igri- Praeger. — Notes 071 the Flora of Inhhbofin. 167 



bringing in a large number of additional plants. The 

 sand-dunes and shores which terminate the valley to the 

 eastward also yield their quota, and the damp meadows 

 which continue northward round the bay at Cloonamore 

 form good ground, as does also the western termination of 

 the valley, where it drops amid rocky scarps into the Inner 

 Harbour. 



It was in the places just enumerated that the majority of 

 the additions to the flora were found. Bofin contains 

 nowhere any of the patches of scrub such as occur on Clare 

 Island and on Turk, but the rocky scarps facing north 

 take the place of these ; here grow the only trees on the 

 island — a few bushes of Poplar and Rowan a couple of feet 

 in height — and also the representatives of the woodland 

 flora, and other shade plants, to which were now added 

 Ranunculus Ficaria, Cardamine flexuosa, Fragaria vesca, 

 Lysimachia nemorum, Luzula maxima, Hymcnophyllum 

 unilaterale. The sheltered grounds about Church Lake 

 yielded their quota of additions to the flora, including 

 Caltha palustris, (Enanthe crocata, Veronica sciitellata, 

 Bartsia viscosa, Hahcnaria chloroleuca, Sparganium ramosum, 

 Scirpus lacustris. Where the influence of the sand made 

 itself felt on the slopes north of this lake, making a soil 

 light and slightly calcareous, the new plants included 

 Arabis ciliata, Trifolium medium, T. procumhens, Vicia 

 hirsuta, Mihusa Cynapium, Crepis virens, Convolvulus 

 arvensis, Ophrys apifera, Hahcnnna viridis, Ophioglossum 

 vulgatum, and a dry -built wall near by yielded Cetcrach 

 officinarum. The sands below these banks added 

 Antennaria dioica, Eryngium maritimum. Beta maritima, 

 and Polvsonum Raii to the flora. The shores of the 

 brackish Lough Bofin supplied Bidens tripartita, Atriplex 

 hastata, Ruppia rostellata, Scirpus mnritimus ; and further 

 additions to the halophile section were supplied by the 

 shores of Bofin Harbour, in the shape of Cochlcaria ofici- 

 nalis, Sagina maritima, Juncus ynaritimits, Triglochin mari- 

 timum, Glyceria maritima. The waysides at that place, which 

 forms the commercial centre of the island, yielded some 

 additional introduced plants, such as Malva rotundifolia, 

 Inula Helenium, Matricaria discoidea. The northern 



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