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of the party made the well-knowu excursion, by carriage 

 and boat, through the Gap of Dunloe, returning by the 

 Lakes. I am indebted to Mr. Turubull for the following 

 notes : " On approaching the Gap, we saw several pasture- 

 fields with the striking yellow flowers of Bartsia viscosa, in 

 much the same profusion as we see the Yellow Eattle at 

 home. Farther up, but before we reached the Gap, we 

 observed wet patches of colour near the road, and these 

 consisted chiefly of Hiipericiint elodes, with an edging of 

 Anagallis tenella, forming a lovely and perfect combination 

 of arrangement and colour impossible to reproduce in a 

 garden. All the way up the Gap, almost every crevice 

 of rock had its nest of Saxafraga Geum and S. umbrosa, 

 with several varieties and apparently intermediate forms. 

 S. umhrosa has been incorrectly called ' St. Patrick's 

 Cabbage.' Mr. Colgan, who has paid much attention to 

 the Celtic names of plants, is of opinion that the more 

 correct name would be ' Fox's Cabbage,' and that the 

 mistake has arisen from the similarity of the Celtic words 

 for ' fox ' and ' St. Patrick.' On the stone walls in the 

 Gap, Sedmn album was common, and the foliage of Pingui- 

 cida granclijiora was conspicuous everywhere. The place 

 of the common Gorse was occupied by dwarf clumps of 

 ULex Gallii, with its pale yellow flowers. On the moor 

 beyond the Gap we observed all three species of Droscra in 

 great profusion, and near the same place were clumps of 

 Cladium jamaicense. As we neared the upper lake, we found 

 much Euphorbia hibenia by the roadside. Salmon poachers 

 express the latex from this plant, and stupify the fish by 

 putting it into the streams. In Donegal this Spurge 

 attains its extreme northern limit for Europe. In Britain 

 it has been found only in Xorth Devon. The lioyal fern 

 occurs in great profusion in the neighbourhood of the 

 Lakes." 



While this party were making their round by the Gap 

 of Dunloe, Mr. Evans and Dr. Paul, accompanied and guided 

 by Dr. Scully, spent the forenoon on the lower lake. Powing 

 first to the mouth of the Flesk River, we found — Alisma 

 ranuncHloides, L., in very fine form ; the lovely Walilcnhcrgia 

 hederacca, Reichb. ; Microcala Jiliformis, Hotlin. and Link., 

 found only in the extreme south-west of Ireland ; Bartsia 



