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30-mile day was compensated for by the discovery of Carex 

 axilla?is in its fourth Irish station, the others being Kinsale 

 1866 (Carroll), Mountmellick 1885 (Hart), and Malahide 1894 

 (Colgan). It grew here sparingly by the roadside between 

 Grange and Lough Elia, accompanied b}^ both its reputed 

 parents, C. vulpina and C remota : C. mnricata was not present. 

 Next day I left Carrick-on-Shannon, and halting at CoUooney, 

 struck eastward along the heathery ridge of metamorphic 

 rock that breaks through the limestone plain between the Ox 

 Mountains and Lough Gill, worked along the Lough Gill 

 shore, and back to CoUooney. Habenaria albida on the 

 uplands and Neottia Nidus-avis by the lake were the most 

 noteworthy plants observed. Knniskillen was reached that 

 evening. Next day the heat was so intense that after a few 

 hours' work Mr. Plunkett and I were fairly driven home, 

 and did not venture out again till late in the afternoon, when 

 some work was done on the Lough Krne vShores below Ely 

 Lodge. 



With this hot spell the flowers of a late spring all vanished, 

 and when I next went afield on June 17 it was full summer. 

 That day I worked down the River Nore from Attanagh to 

 Kilkenu}'. The stream yielded the running-water form (var. 

 gramiiiifolius) oi Potamogeto7i heterophyllus, new to District III. 

 Other additions to III. were Chenopodiiim B 071ns- Hc?iriais, 

 Plantago media (well established on a rough, brambly slope 

 near Lismaine House) and Lysimachia N^innnularia by the 

 river. Above Ballyragget was gathered Salix frnticosa 

 ( = S. anrita x vimhialis^, a hybrid not previously recorded from 

 Ireland, and kS. tria^idra. On old walls both above and below 

 Ballyragget, removed from an^^ garden, Draba vmralis was 

 gathered in abundance. I had previously found it near Kil- 

 kenny (/. N., viii.. 88) and I should not be surprised if it 

 proves to be native in this part of the country. An evening 

 train took me to Athy, whence next morning I walked down 

 the Barrow to Levitstown Lock, and thence eastward across 

 the southern end of Co. Kildare, ending up my day at 

 Baltinglass, in Wicklow. Lysimachia Nummularia (new to V.) 

 below Athy and Festiica Myuros at Baltinglass were the best 

 plants seen. 



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