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to the interesting group which inhabits this curious tract of 

 country, and still another may be mentioned in Saxifraga 

 tridcutylites, which is frequent in crevices of gneissose rocks in the 

 same locality. 



Gentlana verna, L. — Not altogether confined to the limestone. We 

 saw it growing on peaty banks on the overlying shales, amid a calci- 

 fuge flora, 700-800 feet elevation, in several spots between Bally- 

 vaughan and Lisdoonvarna. 



This plant increases in size by means of slender underground 

 shoots, proceeding from an underground central root-stock, and we 

 found that patches a foot across, with fifty to a hundred flowering 

 stems, consisted thus of a single individual. This fact may account 

 for some of the non-success which often attends the cultivation of 

 this beautiful species. 



Euphrasia Salisburg/ensis, Funk. — Abundant on the limestone 

 throughout the district traversed by us— namely, Ardrahan to Bally- 

 vaughan. and thence south towards Lisdoonvarna, and west round 

 Black Head to Poulsallagh ; also on sea sands at Murrough and 

 Ballyvaughan. I have already reported its abundance in south-west 

 Connemara. Among some unnamed Eyebrights collected at Brown 

 Hall, near Ballyshanuon, in 1900, I find good specimens of E. Satis- 

 burgensis ; so the known range of this plant now extends from 

 Limerick to Donegal. 



Pinguicula grandif lora, Lamk.— We had an opportunity of exa- 

 mining the Lisdoonvarna station for this plant, discovered by the 

 late Prof. Birmingham in 1903 {I.N., xii., 269) — its only British 

 locality outside the counties ot Kerry and Cork. About a hundred 

 yards up stream from the pump-house of Lisdoonvarna, a little cliff 

 of dark shale, some 20 feet in height, and so steep as to overhang in 

 places, rises directly from the stream. Its top is fringed with a 

 thicket of native bushes— Oak, Mountain Ash, and Willow T s — and no 

 introduced plants grow near. But the garden of the doctor's house 

 runs down to the edge of the thicket before mentioned. There is 

 no place in the garden where a plant requiring such special treat- 

 ment could be grown, no relic of the cultivation of rare plants, nor 

 any record of the sojourn in the house of a doctor of botanical 

 tastes. The plant is quite abundant on the wet cliff, which drips in 

 places, but, in the course of half-an-hour's search, was not seen else- 

 where up or down the stream ; our search was, however, very 

 hurried. The surrounding country consists of heavy rough pasture 

 land, with here and there a wet rock bluff or bit of marsh in which 

 the plant might grow. On the evidence, 1 am inclined to admit the 

 plant as native in this station ; if this be so, there can be very little 

 doubt that other stations exist in the district. Should future 

 thorough search fail to reveal other stations, possibly our more 

 cautious botanists may think it well to append a dagger to the 

 record, signifying " possibly introduced " ; but my inquiries failed to 

 elicit any hint of possible introduction. 



