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to be a luxuriant viviparous form of ^S. stellaris, with much 

 branched panicle and the flowers transformed into minute 

 rosettes of leaves. But a closer examination shows that while 

 some of these leaf-rosettes are derived from flowers, others, 

 and by far the greater number of them, are quite sessile on 

 the panicle branches in positions where the flowers are never 

 found in ,t3^pical 5. stellaris. That the plant does belong 

 to this species is testified by the few flowers which remain 

 untransformed at the extremities of the panicle, though the 

 leaves in the basal rosette with their long, winged footstalks 

 more resemble those of the North American ^S. leucanthemifolia 

 of Michaux. Mr. Arthur Bennett tells me that he has a 

 specimen from alpine rocks near I^args, Ayrshire, nearly as 

 foliaceous as the Glen Inagh plant. 



The whole of the eastern face of the Twelve Bens, though 

 much of it lies at an elevation of over 2,000 feet, gives but 

 four Highland Type plants — Saxifraga stellaris, Sedu7n 

 Rhodiola, Arctostaphylos Uva-2crsi, and Jicniperus 7iana — 

 while the isolated hill of lyisoughter, on the opposite side of 

 Glen Inagh, and reaching to little more than 1,300 feet, gives 

 no less than six — Dryas octopetala, Saxifraga oppositifolia, 

 Hieraciiun anglicuni, Ju7iipcrus nana, Aspleniuvi vijide, and 

 Selaginella selaginoidcs. Here, in August, 1898, we found 

 Saxifraga oppositifolia descending alongside a rill in abundance 

 to the low level of 450 feet. 



On Monday, the 17th, we drove from Joyce's to Leenane, 

 where we found good quarters in the modest Mweelrea View 

 Hotel. On the road, in a moorland longhaun east of I^ough 

 Fee, we saw the Yellow Water-lily, apparently a rare species 

 in West Ireland. The afternoon was given \v^ to a pleasant 

 scramble on Benwee, a point rising to 2,000 feet just behind 

 the hotel, and having some well-placed cliffs near the top. 

 Here Thalictruni colli^itim, Sednni Rhodiola, Hieracium iricum, 

 Saxifraga stellaris, and Carex rigida were gathered, and a 

 solitary plant of Habenaria albida was observed at 1,600 feet, 

 the highest Irish station so far recorded for the species. 



Tuesday, the 18th, was spent on the high mountain-ridge 

 north of Glenummera, a glen running due east from the foot 

 of Dhoo Ivough, in County Mayo. For two miles this ridge 

 maintains a height of little less than 2,400 feet, and in one 



