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western part where less planting has been done, have j-ielded 

 Cai'ex strigosa, Veronica montana and Milium effusum, all new 

 to the count}', and Neottia Nidus-avis, one of the finds of the 

 Limerick Field Club, flourishes on the roots of Beech and 

 Laurels. Hieracium vulgatum — the only Hieracium that we 

 have found in the barony besides the ubiquitous//". Pilosella — 

 was gathered at Mount Trenchard on the walls of the kitchen 

 garden, r.nd growing with it was Linaria purpurea^ which has 

 been known in this spot for the last forty years. Asplenium 

 marinum was at one time abundant on the old sea-wall, but 

 this was swept away in a storm some years ago, and since the 

 new wall was built it has entirely disappeared. The only spot 

 in which it is now known to occur in the whole county is a 

 small dark cave on the shore below Ardanoir, where it grows 

 with the beautiful Asplenium Adiantum-nigrum var. acutum. 

 Where the White River joins the Shannon at Loghill the shore 

 for some distance is low and swampy, and several of the salt 

 marsh plants re-appear. Some of these, Glaux, Sea Aster, Sea 

 Lavender, Carex extensa, &c, have travelled up the river-banks 

 for some distance, and are found in the swampy saline 

 meadows within reach of the tide, but gradually dis- 

 appear as these pass into the inland non-saline meadows. 

 About a mile up on the right bank there are the 

 remains of an old mill, and in the meadows just below it 

 Mentha rottmdifolia, M. piperita, and Tanacetum vulgare have 

 taken possession of the place, and are quite at home among 

 Pulica?ia dysent erica, /uncus acutiflorus, and huge tussocks of 

 Caiex paniculata. 



The banks of this river have also yielded several rare roses — 

 Rosa hibernica var. glabra, Rosa involuta and Rosa obtusifolia 

 var. fro?idosa. 



Another rose of interest — Rosa stylosa, var. systyla — was col- 

 lected in this western part of the barony. From Loghill to Tar- 

 bet the shore is mostly low and shingly, and bordered with occa- 

 sional stretches of scrub composed chiefly of Hazel, Sloe, 

 Rowan, Holly, and Spindle-tree. On the edges of one of these, 

 near Clare View, we gathered some fine specimens of Rosa 

 stylosa t va.r. systyla, growing in absolutely native surroundings. 

 We have it also from two other places along the shore, and 



