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account of a plant, which in your very valuable En- 

 glish Botany, vol. xi. p. 733, is noticed as not being 

 found in any part of the world but the Isle of Skye. 



In the months of August and September last I 

 undertook a botanical tour through the county of 

 Galway in this kingdom, — my chief intention to ex- 

 amine that part of the county called Cunnamara, a 

 district, I may venture to assert, never examined by 

 any botanist before, although that celebrated and 

 industrious naturalist Llhwyd was in its vicinity 

 about the year 1699. 



Cunnamara has its beauties in many particulars, 

 not only in the eyes of the botanist, but perhaps 

 might engage the attention of the poet and painter; 

 — numerous lofty, craggy, heathy mountains, and 

 lakes ; meandering extended rivers ; hills, bogs, 

 creeks, — and all surged by the Western Ocean ; 

 which nothing less than the elegant descriptive pen 

 of the President of the Linnaean Society could do 

 justice to. 



Among many other rare plants, I met with the 

 one in question, Eriocaulon decangulare, Linn. Sp. 

 PL 129. Mantiss. ed. alt. 167-32/? Phil. Trans, vol. 

 lix. 243. t. 12. Lightf. Scot. 569. Huds. Angl. ed. 

 alt. 414, 415. Nasmythia articulata, Withering, ed. 

 3. 184. Eriocaulon septcmgulare, Ylor. Carolin. 83. 

 Lamarck Encyclop. torn. iii. 276. Joncinelle d6can- 

 gulaire, Eng. Bot. vol. xi. 733. Eriocaulon septan- 

 gulare, Willdenow Sp. PL vol. i. 486. This rare 

 aquatic decorates the edges of all the loughs, great 

 and small, in Cunnamara, and is to be met with in 

 many places in the county of Galway. The generic 



