136 The Irish Naturalist. [June, 



On June 3 I went to Shillelagh and worked across the hills 

 to Tiillow. The season was still backward, which was the 

 cause of my gathering Myosotis collina in good condition on a 

 wall at Tullow — the second inland station for the species in 

 Ireland, the other being Lough Neagh near Antrim. This 

 formed an interesting addition to the flora of District III. 

 Next da}' I worked down the picturesque Slane}^ as far as 

 Ballintemple, getting Geiim intcrviediiwi, Lath^'cea sqnamaria, 

 Eqjdsetuni hyemale, and other plants, and back across the 

 hills through Shillelagh to Tinahely, seeing great abundance 

 of Lastrea spi7mIosa in dr}^ woods between these places : in 

 Ireland it usuallj^ grows in open bogg}' ground. Next day I 

 w^as almost suffocated by heat in the Vale of Ovoca, where I 

 was listing the plants of Avondale. 



June 9 to 13 was spent in North-western Ireland, in five 



counties — one day in each — noting spring plants. The heat 



was the fiercest that had been experienced for some years, but 



fortunately I was in a region of lakes and rivers, and refreshed 



by frequent swnms, I averaged 20 miles of walking and 60 of 



rail per day. With Carrick-on-Shannon as head-quarters I 



spent the first day in Co. Leitrim, northw^ard of that town. 



The first plant to catch mj^ ej^e as I left the railway station 



(on the Roscommon side of the Shannon), w^as Alatricaria 



discoidea, an alien previousl}^ known onl}- from Co. Dublin, 



but destined to play an important part in the present 



season's work. The best plant of this day was Potamogeto7i 



filijormis, which grew in the little lough of Annaghearl5\ 



The neighbourhood of lycitrim furnished an inland station for 



Vicia angnstifolia, unrecorded for District IX. Next day I 



listed plants in East Mayo, near Ballaghaderreen. ]\Iatricaria 



discoidea welcomed me again at the railway station, and 



further west Lnziila vcrnalis turned up in its second station 



west of the Shannon, an addition to the flora of District IX. 



The nth was spent south of Carrick-on-Shannon, among the 



maze of lakes lying east of Klphin, in Co. Roscommon. A 



long and verj^ hot time was spent in beating the woods and 



marshes, and in crossing impossible streams — a couple of feet 



of flowing water choked with weeds, with a j^ard of soft mud 



underneath. The flora was interesting, though in no way 



remarkable ; but on the homeward journey an exhausting 



