208 TRANSACTIONS, NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY OF GLASGOW. 



from our own. In the smaller sheets of water called "Lakes," and 

 thus distinguished from the Loughs or larger sheets, we saw 

 Cladium Jamaicense, Crantz., and on the road, just after leaving 

 the Fishery, patches of Boretta Cantahrica, O. Kuntze. St. 

 Dabeoc's Heath (Dabeocia polifolia, Don) is well known to the 

 natives but thought little about; however, to one who had never 

 seen its long spikes of large and beautiful flowers projecting far 

 above the sheltering whin, the sight came as a delightful surprise. 

 E. Mackaii, Hook., is confined to a few yards, but Dabeocia 

 polifolia covers as many miles, not in breadth, but in length. E. 

 mediterranea, Linn., grows on the hill behind Roundstone, but it 

 flowers in May, and so far as the country is concerned I would 

 advise no one to go there. . . . There are lakes all around Clifden, 

 but on the hills there are deep pools in which fine plants of 

 Eriocaidon septangulare, With., are got, the deeper the water the 

 larger the plant. . . . On the rocks south of Clifden we get 

 Saxifraga umbrosa, Linn., and on the walls Ceterach officinarum, 

 Willd., while on the old Galway road Osmunda regalis, Linn., is 

 the common roadside fern. In a salt marsh at Galway I could 

 not think where a strong pungent smell came from till I came 

 on a large patch of Coronopus didymus, Sm. I have gathered it 

 in " Clyde " as a rubbish-heap plant, where it had Uttle or no smell, 

 but here it is in its native soil, and you feel it in all its vigour. C. 

 Ruellii, All., is also common. Proceeding up the River Corrib, I 

 came across Galium palustre, Linn, a plant we don't often meet in 

 "Clyde," as it is the var. Witheringii we mostly see. Blackstonia 

 per/oliaia, Huds.. is common on the banks. The long spikes of 

 Scrophidaria aquatica, Linn., had a great appearance. There was 

 a curious form of Car ex hirta, Linn., and C. JUifoitnis, Linn., was 

 everywhere. I came across a curious umbellifer, which turned 

 out to be Apium nodiflorum, Reichb. It was over three feet in 

 height, and compared with our small plants which creep over the 

 marshy bank these are giants. For the number and variety of 

 plants a visit to Galway and Connemara is well repaid." 



Mr. Robert Henderson read a paper on '■ Additions to the 

 Records of Clyde Diptera " (see page 14:8). 



Mr. James Whitton, Superintendent of Parks, Glasgow, sub- 

 mitted his " Meteorological Notes and Eemarks upon the Weather 

 during the year 1903, with its general efEects upon Vegetation " 

 (see page 154). 



