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depth of water has probably barred further advance, long 

 before this point was reached. 



Returning to the "Altar" cave and working from it in a 

 N.E. direction, one reaches another wide chamber, in which, 

 however, one cannot stand upright ; the roof is covered with 

 short pipe-stem stalactites, and supported b}^ a pillar-shaped 

 mass somewhat like a font ; from this, one of the passages 

 parallel with the face of the cliff can be reached, which 

 followed in a west direction crosses one's original track. 



The gallery opposite the "Headless Coach" runs straight 

 in for about thirty yards, from which point a passage can be 

 picked in a S.E. direction to the " Altar Cave." I have not 

 examined the entrance mentioned by Bishop Bennett in his 

 garden. 



Given plenty of time I think one might be able to work 

 one's way from the openings by the road to the present 

 entrance, a distance in a straight line of perhaps two hundred 

 and fifty yards. In conclusion, I should like to thank Mr. 

 Creed, owner of the ground for permission to explore, as well 

 as Capt. the Hon. F, G. Hood, R.E., for assistance in doing 

 so. A. W. Walton, son of the Cathedral sexton, has accom- 

 panied me through the Cave on several occasions. ' 



Crossliaven, Co. Cork. 



NOTES. 



BOTANY. 



Car ex ro strata, var. utriculata. 



Canx utriculata^ Boolt, in Hooker Fl. Bor. Amer., ii. (1840), p. 221. 



C. rostrata, With. var. utriculata, Bailey in Proc. Am, Acad. Arts and 

 Sciences, 1886, p. 67. 



In " Mem. Torrey Bot. Club," i. (1889), p. 59, Prof. Bailey gives this 

 sedge specific rank, saying that a study of much material, in field and 

 herbarium, renders the differences between the European C. rostrata and 

 this plant apparent. Dr.^ Britton, in " Man. PI. Northern States and 

 Canada," keeps it as a species. Boott figures it in his " 111. Genus 

 Carex," i., p. 14, t. 39 (1S58), and specimens are in the herbarium at Kew. 



Pf. Kiikenthal in * Das Pflanzenreich "^ (" Cyperaceae, Caricoideae," 

 1909), gives the Irish plant recorded in error as C. rhynchophysa as C. 

 rostrata var. utriculata (Boott). 



^ See Ann. Scott. Nat. Hist,, January, 1910. 



