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and /imcus acuttcs, both recorded from here, were gathered, and 

 other plants less rare, but more useful for my lists. 



On July 13 I went to Tuam for five days' work in Co. 

 Galway. In the afternoon I worked over Knockroe, a low but 

 conspicuous hill in this featureless country, past Moyne Abbey, 

 and northward to the Grange River. In a marsh east of the 

 stream, three-quarters of a mile north of Barbersfort, I got a 

 sedge which, thrown off my guard by its inland habitat, I did 

 not recognize as the familiar sea-side C distans\\\\ Mr. Bennett 

 named it for me. The only other inland locality I know of in 

 Ireland is Cleenishgarve, on I^ough Erne {LN,, i., 113) which 

 is omitted in Cybele. Splashing through the Grange River in 

 the dusk at the ruined corn-mill above Barbersfort, my eye 

 caught a smalLpondweed growing on the gravelly bottom of 

 the shallow rapid stream, which I recognized as the rare 

 endemic P. lanccolatus,^^\^%\\0'SA.s confirmed by Mr. A. Bennett, 

 who remarks that it is the same large-leaved form which I 

 sent him from Clonbrock {LN., v., 243), and for which he 

 suggested the name var. hibernicus. The only other Irish 

 station for the species is in Clare, and, so far, a 25-mile radius 

 will include its known localities in this island. Elsewhere, 

 it is known only from Anglesea and Cambridgeshire. 



On July 14 a long loop was made for the exploration of 

 several lakes lying to the northward of Tuam. Not far from 

 the town Lamiiim intet medium, new to District VI., was 

 gathered. The Clare river below Weir Bridge yielded a 

 number of interesting plants, of which the conspicuous var. 

 Moorei of Apiiim inundatiim was unknown outside Ulster, and 

 Carex acuta was unrecorded for District VI. On the edge of 

 the bog here Carex distans was gathered again. A wet 

 patch of bog lying half a mile east of Killower lyOUgh 

 yielded a group of good plants — Lobelia Dortmanna, Eriocaiclon 

 septangular e, Rhynchospora fusca, Carex Ihnosa^ growing amid 

 an abundance of all three Droseras. This is an important 

 extension of range for the Pipewort. It was unknown 

 east of Lough Corrib, and the line showing its limit on 

 the map in Cybele must now be shifted 15 miles further 

 inland. Both it and Lobelia looked strangely out of place on 

 this low-lying limestone countiy. The rest of this day, 

 though highly interesting, calls for no special comment. 



