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IRISH SOCIETIES. 
DUBLIN NATURALISTS' FIELD CLUB. 
Sept. 20. — Excursion to Glenasmole. — In spite of very threatening 
weather a small party assembled at Terenure about 11 o'clock in the 
morning, and proceeded by car to the upper reservoir of the Rathmines 
Waterworks, which was reached soon after mid -day. The afternoon 
unexpectedly proved quite fine, and a few hours were pleasantly spent 
in botanizing round the head of the glen from the old burial ground of 
Saint Ann's up to Castle Kelly. The Spotted Mimulus [Mimulus 
guttatus), a North American alien introduced at Castle Kelly some fifty 
years ago, was found in abundance, and here and there still in flower, 
along the overflows of the stream and in the retaining walls of the catch- 
ment channel which intercepts and carries down to the lower reservoir 
the waters destined to maintain the level of the Dodder river. In these 
walls, too, a Hawkweed [Hieracium umbellatum) appeared in abundance, 
and the peaty margins and parts of the floor of the upper reservoir, laid 
bare over wide areas by the long-continued drought, yielded great .sheets 
of the Water Purslane {Peplis Portula) and the Marsh Cudweed {Giiapha- 
lium uliginosum). Near the old burial ground many fine stocks of the 
Guelder Rose {Viburnum Optiliis) one of our handsomest native shrubs, 
by no means common in Dublin, were found in full fruit. In the " free- 
stone " tracts along the river at Castle Kelly appeared a few plants of 
the Wormwood (Artemsia Absinthium), an alien long e.stablished, though 
nowhere abundant in the upper Dodder valley. Tea was provided about 
4 o'clock at Mrs. Healy's, near Bohernabreena, and an hour's drive thence 
took the party back to the starting-point at Terenure by way of Old 
Bawn and Tallaght. 
