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having a full view of the Charnwood Forest Hills. Churchill 

 Babington and I walked as far as the nearer part of the forest, and 

 he showed me Alyssum calycinum growing in a field of clover, and 

 Medicago lupulina. Mr. A. Bloxam dined at my cousin's. 



June 21. A wet day. I fished in the hot water from a steam 

 engine of a coal mine, and found plenty of Hydroperus geminus. 



June 23. We went to Grace Dieu and hunted some water, but 

 with bad success. Also botanized in a fine wood in which grows 

 Pulmonaria officinalis (did not find it) and Hieracium paludosum, etc. 

 At Grace Dieu are the ruins of a small abbey ; only a few walls 

 remain. 



June 24. We walked to the old reservoir of the canal. It is 

 now nearly dry, being only a rather wet bog. About twenty-five 

 years since the lofty bank burst, and it has never been repaired. 

 Saw near to its mouth Nasturtium, and not far down the stream, on 

 rubbish from the old bank, Moenchia ereda, etc. 



June 27. To Shrewsbury. — June 29. By coach to Bangor. 



June 30. By coach to Conway, and car to Llandudno. Found 

 Helianthemum canum on the rocks above the village; Cotoneaster 

 vulgaris on rocks above a house called " Tyn-y-Coed " ; on the 

 sands Taraxicum levigatum. 



July 1. Went to the Little Orme's Head and found Sedum 

 Forsterianum (1) on the eastern side ; in corn near the same spot 

 Fedia auricula ; in a wet field between the two Heads plenty of 

 Lathyrus palustris ; and on the sea-side towards Conway Convolvulus 

 Soldanella. 



July 2. To Holyhead, and passed over by the packet to Dublin, 

 sailing at 11.15. Arrived at Kingstown at 6.5 a.m. 



July 5. As it was Trinity College Commemoration I went to 

 be admitted to my M.A. degree. 



Jtdy 6. Breakfasted with Mr. Mackay, and were joined by a 

 gentleman from Potsdam of the name of Hecht. He proved a very 

 pleasant man and was an agreeable companion for the day's trip to 

 Powerscourt. We went by Donnybrook, Dundrum, Killgobbin, 

 and Enniskerry. The gardens and grounds of Powerscourt are 

 very fine. . . The waterfall was nearly dry, but the amphitheatre 

 of wooded hills about it is quite worth a visit. By the fall I 

 gathered Aspidium Thelypteris, and on a bank on the right hand 

 side of the stream Aspidium dumetorum. We afterwards obtained 

 A. angidare. Ee turned by Bray to Dublin. 



Jidy 8. Started, in company with Mr. Mackay and Mr. Whitla, 

 for a trip in the co. Wicklow. We went by Enniskerry, near which 

 we found a variety of the Crataegus oxyacantha with the petals red 

 and permanent upon the fruit, also plenty of Epipactis palustris. 

 Near Powerscourt saw Aspidium angulare and Hypericum calycinum. 



