ii6 The Irish Naturalist. [May, 



Vitis-Idcea, Oxyria re7iifo7mis^ Salix herbacca, Carex rigida, 

 Lycopodium alpinumy and Sclaginella sclaginoides. This total 

 compares very favourably with that for the great mass of 

 Mweelrea, whose imposing ranges of lofty cliffs yield only 12 

 alpine or Highland Type species. 



A quiet day at Leenane, and on Tuesda}', July 20th, we 

 drove by the beautiful Krriff Valley to Westport, whence we 

 took the afternoon train on to the picturesque little town of 

 Newport. Here, as at Westport, we were surprised to find 

 Matricaria discoidca established in abundance, as already 

 recorded in the Irish Naiu7'alist for October last. We fixed 

 our quarters at Newport for a few days for the purpose of 

 climbing Cushcamcarragh (2,343 feet), the second highest 

 point in the Nephin Beg mountain-system, which, with the 

 wide-stretching bogs that isolate it on north and east and 

 west, forms, perhaps, the largest wilderness in all Ireland. 

 Mr. Hart explored, or, rather, reconnoitered, this region in 

 1882, attacking it from the north and traversing its peaks and 

 ridges from Deel Bridge to Newport in one arduous day's 

 tramp. Disheartened b}- the botanical nakedness of the 

 country, he made no further exploration of it, and does not 

 appear to have climbed Cushcamcarragh, or Cushcam, as it is 

 locally called. 



On the 2ist July, a breathless, hazy day, we made the ascent 

 by a four-mile-long ridge which runs north to the summit 

 from the Mulranny high-road near the hamlet of Marj^land. 

 The top of the mountain when we reached it proved to be a 

 fine piece of rock-sculpture, a narrow crest, at one point 

 passing into a true arete, and rising here and there into rocky 

 pinnacles as it swept south-eastward into the long and lofty 

 ridge which links it with Bengorm (1,912 feet). Clambering 

 down the steep northern slope to the floor of Glenamong, we 

 found nothing rarer than Saxifraga stellaris, and after a short 

 halt we returned to the crest by some steep gullies facing 

 north-east. On our way up, at a height of from 1,500 to 1,800 

 feet, we came across Saxifraga oppositifolia and Oxyria 

 reniformis in abundance, both additions to the flora of the 

 Nephin Beg region, and the first previously recorded for the 

 County Mayo onl}^ from Mr. Hart's station on I^oughty or 

 Shefifry Mountain. Near the crest, along the northern face of 



