1900.] Praegek. — Round Lough Coim, 225 



I arrived in Ballina late on the afternoon of Jnly 26th, for, 

 in spite of *' acceleration," the journe}^ from Dublin still 

 occupies seven hours. The daylight remaining was devoted 

 to listing plants in the neighbourhood, on the Mayo side of 

 the river. The first plant my eye fell on was that irrepressible 

 alien, Matricaria discoidca, which is abundant about the town. 

 The Moy yielded little. In marsh}- ground were Epipadis 

 palusfris in full ^ower, /it? lais obiusijiorus, Pinguicula lusitanica^ 

 Spa7-ga7iiuin miniuium. Coming home along the raihva}' 

 Linaria viscida appeared with Matricaria Chamomilla and 

 Fcstuca rigida, and what was more interesting, a good colony 

 of the rare Poa coniprcssa. I watched for this grass on old 

 walls, and other places less open to suspicion, but did not see it 

 again, and to this station a t or | must be appended. This 

 last, with Linaria viscida and Pctasites fragrans, constitute 

 additions to the flora of District VIII. of " Cybele Hibernica." 



Next morning I took train to Killala, situated on the sea 

 near the mouth of the Mo}', and first explored an extensive 

 stretch of sand-dunes that lie three miles north of the village. 

 Like all the western dunes, the flora was amazingh^ scanty. 

 On the shore, not even S a/sola or Cakilc brightened the bare 

 sand ; and the onh^ arenicole plants on the dunes were Psamvia^ 

 Viola Ctutisii, and Cci'astitun tctrandrzim. A relieving feature 

 was furnished by the great abundance of Gentiana Amarclla 

 in full bloom, interspersed with the white stars of Sagina 

 nodosa. Refreshed by a swim, I returned along the shore, 

 adding considerabl}' to the Mayo salt-marsh list. Killala 

 consists of a round tower and man}^ public-houses. In one 

 of these I had lunch, in company with an aged lad}' fiddler, 

 and to her unmitigated blessings, ^ when I offered to pay her 

 modest reckoning, the best find of the day, which was made 

 immediately after, must naturally be attributed — nameh', the 

 alpine Draba incana, growing on sand-dunes half a mile east 

 of Killala, unknown hitherto in County Mayo. Killala yielded 



^ This goorl lady's speech is realh' worthy of preservation : — •'F'aith, 

 an' I didn't know, acushla, what the divil I was to say to Mrs. Casey, for 

 sorra a pinny I had an me barrin' three-ha'pence, an' the half of that 

 owed alread}' ; but the Lord has sint a holy man from the dear knows 

 where with a tin drum on his broad back [the reference is to my 

 vasculum], who has relieved me of all ni}- dishtress; and ma}- all the 

 blissius," &c., &c., &c. 



