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also three additions to the flora of District VIII. — Sisymbrium 

 Alliaria, Chcnopodiiim Bonus-Hcnricjis, and Carcx riparia. 

 Thence I followed the shore eastward, with the sand-dunes of 

 Bartragh Island cutting off the open sea, to the beautiful 

 ruins of Moj'ue Abbey, where Iinila Hclcniitm and Fctivselinum 

 satizmm still tell of the Franciscan kitchen-garden. Then up 

 the Moy estuar}-, past Rosserk Abbey, and inland to Rathroeen 

 Lough, where a good haul of bog and water plants was obtained, 

 including Potamogdoyi obtnsifoliiis, new to VIII., Carcx limosa, 

 &c. A few^ miles by road brought me to Ballina. 



Next morning I started w^estward, and first halted at Deel 

 Castle. The woods there added some plants to m}^ list, 

 including Epipadis lafifolia, new to VIII., and Viola odorata, 

 also new to VIII., but to be marked here with at. I struck the 

 Lough Conn shore at the mouth of the Deel River. The 

 characteristic flora of Lough Conn turned up at once — 

 Sanguisorba officinalis, first found here by Mr. More, one of 

 the most local of Irish plants, its other stations being all in 

 the North-east (District XII.) I may say at once that I found 

 it right round the lake, but never more than a hundred 3'ards 

 from the water's edge ; it is more abundant on the eastern 

 than on the western side, and becomes rare on the southern 

 shores, where the limestone is replaced b}' gneiss and granite. 

 With the Potcrium were Thalictrtim coUnuini and Galium 

 borealc, w^hich also occurred right round the lake ; Plantago 

 Diaritima, abundant over this whole district ; Lithospermum 

 officinale \n quantity; Riibns saxalilis, Sic. The shores of 

 Lough Conn on this side are exceedingly ston}', and the 

 characteristic scene on the lake-shore consists of a slope like 

 a badh' macadamized road ga}^ with the flowers of the 

 Potcrium, Thalicti'um. and Plantago aforesaid set among sheets 

 of Wild Thyme — a combination to be seen nowhere else in 

 Ireland. My boots were beginning to complain of the knife- 

 like edges of the stones wdien I reached a patch of bog on the 

 shore opposite Annagh Island, and when crossing it what was 

 my delight to see the erect bushes of Erica nicditcrranea 

 growing among the commoner heaths. There was not much of 

 it here — only a half dozen plants were counted — but six were 

 as good as six hundred. The known range of this, one of the 

 most interesting of our Cantabrian plants, was well defined, 



