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AJuga pyramidal Is, L. — The Irish stations for this northern and 

 sub-alpine species (all in Clare) are fully set out in "Cybele" 

 (ed. II.). Ballyryau (locally pronounced Ballyreeri) is the townland 

 in which Poulsallagh (a cave or gully on the sea-shore) is situated, 

 so the stations reduce to two — the Great Island of Aran (where Dr. 

 Moore found it in 1854 and Mr. Colgan in 1892), and Poulsallagh 

 (F. J. Foot, 1864; Dr. Leitch, 1893; P. B. O'Kelly, 1894). Under 

 Mr. O'Kelly 's guidance, we found it in the latter station, which lies 

 eight miles south-west of Black Head, growing on a little limestone 

 bluff by the roadside, a quarter of a mile north of Poulsallagh, and 

 already out of flower. 



An unexpected new station turned up on our last evening in 

 Connemara, when I discovered it in some abundance on Bunowen 

 Hill, the Tertiary volcanic neck which forms a conspicuous land- 

 mark over all the featureless country lying south of Clifden and west 

 of Roundstone. It grew here in short turf, chiefly round the edges 

 of rocks, and had its headquarters half-way up the south-east side of 

 the hill, about 100 feet elevation. 



Neotlnea Intacta, Reich. — The ground all about the place where my 

 wife found one specimen last year, between Dog's Bay and Roundstone 

 was again very closely grazed, even the abundant Orchis mascula 

 being almost entirely eaten down, and we failed to find further 

 specimens, though no doubt such exist. We had better luck on the 

 peninsula south of Dog's Bay, where the sheep had spared one 

 specimen. As the interesting calcicole group (including Arabis 

 ciliata and Euphrasia Salisburgensis) which grows at Dog's Bay, occurs 

 also on the wild peninsula west of Ballyconneely (as reported last 

 year), we searched this latter place, and found three stations for the 

 Neotinea, in spite of very close grazing — a good colony threequarters 

 of a mile north of Lough Auaserd, a second colony a quarter of a 

 mile south-west of the first, and a single plant at the sand-invaded 

 village of Silverhill, far to the south-west. The first and third 

 stations are close to calcareous sea sands, but the second lies inland 

 on light peaty soil. 



Carex Pseudo-cyperus, L,.--Roadside ditch near Bunow r en Castle, 

 W. Galway. 



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