234 '^^^^ Irish Naturalist. October, 



county find. I worked round the east end of Carrick 

 Lake, and, the woods having now dried, again to Correl Glen. 

 Picking uj^ last year's bearings^ I examined the higher half 

 of the wooded sandstone escarpment, left unworked last year, 

 but to my surprise, P. sectmda did not turn up here ; it appears 

 confined to the lower and. more vShady half. 



Next day it poured without intercession. I tramped to 

 Knockmore, and floundered round the base of the huge clifF- 

 wall, through drenching grass and bushes, without a singlenew 

 plant to reward me. On the precipice above, great dead Yews 

 thrust out gaunt branches, or vShowed gnarled grey trunks 

 twisting among the grey rocks. Only at the east end of the 

 cliff does this tree now grow in any quantity. Climbing to 

 the summit of the cliff here. Dry as octopetala was welcome. 

 Mr. Stewart recorded it from one spot near the western end of 

 the cliff-range ; it proved to be very abundant all over the top 

 of the mountain — indeed, I have not seen it in such quantity 

 except in Clare. Another rare plant which was plentiful here 

 was Euphrasia Salisburi^ensis. Some cliffs and limestone pave- 

 ments south of Knockmore were visited, and then I tramped 

 homeward in the rain. 



On July 5 I took the lake-shore road westward to Poulaphuca. 

 This name is applied to the whole range of high cliffs, several 

 miles in length, which overlook L^ough Erne. The place is 

 also called Barr of Whealt (pronounce Whee-alt), a name pre- 

 sumably meaning " top of the wooded escarpment," which is 

 certainly descriptive. " Barr" (summit) is a very frequent in- 

 gredient in place-names in this area. Ascending to the cliff- 

 base north-east of the point marked 1,030 feet on the one-inch 

 map, I found at once an interesting plant and an interesting 

 animal. The plant was Dryas octopetala^ recorded from Poula- 

 phuca by Wade exactly 100 years ago. The animal was Helix 

 arbustorum, which occurred plentifully on wet slopes covered 

 with grass and Equisetuni 7?iaxi7?ium — no nettles. As far as I 

 went along the cliff-base, for a distance of over a mile, this 

 snail was common, especially so when nettles, its favourite 

 habitat, began to be abundant. On the cliffs Hawkweeds were 

 present in large quantity, but small variety, the only form 



1 See I.N.^ xii., 246. 1903. 



