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special favourite. You are aware I was fortunate enough to find, two 

 years ago, a similar plant in the neighbourhood of Newcastle Bear- 

 haven, and you have mentioned to me your having found a like plant 

 in the island of Rathlin, off the north coast of Antrim. It was from 

 this excursion to Connemara that Dr. Wade brought his three little 

 treasures, as he called them, viz. : Phleum alpinum, Agrostis minima 

 and Juncus filiformis. The car stops for dinner at Flynn's Inn, or 

 the half-way-house, a hospitable and comfortable country cottage, well 

 known to visiters to this western region. The distance between 

 Oughterard and Flynn's is but ten miles, and this, as well as the other 

 stages to Clifden, the ardent botanist should by all means walk. On 

 leaving the former place he at once gets into the wild region of moun- 

 tain, lake and bog. At some distance he will have the mountains 

 with him on each side, as also those small lakes so prominent a fea- 

 ture in this western district, and some one or other of which he never 

 loses sight of until he reaches Clifden. In most of these lakes he will 

 find the delicate Lobelia Dortmanna, accompanied by that rai'e plant to 

 England and Scotland, Eriocaulon septangulare, appearing, as some 

 writer fancifully observes, like a West Indian beauty, with her negro 

 slave. His attention will also be drawn, as he passes along, to the pride 

 of Connemara, the beautiful Menziesia polifolia, a plant first made 

 known to the botanical world by the illustrious naturalist Ray, upwards 

 of a hundred years ago. He will also see in abundance the Os- 

 munda regalis, or royal fern. I stopped a day at Flynn's, and made 

 a long iiiarch through the mountains north of the inn, with but little 

 success. By the banks of a mountain stream I found Orobus sylva- 

 ticus, a rare Irish plant. In the neighbourhood of Flynn's you find 

 the Menziesia in great perfection. Here, too, you get splendid speci- 

 mens of Drosera, particularly of D. longifolia, I never before saw 

 such large plants. Pinguicula vulgaris and lusitanica are quite com- 

 mon, and the elegant little Anagallis tenella is to be found running at 

 the bottom of every ditch-bank. In all the surrounding bogs 

 Rhynchospora alba grows in profusion, the white and level heads of 

 which give, in some measure, a relief to the dark, monotonous colour 

 of the peat. Leaving Flynn's, I came to Adams's Inn by the car. This 

 snug little place is about fourteen miles from Flynn's and five fi-om 

 Clifden. The cottage, for such it is, is an important place to the 

 lovers of the angle, being but a short distance from the far-famed lake 

 and river of Ballynahinch, situated too, as it were, under the mag- 

 nificent group of mountains, called the Twelve Pins of Ballabola, it 

 affords the best opportunity of exploring the recesses of these impos- 



