244 SCOTTISH ALPINE BOTANICAL CLUB.  [Szss. rxar. 
the opposite side of the lake ; here Lastrwa wmula was found 
in great quantity and in great beauty, plants with fronds 
nearly 3 feet high being found; on the roadside leading to 
the wood a few plants of Lastrea monlana were found, also 
a large clump of Lomaria Spicant with all the fronds caudate, 
and in a dyke some plants of Asplenium Trichomanes with the 
tips of the fronds all more or less fingered. 
Sunday forenoon, the 12th of August, was spent quietly in 
the neighbourhood of the hotel. In the afternoon a visit 
was paid to the marble quarry on the hillside about half a 
mile away to the north of the hotel, where large blocks oi 
the well-known green-coloured Connemara marble were seen. 
During the walk home some forms of Utricularia were 
gathered, also a plant of rica cinerea with white flowers. 
This was the finest day experienced during the visit, all the 
others having been spoiled by heavy showers of rain at 
intervals. The whole district is exceptionally barren and 
wild, and farming operations appeared to be carried on in 
a most primitive style. Most of the country consists of 
either bog, stone, or water, and no attempt whatever seems 
to be made to render the heath land more suitable for 
grazing purposes by cutting open sheep drains, such as are 
seen in this country. The absence of sheep was conspicuous. 
On Monday morning, the 13th August, the party left Recess 
by an early train, and on reaching Galway put up at the 
Railway Station Hotel, a large but poorly appointed building. 
Four of the members left Galway by steamer at 11 o'clock for 
Ballyvaughan, in order to spend the day with Mr. P. B. 
O’Kelly in visiting the limestone formation in this district 
of County Clare. Mr. O’Kelly met the party on the quay 
and drove them to his nursery, about a mile and a half out 
of the village, on the way to Lisdoonvarna. Here a large 
and varied collection of both British and foreign shrubs and 
herbaceous plants was seen, also many varietal forms of 
British ferns, some of which have been found by Mr. O’Kelly 
himself in the neighbourhood. 
The party, on the way back to Ballyvaughan, were con- 
ducted by Mr. O’Kelly along the base of the limestone hill to 
the east of the village, where he was able to point out some 
rare and interesting plants, as the following list will show :— 
Arum maculatum, Carlina vulgaris, Centaurea Sceabiosa, 
