18 THE BOTANY OF THE BARROW. 



Ebulus, and Anthriscus vulgaris occurred. A little below, a rare 

 grass, Festuca loliacea, was met with in rich meadows near the 

 water's edge, on the right bank : it is a form of F. pmtensis. 

 Along here the river is lovely, winding along in bold sweeps 

 in a richly wooded country. About a mile above Bagenals-town, 

 where I stopped for the night, I gathered Stellaria rjlauca again, 

 and opposite the village the great water dock [Humex llijdro- 

 lapntliwii). 



On the 26th I followed the river by the right bank from Bagenals- 

 town to New Eoss. A little way past Bagenals-town C/ucruphtjUiim 

 temulum is abundant below the bridge. Lijsimachia vub/aris, Poa 

 aquutica, Carex acuta, C paludosa, Myriophylliim verticillatum, and 

 the Stellaria and Rhdwx above mentioned occurred to Gores Bridge. 

 Between Gores Bridge and Ballytegelea Bridge Thalictrum majiis, 

 Malva moschata, Euonymus europcRus, may be mentioned, and past the 

 bridge Nasturtium amphibium and N. sylvestre were seen again. 

 Here I passed through Borris demesne, still keeping the right 

 bank. In the woods by the water's edge the interesting species were 

 Crepis paludosa, (Fnanthe crocata, and Milium efusum. In these 

 woods were a number of jays, which are scarce birds in Ireland. 

 A little below Borris I gathered in a thicket Carex hdvigata, Habcnaria 

 chlorantha ; Carex fiilva and Rumex and Stellaria still occur. Thalic- 

 trum majus also turned up again, and here for the first time along 

 the Barrow Scrophularia aquatica appeared. At Graigueuamanagh, 

 on the river wall on the right bank, Hieracium sahaudum grows. 

 Here I rested for afternoon tea, and following the same bank I 

 came in for some very severe work, especially along the wooded 

 cliffs opposite St. Mullins. The tide reaches as far as St. MuUins 

 and some species speedily disappear or keep well above the bed of 

 the stream. In the water, however, (Fnanthe Phellandrium, Alisma 

 Plavtaijo, and Poa aquatica still hold their own. (Fnanthe crocata 

 becomes more abundant, as does also Elodea cafiadensis, since the 

 water is more stagnant. The first salt-marsh plant to appear is 

 Scirpus maritimus. Lower down Carex riparia is very abundant. 

 In the thicket opposite St. Mullins Carex pendula and Milium 

 efusum both grow, the former beautiful species being very thinly 

 distributed in Ireland. The later part of this days' work was done 

 in the dusk, and somewhere about Carranvor I had to leave the 

 river and got completely bewildered as to my whereabouts, so that 

 I have little to say about the vegetation of the lower reaches, which 

 are of the nature of an estuary. Just here the Nore flows in, and 

 at New Ross the two streams in union form a glorious prospect. 

 Near New Ross I observed Fchium. vuhjare, Dipsacus sijlcestris, and 

 Scrophularia aquatica, along the road to Waterford. The remainder 

 of this herborization belongs to my report on the Cummeragh 

 Mountains. 



