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north and west of Claremorris. The more interesting ground 

 in this bare country consisted of eskers, bogs, lake-shores, 

 and turloughs. The plants found included Rhynchospora fusca, 

 Plantago maritime/, (here very far from the sea), Rhamnus 

 catharticus, and a beautiful set of thistle hybrids, showing 

 every gradation from C. prate?isis to C. palustris. At the 

 railway station Matricaria discoidea was present as usual. 



Next day was wet, but I visited Knockmae, west of Tuam, 

 the highest hill in this flat country. Epipactis atro-rubens is 

 by no means rare here (see Irish Naturalist, viii., 181), but I 

 searched in vain for Saxifraga hypnoides, recorded in Wade's 

 " Plantae Rariores " (1804), but apparently never seen here 

 since. The rain clearing off, I made a forced march to Lough 

 Corrib, but botanizing was interrupted by a boating adventure 

 that came very near putting a definite stop to my work on 

 " Topographical Botany," and I was glad to retreat to Tuam, 

 wet and empty-handed. The following morning I rode to 

 Annaghdown, and in company with Mrs. Frank Joyce 

 explored fresh portions of the Lough Corrib shores. Neotinea 

 intacta, growing sparingly by the lake, was the best find. In 

 the evening we cycled southward thirty miles to St. Cleran's. 

 A halt on the way at Coolarne (where Mrs. Joyce has found 

 Vicia Orobus) revealed Ophrys muscifera growing abundantly 

 and very large, and on the bare limestone Erica cinerea> for 

 the first time in all N.E- Galway. 



The following day I went with Mrs. Joyce to Chevy Chase, 

 lying on the western slope of the broad Old Red Sandstone 

 ridge of Slieve Aughta. This place is famous as the only 

 mainland Galway station of Euphorbia hibema, discovered 

 here by Mr. Hart in 1873. We found the plant at once, 

 accompanied by Thalictrum collinum, and I traced it up the 

 Owendalulleegh River for four or five miles, and downwards 

 almost to Lough Cooter. Other similar streams descend these 

 western slopes, which should be searched for it ; but it is 

 apparently not on the eastern slopes — at Dalystown for 

 instance. The day's work added many calcifuge plants to the 

 list for S.K- Galway. Next day I botanized round Lough 

 Cooter, then north for seven or eight miles, and back into 

 Gort. Lough Cooter was chiefly remarkable for the variety 

 of its Orchid flora ; I gathered thirteen species in half an 

 hour — Habe?iaria conopsca, viridis } bi/olia, chloroleuca ; Orchis 



