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light compelled me to beat a retreat here, and I was soaked 

 through when I reached Kinvarra, where grew Linaria 

 Cymbalaria, unrecorded for District VI. The features of the 

 return journey are summed up in the abundance of Artemisia 

 mariti?}ia and of the delicious Spiranthes autum7ialis. The 

 27th was spent listing seaside plants in W. Galway, from 

 Galway to Barna. Several plants unrecorded for District 

 VIII. were noted — Sagina apetala, at vSalthill^ ; Myriophylhcm 

 spicahim, at Galway Docks; Carduus pyc7iocephalus, at Galway 

 and Gentian Hill ; Li7iaria Cy77ibala^ia, at Galway ; Ruppia 

 rostellata, at Gentian Hill. Searching the gravelly promontary 

 opposite Barna House I was interested to find that the alpine- 

 calcicole flora for which Gentian Hill is famous — Gentiana 

 ver7ia, Ju7iiperus na7ia^ Dryas octopeiala, &e. — extends to this 

 place. On my fast day in Galway I worked up the Corrib 

 along the east bank. The rare Lemna polyrhiza in ditches at 

 Menlo was, perhaps, the best plant found. The great flats 

 where Lough Corrib narrows into the river yielded nothing 

 uncommon. In a ditch near Carrowbrowne a very pretty 

 form of Poia77iogeto7i heterophyllus^ unrecorded for VI., was 

 abundant. Thence I made a wide semicircle over rather 

 featureless inland country to Oranmore. 



That evening I shifted headquarters to Athlone, and next 

 day worked across through Clara to TuUamore, in King's Co. 

 About Clara grew PeucedanuTn sativum (abundant on an esker), 

 Polygo7iu77i lapathifolium^ and Festuca Myuros, all unrecorded 

 for VII., and my old friend, Matricaria discoidea, formed a close 

 mat on the fair-green. The 30th was spent in Westmeath, 

 between Athlone and Moate, listing late plants. Centaurea 

 Scahiosa and Carex ^a^/anearGlynwood House, and \ Matricaria 

 Cha77iomilla on an esker north of Moate, represented additions 

 to the flora of VII. The last day of the season, August 31, was 

 cold and showery, and I spent a quite uneventful day in Ros- 

 common, about Ballinasloe. The most promising plant 

 gathered was a Burdock, which I suspected to be A. majus. 

 Mr. Bennett shares my suspicions, but also my lack of cer- 

 tainty. Thus ended my field-work in 1899. 



National Library', DubHn. 



'A station in VIII. is given b}' Mr. Colgan in last month's issue. 



