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question of the nativity of Bj'achypodium piyuiatum in its only 

 Irish station ; and I may at once say that I agree with its dis- 

 coverer, Mr. Phillips (/.iV., vii., 253), in admitting it without 

 reserve to our indigenous flora. Coming back over the salt- 

 marshes which lie behind the beach, ErythrcBa pulchella was 

 found in great profusion over a wide area ; Trijoliufn fragiferum 

 and Suceda were with it, and manj^ other halophytes. The 

 drier grounds near Tram ore yielded Agrimonia odorata, 

 Linaria Elatine, Li7itim angustifolium. Striking inland to the 

 westward, a group of rocky hills was visited which embosom 

 two little lakelets, which, with one other near Dun more, consit- 

 tutethe only standing water in the whole County of Waterford. 

 The larger of the two, Ballyscanlan Lough, is deep and clear, 

 and yielded Isoetes lacustris, in addition to Lobelia Dortma7ina 

 already recorded from here. Both species of Scutellaria and 

 other marsh plants grew by the margin. A terribly hot tramp 

 brought me northward to Mount Congreve, where once again 

 Agrimonia odorata was noted. Here it grew abundantly along 

 the roadside banks, mixed with A. Eupatoria^ afibrding a 

 very pretty study in the specific characters of the two. From 

 Mount Congreve to Waterford the Suir proved uninteresting 

 — a continuous mud-bank fringed with a forest of reeds. Now 

 for the first time the heat of this tropical summer was fairly 

 too much for me, and I retired ingloriously home. 



I was on the tramp again on August 24, when five days 

 were devoted to East Galway. The weather was cool and 

 shower^', a delightful contrast to previous experiences, and I 

 averaged twelve hours in the field and twenty-five miles of 

 walking per day for the ensuing week. My principal object 

 was to carefully list the maritime flora of Galway Bay, an 

 almost unworked region. On the first day I worked from 

 Oranmore to Galway, along the only bit of coast-line which 

 N.K. Galway possesses. The poverty of the maritime flora of 

 the West compared with the East was steadily forced upon my 

 attention all day. The most interesting plants seen were 

 Glaucium flavum and Chenopodium rubrum. Dipsacus occurred 

 on dry' banks, and Solanum nigrum and Hyoscyamus in some 

 abundance on the beach east of Galway. From Galway I 

 wentN.E. along the course of the remarkable Terryland River^ 

 which, reversing the usual order of things, flows out of the 



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