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On July 17 I started on a northern tour. That day was 

 spent in L,outh, round by Ballymascanlan and Ravensdale. 

 Valerianella rimosa was the best plant found ; my hostess, 

 Mrs. Swan, got a better one in Geranium columbinum, but as 

 it grows here on a wall off the limestone, I fear it must be 

 marked %, On the 18th Mr. Allen Swan and I had a splendid 

 day round by Bush, Whitestovvn, Greenore and Carlingford, 

 and over Carlingford Mountain back to Dundalk. The sandy 

 fields near Greenore yield many good colonists, including 

 Silene noctiflora, S. anglica, and Saponaria Vaccaria, and the 

 coast flora is full of interest ; Erodium nioschatum is frequent, 

 and Galium Mollugo and a Cnscuta not yet in flower, pre- 

 sumably C. trifolii, occurred. On Carlingford Mountain, high 

 above the limits of cultivation, Aquilegia grows in clefts of the 

 rock along streamlets, looking absolutely indigenous. On 

 the summit of the hill we were fortunate in stumbling across 

 one of the few plants of the Parsley Fern that exist there — a 

 stunted but healthy patch on a high rock. Thence across the 

 hills to Bellurgan, where Agrimonia odorata grew luxuriantly „ 

 This walk was perhaps more productive in variety of plants 

 than any of which I have a record, upwards of 400 species 

 having been noted during the day, Shifting quarters next 

 morning to Ballybay in Monaghan, a useful day was spent on 

 the hummocky lake-strewn Ordovician country south of that 

 town. Polyg07ium minus, Sclerant/izis annuus y Habenaria 

 albida, Pctamogeton alpinus and obtusifolius, were among the 

 plants obtained, the flora being essentially calcifuge. Next 

 day I worked through similar country from Glasslough to 

 Ballybay. Polygonum minus and Potamogeton obtusifolius were 

 most characteristic, and Annaghmakerig I^ough yielded a 

 good haul of Characce. Sedum Telepkium, growing abundantly 

 on rocks at Rockcorry, appears to be the first record for 

 District X. The two days' work gave a considerable increase 

 to the flora of Monaghan as shown by the previous lists of 

 Mr. Somerville, Mr. Waddell, and myself. Two days were 

 next spent in Fermanagh, with Enniskillen as centre. Under 

 Mr. Plunkett's guidance, a number of low-level bogs were 

 explored, which stretch along the base of the Florencecourt 

 range of hills. The bog-flora of Fermanagh being hitherto 

 practically ?* *7, a number of desiderata were obtained. Drosera 



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