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is the ouly interesting plant, but towards the summit large 

 areas of stony slope are covered with this and Arrneria 

 inaritima. The clouds cleared away as the top was reached, 

 and I enjoyed a glorious view, extending from Slieve lycague 

 and Ben Bulben to Longford, lyOUghrea, and Achill. Carcx 

 rigida and Salix herbacca were on the summit. On the north 

 side of the mountain is a gigantic cirque, into which I 

 descended, seeing Saxifraga stcllaris, and at least a thousand 

 feet below the summit l^acciniuvi Vitis-idcea, found b}' Dickie 

 but not by Hart. From the base of Nephin I returned to 

 the Lough Conn shore at Castlehill. North of this, a con- 

 siderable ])eninsula projects into the lake. Its neck is boggy, 

 and the bog extends northward towards Inishcoe House. I 

 was stumbling along here through heathery tussocks, when 

 to m}'- delight I came on Erica 7ncditcrranea again. This time 

 it was in abundance, its erect-growing round bushes rising on 

 all sides among the low scrub of ilJyrica and Schcemis that 

 fringed the lake, and though of course out of blossom (save a 

 few tiny sprays) it was a sight to gladden the heart of a 

 botanist. The heat and flies were both forgotten, and in great 

 good humour I crossed the woods of Inishcoe and rejoined 

 the lake shore. Here Agrirnonia odorata put in an appearance, 

 growing in quantity under the sheltering fringe of bushes that 

 marked storm-level, and it continued abundant right up to 

 Gortnaraby (now figuring as Gortnor Abbey !) where I swam 

 for some pond-weeds. Salix alba, unrecorded for VIII., looked 

 as native here as it usually does — which is not saying much. 

 It was late w^hen I reached Crossmolina, and a pleasant, 

 evening drive brought me back to Baliina. 



The anticline which runs across northern Sligo and forms 

 the bleak bog-covered range of the Ox Mountains continues 

 into Mayo as a dark forbidding ridge of i,ooo feet or more in 

 height, which terminates at Foxford on the Moy. My previous 

 work in East Mayo having been mainly un the limestone, 

 this ground was chosen for the next day's work. An early 

 train was taken to Foxford, where Matricaria discoidca turned 

 up as usual. Crossing the Moy, I passed fn^m West to Kast 

 Ma\(), and from District VIII. to IX. Pa paver soimiifenwi, 

 apparenth' naturalized about here, is unrecorded for IX. 

 Crossing a group of rocky hills, Callow Lough was visited 

 and I turned northward along the edge of the high ground. 



