Jan. 1907.] SCOTTISH ALPINE BOTANICAL CLUB. 245_ 
Chlora perfoliata, Dryas octopetala, Euphorbia Peplus, Gentiana 
Amarella, Gentiana verna, Geranium rotundifolium, Origanum 
vulgare, Rosa spinosissima, Sambucus Ebulus, Samolus Valer- 
andi, Veronica polita, Verbena officinalis. 
Of the above, Dryas was seen in great quantity, both in 
flower and in fruit, and numerous plants of Gentiana verna 
were got, and Sambucus Hbulus was growing in a large mass 
within fifty yards of the village (Ballyvaughan). 
After a most excellent tea at Kerin’s Hotel, the long drive 
was commenced on an outside car to the nearest station at 
Ardrahan, fifteen miles distant. The route for the first half 
of the journey led through a series of valleys, bordered on 
each side by high limestone hills with very little vegeta- 
tion on them—indeed the highest portions of them looked 
absolutely bare. 
The party (six in all) much regretted that they had been 
unable to secure sufficient accommodation in Mr. Kerin’s 
Hotel, in order to spend a few days in this most interesting 
district, as the hotel, though small, was clean, and a great 
contrast in this respect to the Railway Hotel, Galway. As 
there are two other hotels in Ballyvaughan, it would have 
been easy for the whole party to have found accommodation, 
but the information given beforehand was that there was 
only one hotel in the town. 
The party journeyed by rail from Ardrahan via Athenry 
to Galway, which was reached about 9 o’clock. 
Owing to the high wind and heavy rain that fell in the 
morning, two members of the party, who did not care to 
risk the crossing by steamer or in getting wet either at 
Ballyvaughan or during the long drive to the station at night, 
went by rail from Galway to Oughterard, in order to botanise 
on the shore of Loch Corrib, a mile or two from the town. 
There the following plants were found :—Alisma ranun- 
culoides, Asplenium Trichomanes var. cristatum, Hottonia 
palustris, Mentha aquatica var. hirsuta, Sparganium simplex, 
Viricularia sp. 
On Tuesday the 14th the party drove about two and a half 
miles along the road to Menlough, and spent the day among the 
limestone ridges to the north of the town of Galway and on 
the shore at the south-east end of Lough Corrib. These ridges 
are mostly flat, but are intersected in all directions by hollows 
