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base of Blackstairs, where Radiola liiioides (new to III.), 

 Ajifhanis nobilis, Filago minima, &c., grew. Blackstairs was 

 ascended in sweltering heat, and thence in the cool of the 

 evening the lowlands were crossed to Borris. On the 31st I 

 worked from Carlow along the limestone country west of the 

 Barrow to Bagnalstown, and added some calcicole species to 

 the Carlow flora. Galcopsis aiigiisiifolia was, perhaps, the best 

 plant seen. 



The weather was hotter than ever when I reached Waterford 

 on the night of August 11. The country was parched, and 

 the landscape danced in the pitiless heat. A start at 6 a.m. 

 appeared the best chance of doing any work, and I got away 

 ftom Mullinavat eastward, beat some moory ground covered 

 with delicious tart cranberries, and striking south ascended 

 Tory Hill, a conspicuous conical peak of Old Red conglo- 

 merate. On its southern flanks Agrimonia odorata and Liiitwi 

 a7igusiiJoIium Were observed, and by the stream at Catsrock 

 Bridge fine tufts of Osmunda, now very rare in Carlow. I 

 revisited lyOUgh CuUin without adding anything remarkable 

 to its flora, and struck south-eastward across country for 

 Ballinlaw Ferry, on the tidal Barrow. Agri77i07iia oderata 

 again appeared near the river. I worked down the Barrow 

 and up the Suir to the mill above Snowhill with good results, 

 and need onlj^ mention here plants additional to the notes 

 published by Mr. Barrett-Hamilton on the flora of the neigh* 

 bourhood {Joii??i. Bot., xxvii., 7 ; xxviii., 88.) At Ballinlaw 

 Beta maritima, and at Snowhill Spergularia media and Zostera 

 mariiia represented additions to the District III. flora. Two 

 much moreinteresting additions were, however, made. Corydalis 

 claviadata grew plentifully on a high rocky bluff overhanging 

 the river below Ballinlaw, and, curiously enough, splendid 

 specim_ens in full flower were obtained in this scorching mid- 

 August. Lower down, on rocks overhung by trees on the 

 beach, the beautiful variety aciitum of Asplenitwi Adiantiun- 

 nigrum grew with the type, in luxuriance rivalling its 

 Killarney home. The trees here hang far over the water, and 

 their lower branches are draped with seaweed, just as the 

 Florida trees are hung with pendent grey lichen. Waterford 

 was reached at 10 p.m. Next day I went early to Tramore. 

 A visit was paid to the far end of the remarkable isthmus 

 trom which the place derives its name in order to study the 



