

 Scutellaria minor, Eleocharis nmlticaulis, Osnnmda, were noted, 

 and higher up Ranunculus Lenormandi, new to District III. 

 The summit yielded nothing of interest — except a view of wide 

 and varied beauty — and I descended to Graiguenamanagh. 

 Recrossing the range of hills to Thomastown, Afyosotis repcns 

 (new to III.), Lastrca Oreopteris, and L. cemula were noted at 

 Barleeagh Wood. Next day I went by train and car to 

 Urlingford, in the extreme north-west corner of the county, 

 for there alone, maps told me, did bog occur. South of 

 Urlingford are wide marshes, northward extensive bogs. 

 Both yielded their quota of plants ; the former (adding some 

 boggy ground near Johnstown subsequently explored) Viola 

 canina (new to III.), My?iophyllum vaticillatum, Epipactis 

 palustris, Juncus obtusifloius, Carex tcretiusctda (new to III.), 

 Sclaginella ; the latter £>?vsera anglica, Andromeda, Vaccinium 

 Oxycoccus, Rhynchospora alba, Lastrca spinulosa — all additions 

 to my Kilkenny list. The rate of progress of this, a typical 

 county list, may be of interest to those engaged in similar 

 work : — 1st day (May 19, 1897), 22 5 species ; 2nd day (July 30, 

 1898), 125 additional ; 3rd day (July 31), 65 ; 4th day (Aug. 1), 

 34 ; 5th day (Aug. 2), 20 ; total for five days' work, 469 species, 

 to which must be added twenty or thirty critical plants not 

 yet named. Were a list of equal size in existence for each 

 county-division, Topographical Botany might be published 

 almost at once. 



A week later I went to Carlow — like Kilkenny, a county 

 almost devoid of bogs or marshes, lakes or mountains ; 

 and consisting chiefly of tilled, granite country. I had 

 the fortune to light on a strip of marshy ground on the 

 limestone south of Carlow town, which yielded a number 

 of desiderata — Viola ca?iina, Myriophyllum verticillatum, 

 Galium nliginosum (new to III.), Epipactis pa his Iris, 

 Juncus obiusiflorus, Sparganium minimum, Potamogeton 

 coloratus, Cladium, Carex filifo7mis, C. paludosa. A gravel- 

 bank added Erigeron acre, Gentiana Amarclla, and Calamintha 



